Quality Mark of Thomson Reuters

12:07, December 6, 2013

University staff studies the data base Web of Science and resources of Thomson Reuters

Certification program on Web of Knowledge organized by Thomson Reuters has just finished at Ural Federal University. UrFU became the second university in Russia and CIS, where such program was realized. The certification of university staff was conducted by the information resources experts of Thomson Reuters: Valentin Bogorov and Sergey Paramonov.

Certification on Web of Knowledge is a unique program of profound training in operating Web of Science data base and information resources of Thomson Reuters, connected to it. Almost all institutes of the university sent its representatives to the seminar: Graduate School of Economics and Management, Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship, Institute of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Institute of Physical Education, Sport and Youth Policy, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Ural Power Engineering Institute, and other institutes.  The staff of the Regional Scientific Library had visited this seminar too.

For two days the participants of the seminar studied Web of Science data base, Journal Citation Reports, Researcher ID and EndNote Basic information tools and mastered application of them. As a result all of the participants got Thomson Reuters certificates, which prove their qualification and right to teach and consult about Thomson Reuters resources for scientific purposes. The certification program was concluded by the seminar “Evaluation of University Scientific Activity with the use of InCites: revelation of potential development”.