LibraryInfo Blog @ IISER Thiruvananthapuram: February 2022

IISER Thiruvananthapuram Library wins American Chemical Society's Highest Usage Award-2021

Central Library, IISER Thiruvananthapuram has been awarded the '2021 Highest Usage Award' for the American Chemical Society Journals in the IISERs category.

It was announced in the ACS South India Virtual Summit held on 24.Nov 2021

Trial access to the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal

Free trial access to the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal published by the EDP Sciences has been made available till 31.03.2022. Visit https://www.aanda.org/ to access this journal.

All are requested to kindly make use of this facility.

Academic Profiling of Students using ORCID iD

In the scientific world, it is important to uniquely identify and distinguish one from every other researcher, using various academic profiles like ORCID.

ORCID iD will be required by the publishers when one submits articles for publication in journals, and to be used by peers and prospective employers/educational institutions, since it will be showcasing the academic profile including publications, experience, etc.

You may find more information about ORCID, how to create, its use and benefit from these sample videos: Video 1; Video 2

Students are requested to create their own ORCID iD from https://orcid.org/ and inform the library latest by 26th February 2022.

Web of Science Training & Certification Program 2022

This is a series of free WebEx trainings being conducted by the Clarivate product experts on various aspects of the Web of Science platform to support academic institutions with effective scientific discovery and writing.

Program Schedule

Session 1 | Monday, 21 February 2022 at 11:00AM (India Time)
Session 2 | Tuesday, 22 February 2022 at 11:00AM (India Time)
Session 3 | Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 11:00AM (India Time)

Please note that we would include examples from STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics), SSH (Social sciences and humanities) and management disciplines during the training program.

Additional note

A quiz will be conducted for participants that have attended all the 3 webinars. Only attendees that score >=70% in the quiz will be given a certificate.
Top 10 scorers will be eligible to receive attractive Clarivate branded gifts. In case of a tie, Clarivate will use lucky draw as appropriate.

Web of Science Training & Certification Program 2022