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Support : eNewsletters : Training Updates : Issue 1, February 2011

Training Updates

From the Editor

Dialog wishes you a happy and prosperous 2011. This year promises to be another one of innovation for Dialog. ProQuest Dialog™ launched in September 2010 and scientific and technical content and new features continue to increase. Watch for intellectual property content next. If you haven't joined Dialog Twitter or its new Facebook site make this one of your new year's resolutions.

Our goal for 2011 is to help you fully develop your research expertise by providing a wide array of training resources incorporating best practices for learning and development including:

  • Live, instructor-led Webinars focusing on the content, features and functionality of both the new ProQuest Dialog and legacy Dialog
  • Expert insights into effective research using the wide range of scientific, intellectual property and business content available
  • Multiple options for self-paced learning including pre-recorded modules, practice exercises and in-depth documentation
  • Opportunities for you to contribute your ideas, ask questions of the experts and more through Twitter, Facebook and a new Expert Insights from Dialog Global Customer Support blog coming soon.

Read more in this issue about sessions on ProQuest Dialog and legacy Dialog, documentation and new self-paced training modules. Learn about our new Facebook site. Check the search tips and register for a course in a subject of your choice.

NEW: ProQuest Dialog training

Have you been curious about the new ProQuest Dialog but haven't had time to learn what it's all about? With nine subject categories now on ProQuest Dialog, content encompasses Energy & Environment, Food & Agriculture, Engineering and Aerospace & Defense, to name some. With sources like Ei Compendex®, Inspec®, The Lancet®, IMS and Adis databases, you will want to learn more about the databases and how to use them on ProQuest Dialog.

Online training sessions

Join an online session with one of our expert trainers. Introduction to ProQuest Dialog provides instruction on the key features and functionality of the new service. Discover how to search for, find, use and share your research results, and learn where to access additional support including tutorials, help pages and documentation. A broad range of pharmaceutical, biomedical and engineering content is now available, and the complete collection of intellectual property and business content will be added in future releases. The 60-minute session covers:

  • Content coverage and database selection
  • Advanced and precision search features
  • Reviewing search results — faceted search options, document preview and more
  • Using new tools and features — translation, citation and post-processing
  • My Research
  • Tagging and shared lists.

Sessions are available February 17 and 24. Register now!

ProQuest Dialog Web site

ProQuest Dialog Customer Support siteIf you haven't been to the ProQuest Dialog customer Web site, click here right now! Content from the world's most authoritative publishers and the tools to search it with speed and precision — ProQuest Dialog is your resource for information to drive innovation. To get started, go to the Fast Start Guide. Pursue the content list and descriptions and click some of the self-paced modules to review Basic Search, Advanced Search and the new My Research. Also available are content modules to view ProQuest Dialog features in your favorite subject area. A Quick Reference Card (QRC) will help you get started. And, view the FAQs for details about this new service.

Visit us on Facebook!

What's happening in the world of social media?

  • Explosive growth
  • 88% of marketers to use social media by 2012
  • Facebook growing
  • Worldwide usage of social media increasing
  • Mobile social network usage predicted to more than double between 2010 and 2015.

Facebook screenshotTwitter, Facebook, blogs and other social media are changing the way we view the world, seek information and communicate with our colleagues, customers and friends. Throughout Dialog's long history our goal has been to stay connected to and to support our customers. We want to continue to expand the deep relationships we have developed through responsive and immediate customer contact. In 2009, Dialog joined Twitter. We have now expanded our digital footprint with a new Facebook site and a Dialog blog coming soon.

You'll be able to keep up to date with Dialog new products, online training classes, self-paced modules, new documentation and more. And, do communicate with us: tell us what you want to know, ask questions and interact with Dialog experts. Join Twitter or Like Dialog Facebook and watch for the new Dialog blog!

Source: Social Media Outlook for 2011

Scheduled Training Courses

Mark your calendar: Instructor-led Web-based courses

Expand your search skills and knowledge of Dialog whatever your skill level—novice to power searcher. Attend Dialog's live, Web-based training offered worldwide and in different languages.

  • Discover: Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, Technical
    • Cited Reference Searching in SciSearch® Files on February 16
    • Essential Tools for Engineering Research on Dialog on March 9

  • Validate: Patents
    • Finding Patent and Literature Citations in Patent Files on February 23
    • Using Trademarks for Competitive Intelligence on February 23

  • Market: Business and News
    • Finding Market Intelligence Information on February 17
    • Using SIC, NAICS and other industry codes in the business files on Dialog on February 24

  • Register for Introduction to ProQuest Dialog on February 17 and 24 to learn more about ProQuest Dialog

Check the Training Web site for more courses offered in March.

Note: Online courses are also offered in French and German. Just email the instructors to register.

Best in training: Developing Patent Research Expertise course series

This series offers you the best in training as demonstrated by research studies: no one-shot inoculation, interactivity with the material, instructor and other learners and reinforcement of the principles you have learned through practice.

    "I am really learning a lot from your classes!"

    "Another great session — I learned a lot and you validated a lot of the things I already do and didn't realize I know!"

These are a few of the comments from participants in our new four-part "Developing Patent Research Expertise on Dialog" series. Incorporating live search demonstrations, review of frequently-asked questions, discussion and practice exercises, the goal of this series is to provide a richer learning experience than is possible in a typical one-hour Webinar. With a goal of continually improving the seminar, future sessions will incorporate use of social media as well as even more opportunities for interactivity and practice. Stay tuned for announcements of similar multi-part series in other scientific and business content areas in the coming months!

Register for Developing Patent Research Expertise on March 10, 17, 24, & 31 at 12:00pm EST

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Documentation

To learn about the ProQuest Dialog exciting new features, review some of the self-paced 10-minute At a Glance modules on the ProQuest Dialog customer site. Some of the latest modules include:

  • Limiting with the date slider
  • On the spot translation
  • Citation look up
  • Left-hand truncation
  • Set searching

Watch for modules demonstrating more new features to come!


Dialog Search Techniques

Locate conference proceedings in PASCAL

Are you looking for conference information? Many files on Dialog have specialized fields to search conferences and PASCAL (File 144) is no exception. Check the Bluesheet to see if the database has fields for Conference Title (CT=), Conference Location (CL=) and Conference Year (CY=). The Conference Title and Conference Location fields are often Word-indexed, which means you search the title word by word with proximity connectors. The advantage to this is you can enter as much as you know of the title and successfully find the conference of interest. The trick to finding conference titles is to SELECT CT=(TERM(S)TERM(S)TERM). Note the use of parentheses around the search string. The proximity connector (S) for SAME paragraph or subfield is shown, but you can use any proximity operator (e.g., 3N or (W) etc.).

Suppose you know of an international symposium on atomic level characterization of new materials and devices, but you're not sure of the exact title. You know the symposium took place in Hawaii in 2009. You hope to find abstracts from the conference proceedings. View the "Command Summary."


ProQuest Dialog Search Techniques

Take advantage of ProQuest Dialog's value-added features — RANK included

Facebook screenshotProQuest Dialog™ has built in RANK to help you analyze your retrieval. This application shows how to conduct a search in PASCAL to determine current trends in nanotechnology in all aspects of science and browse top journals containing articles on the topic by writers affiliated from a specific country.

In PASCAL, click Advanced search. Query lines appear, with drop-down lists for fields to the right. Enter nano* in the top query line and choose Classification — CC as the field qualifier. In the second line, enter germany and choose Author affiliation — AF as the field qualifier. Limit retrieval to records published within the last three months. Click Search.

Facebook screenshotResults appear, showing your search syntax. Browse the RANKed lists of journals (Publication Title), and click More options.

Journal names appear RANKed by number of retrieved records. You can check off boxes to include or exclude titles, or simply browse the list.

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In PASCAL, you can browse Subject terms, Classification Names, Document types, language and more.

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Command Summary

B 144
s ct=(symposium(s)atomic(s)
material?(s)device?)
s s1 and cl=Hawaii
s s2 and cy=2009
s3/abs arrowLIMIT to only those records with abstracts 
t s6/9/1

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