Effektiv recherchieren – Web of Science und Scopus

Event of ETH Library: Introduction to the use of the literature data bases Web of Science and Scopus

Registration required

This course is held in German.

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Content

• Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus
• Search strategies
• Subject-based searches
• Searching by author
• Citation analysis
• Personalization
• Practical exercises

Aim

At the end of the course you are able to

• structure your search reasonably by using Boolean operators, truncations and phrase searching.
• analyze the relevance of your results and to find further relevant hits by tracing citations.
• combine and organize search queries in the search history.
• identify helpful information in an author`s profile.

Target audience

• Students on Bachelor's and Master's courses with some previous knowledge of searching in databases
• Members of ETH Zurich
• Anyone with an interest in science