Support : eNewsletters : Training Updates : Issue 5, September 2012

This issue of Training Updates describes courses—short 15-minute sessions on ProQuest Dialog™, Back to Basic courses to get you started searching Dialog or provide a review of your techniques and a preview of Advanced Tools courses to come. Take a look at the newly structured Dialog Website and our Cut, Paste and Send section.  Register for the courses, check out new instructional materials, and review the tips and techniques.

What’s New

Calling all researchers

Have you stopped by the Dialog Website lately? If not, you haven’t seen the new look, and most important, an easier way to find what you are looking for.

Whether you’re a biomedical or pharmaceutical researcher looking for information on the drug pipeline, a searcher needing electrical engineering or technology data or a researcher tracking patents or prior art, just click your area of research needs then the picture link to go to a page full of support materials, Chronolog articles, content information, training and more.

NEW: CUT/PASTE/SEND: Help for end users

ProQuest Dialog makes it easy to get great answers. Find useful help information for your ProQuest Dialog search in the Support Center covering a wide range of topics such as:

• What's new in the latest release
• Features and functionality
• Databases and content
• Search tips and tricks
• Frequently asked questions
• And more!

Just cut and paste the following tip and it’s ready to send to your users!

The ProQuest Dialog Support Center — A Hidden Resource

Search the Support Center using one of four easy methods.

• Home Tab — Enter your search terms into the Find Help box and click   to search. From the All Results list, click a title of interest.
• Browse Tab — Browse all articles in the knowledgebase and click a category of interest to view a list of titles.
• FAQ Tab — Review a list of frequently asked questions organized into general categories. Click a question of interest to access the article answering the question.
• ProSheet Look Up Tab — Access information about a database of interest by clicking the relevant View ProSheet link.

Review the You Tube video to see the four methods to search Support Center.

Another Cut, Paste, Send Tip: To help your users retrieve full text in Open Access journals in ProQuest Dialog, just cut, paste and send this tip to your searchers Locating full text in Open Access sources.

Featured ProQuest Dialog and Dialog Courses

Register for one of our many complimentary online webinars presented by our experienced training staff and expand your search expertise on ProQuest Dialog and Dialog.

Have your morning coffee with Dialog!

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and take 15 minutes to attend one of Dialog’s short trainings in English, German or French. Learn how to find adverse effects of a drug, search an engineering topic, locate market share on a drug and many more. In just 15 minutes find the databases to search and watch a Dialog expert conduct the step-by-step search in ProQuest Dialog. Now you’re ready to try the search yourself!

Get started with ProQuest Dialog

New ProQuest Dialog users and those starting to search the service—try some of the following courses to learn about the databases, post-processing tools, limit options and more in this easy-to-use interface. Sign up now!

• Introduction to the New ProQuest Dialog Service
• Developing ProQuest Dialog Search Expertise
• Researching the Business of Science on ProQuest Dialog
• Working With Your ProQuest Dialog Results — Output, Post-Processing, Alerting Options and More

Advance Your Dialog Research Skills in October!

After providing a month of “Back to Basics” sessions for Classic Dialog searchers, our team of expert Information Consultants is back in October with a focus on advanced topics to help you further develop your research expertise. Whether you’re a new or experienced searcher, this month’s slate of Webinars is designed for you! Register for a wide range of Classic Dialog Webinars from our Developing Classic Dialog Search Expertise training schedule including:

• Demystifying Trade on Dialog: Trade Names, Trademarks, Trade Dress, & Trade Secrets (Oct 4) — Clarify industry terms and use proven methods for locating trade and market intelligence information on Dialog in business, news and trademark files.
• Finding Expert Witnesses on Dialog (Oct 11) — Identify techniques for locating individuals with proven expertise in a scientific or technical discipline and for creating profiles of potential experts.
• Locating Competitive Intelligence with Derwent World Patents Index^® (File 351) and PCI (File 342) (Oct 18) — Review applications for finding information about new product development and potential competitors, in the Derwent patent files on Dialog.
• Finding Market Intelligence Information on Dialog (Oct 24) — Focus on techniques for developing market overviews, identifying new technologies, and finding market trends and projections in the business and news files on Dialog.
• Creating Strategies for Tracking Adverse Drug Effects (Oct 30) — Learn how to create effective SearchSaves and Alert strategies to track possible adverse effects of specific drugs.

Reminder: Missed a class? View a recorded Webinar for ProQuest Dialog and Dialog in the Event Recordings section.

Tips and Techniques

“Like” if you remember ASAF, Fax On-Demand

Have you noticed the prompts by your friends in social media to “Like” if you remember x?  Usually it’s a picture of a rotary-dial telephone or a Studebaker automobile or a 45-rpm record player, and you can click “Like” if you used it way back when. As a long-time Dialog searcher, you could click “Like” if you remember ASAF, our free, automated fax on-demand service. You might recall dialing a toll-free number, punching in the index number of the search aid you wanted faxed to you, and within seconds your fax machine rang and Dialog delivered a how-to-search recipe.

Forward to 2012, http://support.dialog.com/howdoi.

Need to know how to search for disease statistics? Are you trying to remember how to find cited references?  Do you want to find a complete patent family using Derwent World Patents Index^® or INPADOC? Print out a How Do I search solution.

Over the years, Dialog’s Knowledge Center subject experts have created step-by-step instructions on how to find the most-requested information on Dialog. Take advantage of the more than 100 one-page explanations for researching topics in business, patents, biomedical, pharmaceutical and engineering, as well as trademarks and copyrights.

Find experts fast on ProQuest Dialog

Just as the How Do I...? series shows how to search for specific topics on Dialog, so too the ProQuest Dialog Search Solutions supply concise, step-by-step instructions to find specific answers on ProQuest Dialog. Click the Training tab on the ProQuest Dialog Customer Information Website. Scroll down to Search Solutions. Open Search for an expert in an engineering field.

The Search Solution explains how to construct a search in Advanced Search for articles on earthquakes with the goal of finding experts. The answer lies in “Narrow results by” on the right-hand panel of the search Results page. Click Author to build a comprehensive list of authors who wrote about the topic.

The databases in ProQuest Dialog that have the broadest coverage of geophysical science are Ei Compendex^®, GeoRef, Inspec^®, SciSearch^®: A Cited Reference Science Database and TULSA™ (Petroleum Abstracts).

COMMAND SUMMARY — ADVANCED SEARCH

EARTHQUAKE — QUALIFY TO SUBJECT (SU)
AND
FAULT OR FOLD — QUALIFY TO SUBJECT (SU)
AND
SEISM[*5]

PUBLICATION DATE — AFTER 2005

Tip: seism[*5] means allow five trailing characters after the root stem “seism”.

The results page shows how many records fit the search criteria and provides additional ways to narrow searches. You want to generate a list of top experts in the field.  In the Narrow results by column on the right panel, click the plus sign next to Author; then click More options.

In the pop-up box check boxes to include or exclude authors to select specific authors. You can also run a new search just on those authors to see what else they published, and you can click Save list to download and save the author list in Excel, PDF, HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF).

Note: To narrow the search by top authors, check the boxes for the authors with the highest count, and click Narrow my results. See the Search Solution “Search for an expert in an engineering field”.

Save the list as an Excel spreadsheet. Now you have your list of earthquake experts.

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