English language webinars from Elsevier

In March on BrightTalk platform continue free English language webinars from Elsevier.

04/03/21 at 12.00 (Kyiv time) How easy is it to publish a magazine and reach a wide
audience?

Webinar will be useful for you if you are interested in creating a journal, have already
created a journal and want to expand the audience or look for the new ways to distribute
the content of your journal.

Register. 

11/03/21 at 12.00 (Kyiv time) 20 Cool Things to do with Institutional
Repository.

Event about the new types of content, interactive functions, and technical possibilities
of Digital Commons platform.

Register.

18/03/21 at 12.00 (Kyiv time) How to work with the author profile and preprints in Scopus?

Webinar will be dedicated to the questions of creating authors’ profiles in Scopus,
information that you can find in authors’ profiles, and the role of preprints in authors’ profiles.

Register. 

25/03/21 at 12.00 (Kyiv time) SciVal for researchers – cooperation, how to look for collaborators?

The event will be interesting for active members of research community, experts
in publishing, and responsible for international cooperation in organization. You will learn the functionalities and tools of SciVal for evaluation of possibilities for cooperation, bibliometric data analysis for cooperation, influence of cooperation on the indicators and enhancing effectiveness of search in Scopus database.

Register. 

Please join!

Report of the trade bureau Head about fulfillment of collective agreement

We invite you to review the report of the trade bureau Head about realization of Collective
agreement of Scientific and technical library of the National technical university of Ukraine «Igor
Sikorsky Kyiv polytechnic institute» for 2020 year.

Due to the circumstances caused by the coronavirus , this year’s report was presented in
distance format. However, the work of trade bureau and KPI Library continued in routine mode,
although with some changes.

Read more via the link.

Educational events «Clean Thursday: lets update authors’ profiles»

Library invites KPI researchers to participate educational online events «Clean Thursday: lets
update authors’ profiles».

Location: Zoom platform.

Theme: Author’s profile in Google Scholar: all the details of maintenance
Registration:
4 March 16.-17.00 
8 April 16.00-17.00 

Theme: ORCHID: researcher identifier in the digital environment
Registration:
11 March 16.00-17.00
15 April 16.00-17.00 

Theme: Scopus ID: it is good when there is only one and what do to with the rest
Registration:
18 March 16.00-17.00 
22 April 16.00-17.00 

Theme: ResearcherID on PUBLONS: creating and maintaining
Registration:
25 March 16.00-17.00 
29 April 16.00-17.00 

Choose the most interesting theme, convenient date and register.

Publication about lifetime editions of Ukrainian literature classics

In the latest issue of «Kyiv Polytechnic» newspaper an article by Library expert Oksana Dygas about lifetime editions of Ukrainian literature classics – Ivan Neshui-Levytskyi, Panas Myrnyi, Ivan Franko, and Vasyl Stefanyk, was published. Books are kept in the rare and valuable documents department. Read more via the link.

Formula of journals impact-factor calculation renewed

Clarivate Analytics in their report and relevant press-release has informed that the formula for impact-factor calculation for journals that are included into databases of Science Citation Index Expanded and WoS Social Science Citation Index on Web of Science platform has been renewed.

New method is driven by the need to count academic influence of journals that function by the model of Early Access to the articles more correctly.

Due to Seven Hubbard, director of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) content group, usage of the date of online publication to count impact factor of the journal will start in 2022 also using the data of 2021 publications.

We remind you that on Library website in chapter «Research» you can always:

• find information on different indexes of academic journals impact;
• overview the lists of new publications of Igor Sikorsky KPI authors on Scopus and Web of Science with impact indexes that is calculated by these international databases of scientific citation.