1st edition: November 28-29, 2022

Course for:

  • PhD in Molecular Sciences
  • PhD in Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures
  • PhD in Pharmacological Sciences

Moodle course ABC of bibliographic research must be completed (attendance certificate level 3 is required) to attend the course.

1st Session

Part 1, 9:00-10:30

Course introduction (Filippo Vomiero & Barbara Serino)

Discussion on:

  • known and used databases
  • open access: what do you know?
  • academic career: what you need to know

slides

Part 2, 10:30-12:00

Scopus (Filippo Vomiero)

  • Citation databases and bibliographic databases
  • Research by topic
  • Sources evaluation and retrieval
  • Bibliography and styles
  • Practical exercises

slides

2nd Session

Part 1, 9:00-10:00

Scholarly communication and patent literature (Barbara Serino)

  • Scholarly communication
  • The publication process and peer review
  • The journals in the Chemical, Pharmacological, Physics field
  • Journal and article metrics
  • Researcher metrics
  • Patent literature as a source of information and intellectual property

slides

Part 2, 10:00-12:00

Open Science and institutional repositories at the University of Padova (Michela Zorzi)

  • Open access mandates to scientific publications and research data
  • UniPd institutional repositories
  • The management of research data (DMP, FAIR principles, Research Data Unipd)

slides

PhD course specific sessions

PhD in Pharmacological Sciences

AdisInsight: a database for drugs in development, clinical trials, patents and adverse drug reactions (Daniela Ranzani, AdisInsight Product Manager – Springer)

Webinar: November 30th, 2022, 11:00-12:00

PhD in Molecular Sciences & Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures

Reaxys: how to retrieve literature, compound properties and chemical reaction data (Marta Da Pian, Customer Consultant – Elsevier)

Online training session: TBA (~February 2023)

Illustration by David Parkins (courtesy of)