Coffee Lectures: The 24th Series Tue, Wed, Thu 13:00–13:10, live at HCI G2 and online via Zoom https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63020946312

Tuesday, 23.11.21

Manchester Academic Phrasebank (No. 37) Are you again struggling with writing the first draft of your manuscript? Check out the freely available online Academic Phrasebank that contains hundreds of English phrases typically used in research papers. Presenter: Dr. Jozica Dolenc

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Wednesday, 24.11.21

SoS for (in)organic chemists (No. 23) Science of Synthesis (SoS) is a unique chemistry database that provides an overview of synthetic methods for and applications of functional groups. Learn more about the usage philosophy, which is quite distinct from Reaxys or SciFinder. Presenter: Dr. Leo Betschart

Thursday, 25.11.21

Scite (No. 60) Never again waste time when looking for and evaluating research. By seeing how research has been cited (supported or contrasted) all in one place, researchers can easily find relevant and well supported results. Presenter: Dr. Oliver Renn

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Reference management with Zotero (No. 70) Zotero is an open-source alter-native to citation management systems such as EndNote or Mendeley. With its browser plugin and cloud integration, Zotero will help you to store, retrieve and cite all kinds of documents efficiently. Presenter: Andrej Kilian Wednesday, 1.12.21

Genome Analyses with CoGe (No. 71) Comparative genomics for free?! Yes, CoGe will compare your genome to over 20,000 others while keeping your data private. View synteny-based dotplots with SynMap, compare regions in up to 10 organisms with GeVo, or browse your ge-nome with the built-in Jbrowse. Presenter: Dr. Gina Cannarozzi

Thursday, 2.12.21

Knowledge management with Obsidian (No. 72) Organize, tag, archive and process bits of information, ideas and thoughts with this markdown-based software. Find them again later via search or knowledge graph. Presenter: Dr. Leo Betschart Tuesday, 7.12.21

ICSD– Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (No. 58) ICSD is the world's largest database of inorganic crystal structures. Learn how you can access the crystallographic, chemical and physical property data for over 250'000 crystal structures using the ICSD Web. Presenter: Dr. Jozica Dolenc Wednesday, 8.12.21

Embase – Pubmed on steroids (No. 67) Are you looking for bio-medical information, pharmaceutical compounds, medical devices, pharmacovigilance, without success in PubMed? Have you already tried Embase? Presenter: Dr. Gina Cannarozzi Thursday, 9.12.21

Dimensions – one more literature database (No. 63) Dimensions is a literature database that can be used to complement Scopus and Web of Science. Main features are a flexible search function and a powerful analysis module. Presenter: Andrej Kilian