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Taiwan’s Technological and Vocational Education (TVE) Consortium Selects Web of Science for Its Teaching and Research Needs

homson Reuters
2008-06-20 22:43 1864

Web of Science Provides Researchers with Powerful Cited Reference Searching Across Multidisciplinary Content

TAIPEI, June 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the signing of Taiwan’s Technological and Vocational Education (TVE) consortium for its premier multidisciplinary citation resource, Web of Science(R). The signing of TVE has brought Web of Science full circle to Taiwan where the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters signed on its first customer in Asia in 1997, National Chiao Tung University. Web of Science has since been a trailblazer in Asia with more than 350 customers in Asia Pacific to date.

"Citations are the basis of research which helps to build up the linkage among scientific literature. Making Web of Science available to all our 93 institutions will greatly help our lecturers and researchers acquire further quality and relevant resources across multiple disciplines for their teaching and research," said Professor Su Te-Jen, Department of Electronic Engineering at National Kaoshiung University of Applied Science, and chief of the TVE consortium.

Taiwan’s Technological and Vocational Education (TVE) consortium covers a wide range of disciplines spanning technical courses in junior high schools, vocational schools and junior colleges to technological institutes as well as science and technology-oriented universities. In terms of education, students and lecturers will benefit from access to Web of Science which will help them stay abreast of the latest research trends and promote better understanding of research areas and collaboration opportunities.

Another member of the TVE consortium, Professor Tsai Ming-Shyong, Department of Chemistry and Material Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology added, "By using Web of Science, researchers from different countries will have access to the same high quality and scholarly information. The interaction through citation linkages will benefit international academic exchange significantly."

Said Mark Garlinghouse, Vice President and Managing Director, Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, "It is through our customers’ endorsement and testimonials that Web of Science has remained the leading multidisciplinary citation resource in Asia. We are proud to have played a vital role to support research in this part of the world."

Web of Science provides the TVE consortium with seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from nearly 10,000 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. This allows users to navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time periods to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles. Web of Science is the world’s most authoritative citation database used at more than 3,100 research institutions around the world and in over 80 countries.

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