Taiwan’s Technological and Vocational Education (TVE) Consortium Selects Web of Science for its Teaching and Research Needs
Posted on June 23, 2008
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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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