INIST Webinars – September–October 2026
10 September 2026 – 8.00 am - 29 October 2026 – 5.00 pm

INIST – CNRS offers you 10 webinars to help you discover or rediscover our tools for open science.
Discover text mining and corpus construction
Discover TDM Factory to get started with text mining
This webinar offers an introduction to TDM Factory, the interface that allows you to upload a file or a corpus, select a text mining process and automatically receive the results, without the need for any specific technical skills.
- Friday 11 September, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm
- Wednesday 30 September, 11 am to 12 noon
- Tuesday 6 October, from 2 pm to 3 pm
Searching Istex and creating corpora with Istex Search
This webinar presents the features of the Istex Search interface that enable you to search the Istex database, making it easier to build and download your corpora.
- Wednesday 23 September, from 10.00 am to 10.45 am
- Monday 5 October, from 10.00 am to 10.45 am
- Thursday 29 October, from 10.00 am to 10.45 am
Create, enrich and make the most of your data with LODEX
A series of five webinars to discover LODEX and learn how to create, enrich, analyse and make the most of structured data. From getting started to advanced features, explore text mining, visualisations, customisation and collaborative working.
- Discover LODEX — Thursday 10 September, 10.00–11.30 am
- Exploring Texts — Thursday 17 September, 10.00–11.30 am
- Analysing corpora — Thursday 24 September, 10.00–11.30 am
- Customising LODEX — Thursday 1 October, 10.00 am to 11.30 am
- Working with LODEX — Thursday 8 October, 10.00 am to 11.30 am
Easy access to scientific publications
Discover OpenAlex and take your literature search to the next level
Two webinars are available to help you discover OpenAlex and learn more about how to use it for bibliographic searches and exploring author profiles.
- Webinar 1: Discover OpenAlex for your bibliographic research :
- Tuesday 8 September, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm
- Friday 18 September, from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
- Wednesday 30 September, from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
- Webinar 2: Advanced bibliographic searches and author profiles in OpenAlex :
- Thursday 1 October, 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
- Wednesday 7 October, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm
Optimise your literature searches with BibCnrs
This webinar offers a guided tour of BibCnrs, the CNRS portal for accessing documentary resources. It presents the main features of the interface
- Friday 25 September, from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
- Thursday 22 October, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm
Discover Click and Read, the browser extension that makes it easier to access publications
This webinar introduces Click and Read, the browser extension that provides one-click access to the full text of scientific publications.
- Tuesday 29 September, from 2.00 pm to 2.45 pm
- Wednesday 28 October, from 11.00 am to 11.45 am
Understanding research data management and the creation of a data management plan
Getting started with DMP OPIDoR to create your data management plan
This webinar will guide you through getting started with DMP OPIDoR to create a data management plan.
- Thursday 1 October, from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Drawing up a data management plan: best practice
This webinar provides you with the key insights you need to understand the requirements of a PGD and avoid the main pitfalls when drafting it. On the agenda: key issues, content, best practice and an introduction to DMP OPIDoR, with time set aside for discussion at the end.
- Tuesday 6 October, from 10.00 am to 11.30 am
Understanding the FAIR principles and the data lifecycle
This webinar offers an introduction to the FAIR principles and best practices in research data management. You will learn about the key stages of the data lifecycle, from creation to reuse.
- Tuesday 13 October from 10.00 am to 11.30 am

