TDM Studio

HSG students, faculty, and staff must register to use TDM Studio:

1. Go to: https://tdmstudio.proquest.com/createaccount
2. Submit your account information, using your unisg email address
3. You will receive an email message asking you to verify your email address. 
4. Follow the steps to verify your email address
5. Log in and start using TDM Studio

Quick help

• ProQuest TDM Studio Guide 
• Onboarding and Question & Answer Session - new users can use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self scheduling tool  to schedule an onboarding session with ProQuest TDM Studio experts. Attention: the times offered are in US Eastern Time, normally a time difference of six hours.
• TDM Studio Technical Support
  • Email tdmstudio@clarivate.com and you will usually receive a response to your technical question within 24 hours.
  • Use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self-scheduling tool to schedule an appointment with an expert. Times are US Eastern Time.  

Available to all HSG students, faculty, and staff, the Visualizations component of TDM Studio does not require advanced coding skills.  It supports a point and click creation of data visualisations enabling users to:

• Mine and analyse thousands of articles in up to 10 newspapers
• Visualise global trends by comparing impact of a news topic across multiple geographic locations
• View interactive chronological displays to reveal changes in the subject of news coverage over time
• Use an embedded topic modeling component to analyze major themes in those news reports
• Manage as many as 10 simultaneous research projects of 10,000 documents each

NOTE: Depending on your query, it may take hours to produce the visualisation. 

The range of content available in Visualizations is limited. Visualizations currently includes dissertations, theses, and a very small selection of newspapers: Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. You can see the full list as well as date coverage in our current title list.  For some newspaper dates, TDM is only available for the citation or abstract.    

Current HSG faculty, staff, and students can register for access to the ProQuest TDM Studio Workbench.

Individuals or research teams of up to 5 persons wishing to use the TDM Studio Workbench should:

• Create a TDM Studio Account 
• If working with a team, the Team Lead should email tdmstudio@clarivate.com to request that additional users are added to the workbench. Team Leads may request up to 4 additional researchers be added to the workbench. Include the researchers first and last names and email addresses. Note: the Team Lead should be someone with a HSG account. Although, additional researchers can be from other institutions.
• The Team Lead should  schedule an Onboarding and Question & Answer session  using the TDM Studio (office 365.com) self-scheduling tool. Attention: the times offered are in US Eastern Time, normally a time difference of six hours.
• To access your Workbench, login into the TDM Studio page: https://tdmstudio.proquest.com/home.

The Fine Print

Access Requirements

• All Users are responsible for following and abiding by the ProQuest TDM Studio terms of use.
• For Research Teams
  • Each Team member must have an individual TDM Studio Account.
  • At least one Team member must be a current HSG faculty, staff, or student with a valid HSG account.
  • One HSG-affiliated Team member will be designated as the Team Lead and will handle all communication between the Team, the HSG Library, and ProQuest TDM Studio support. 
  • A Team may include researchers who are not at HSG if they are working on a team with one or more HSG-affiliated researchers.
  • For Research Teams: ProQuest will create a Workbench and provide passwords to individuals comprising a Research Team

Data Limits

• A limit of ten total simultaneous datasets can be created on the Workbench with up to 2 million documents per dataset at any one time.
• The Team mines content from sources aggregated within ProQuest databases to which the HSG Library has current licensing agreements/subscriptions in place with ProQuest.
  • Title List
  • Contact elibrary@unisg.ch to verify which publication titles of interest are contained within TDM Studio. 
• A maximum of 30 MB per week is available for export outside of TDM Studio.   NOTE: the corpus of text remains in TDM Studio.  Datasets cannot be exported.  Scripts and analysis results created by the Team may be exported from TDM Studio. Screen shots of the visualisations may be taken. If you have problems with export, please contact tdmstudio@clarivate.com.
• The Team's files will be deleted from the Workbench at the end of the Team's scheduled time.

Metadata Export

You can download up to 1 million metadata records per week.
There are two types of metadata exports available: 

• Citation Metadata: This export file provides metadata fields typically used to cite individual documents such as “Title”, “Date”, and “Author(s)”.
• Extended Metadata: This export file includes all of the fields in Citation Metadata but also includes additional, valuable metadata for text and data mining purposes such as subject fields and extra publication information. 

Both metadata exports can be analyzed using various tools and methods outside of TDM Studio. The metadata export files have been tailored to the two most-commonly-used data types in TDM Studio: Newspapers and Dissertations.

Downloading

• All members of a Team have read/write access to all data, programmes, and results. TDM Studio users will be able to analyze, but not download full data sets.  The full corpus of text remains in TDM Studio.
• TDM Studio users will be able to analyze, but not download full data sets.  The full corpus of text remains in TDM Studio.
• Team members can download all of their programmes and related analytical results up to 30MB per week. If you have problems with export, please contact tdmstudio@clarivate.com
• Downloads are queued and team members are sent an email when the download is ready.
• The link in the email will work only once.
• Team member coordination for the use of the emailed links is advised. 
• The Team should retain search strings used to retrieve content so that the searches can be re-run at a later time if necessary

ProQuest offers a guide with documentation on getting started with TDM Studio.  More documentation is contained in the Jupyter Notebook in the TDM Studio Workbench.

• ProQuest TDM Studio Guide 
• TDM Studio: Using Visualization
  • Creating a Project 
  • Visualization Dashboard 
  • Geographic Analysis 
  • Topic Modeling 
• TDM Sudio: Using the Workbench
  • Main interface
  • Creating your dataset 
  • Using the Jupyter Notebook 
• Onboarding and Question & Answer session - new users can use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self-scheduling tool  to schedule an onboarding session with ProQuest TDM Studio experts. Attention: the times offered are in US Eastern Time, normally a time difference of six hours.     
• TDM Studio Technical Support 
  • Email tdmstudio@clarivate.com 
  • Use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self-scheduling tool to schedule an appointment with an expert. Times are US Eastern Time.

Content related questions can be sent to elibrary@unisg.ch.