Currently and in several times in the past, the cost and supply of helium in GCMS and GC applications can be cause for concern.

Though training may seem a simple service to offer, it takes many years of experience and professionalism to deliver in an interesting and engaging manner.

With the advent of modern GC/MS instruments and software when analysing unknowns, there is a lack of skills and understanding of how compounds fragment.

New improvements and free GCMS training resources, including videos and associated handouts, will be described. EI/tandem libraries utilized include NIST, Wiley, MoNA, and user-created ones.

This GC & GC/MS guide offers practical advice which we hope will assist users avoid many common problems encountered from the results of poor method development, translation or optimisation.

This guide offers practical advice which we hope will assist users of nuances and to avoid many of the common pitfalls encountered in gas analysis.

A demo of creating a NIST user library is presented. In addition, an inexpensive but powerful method for combining, updating, distributing, and archiving it over a corporate network is discussed.

Going through the 7 steps Dr Ed Connor will give an explanation of how easy it is to switch gases and what considerations and actions are required to do so.

The NIST hybrid search of MS libraries is a greatly improved search algorithm. It generates a similarity score for both fragments and neutral losses. Thus extending the scope of commercial and user libraries.

A demo of AMDIS for processing EI GC-MS files is presented. In addition to the NIST Search software the components can be identified within AMDIS using either commercial or user libraries.