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LIBER Conference, Tartu, June 2012 Meinhard Kettler, Swets. New Workflows in Research and Collaboration and the Role of the Library. Introducing the Mendeley Institutional Edition. Topics. Social Networks and Collaboration in Research Mendeley: The Platform and the Company - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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New Workflows in Research and Collaboration and the Role of the Library. Introducing the Mendeley Institutional Edition
LIBER Conference, Tartu, June 2012 Meinhard Kettler, Swets
Topics
• Social Networks and Collaboration in Research• Mendeley: The Platform and the Company• Mendeley Institutional Edition
2 Trends merge into 1
Adoption of Social networks on the web
Increasing need of collaboration in research
Social Research Collaboration Platform
Social Networks
Research Collaboration – Statements & Facts
• Research performance and productivity are key drivers of countries’ and companies’ competitiveness
• Less than 26% of papers are the product of one institution alone
• Collaborating faculties/researchers have higher publication output by 38%
• Research collaboration intensity is a strong driver for achieving higher levels of research quality
• International research collaboration has a positive impact on the number of citation of the published article
• Important enablers for research collaborations are web tools and the significant decrease in communication cost.
Social Media – Benefit for Researchers
Perceived benefit of social media use in research
Mean agreement scores, where 1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree
CIBER, University College LondonEmerald Group Publishing Ltd14 December 2010
Research Workflow
Many platforms and tools try to support researcher’s workflow
Social MediaTools
• Researchers are already using a number of social tools to support every phase of the research lifecycle.
• Social networks have an impact on the scholarly workflow
Where is the library in the new workflow of research?
Main focus of libraries:
• Discoverability of content
• Availability of content
• Reference managerLibrary
Platforms for Researchers
Bullinger, Hallerstede, Renken, Soeldner & Moesle in Towards Research Collaboration – a Taxonomy of SRNS
Focus is on researchers as users
No library integration?
Mendeley extracts data and fulltext from
PDFs, ..
..share and discuss their research in
groups, ..
..lets researchers organize and annotate
papers, ..
What is Mendeley?
Discover People
Search for individuals
Search for contacts from an email account
Select people from Mendeley’s suggestions
Invite others by entering email addresses
Discover Groups
Search for groups
Create groups
Browse per discipline
View popular groups
Discover Papers
Search by Author, Title, Keywords, DOI etc.
Browse by discipline
Save documents and references to you library
Find relevant content by recommendations
My Library
Manage you library & groups online or in the desktop version
Annotate, highlight, copy text into notes
Insert citations & automatically create bibliographies
Work on papers
A global research network with 1.7 million
users, growing at 130,000 per month:University of Cambridge
Stanford University MITUniversity of Michigan Imperial College LondonUniversity of OxfordUniversity College LondonHarvard UniversityUniversity of WashingtonCornell UniversityColumbia UniversityUniversity of EdinburghUC BerkeleySao Paulo UniversityUniversity of Toronto
A crowdsourced research database with 250 million user-uploaded documents:
Documents +
unique user-
generated information
Network of1,200 Advisors at institutions worldwide
Mendeley Institutional Edition
Analytics – Usage section
There are 3 report areas:
1.Number of articles added to members’ library2.Ranking of journals matched against library holding3.Ranking of most read articles
The “Reading” Section gives real time insights in what content is
being used by your members
MIE – Analytics – “Publishing” section
There are 3 report areas:
1.Number of articles published2.In which journal they published 3.Ranking of your publishing researchers
The “Publishing” Section gives real time information on your
researcher’s publication performance
Analytics – “Impact” section
There are 3 report areas:
1.Number of “readers” of your researcher’s publications 2.Ranking of highly read publications3.Ranking of your researchers with the largest readership
The “Impact” Section gives real time information on the reach of your
researcher’s publication
Settings – “Holdings” section
Manage group description & member, upload holding list & link resolver
Mendeley & MIE - Overview
Mendeley is a next generation work flow tool and social
discovery engine built for the individual researcher to enhance
productivity and facilitate collaboration
The Mendeley Institutional Edition provides librarians with a window into and a platform for supporting the research within
their communities
Mendeley & MIE Work Together
The passion we inspire
Meinhard [email protected]
Thank you!