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

Social Media

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 London Emerald Group Publishing Ltd 14 December 2010

Research Workflow Many platforms and tools try to support researcher’s workflow Social Media Tools 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 manager Library

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 account Select people from Mendeley’s suggestions Invite others by entering 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

View on article Article overview: -Bibliographical information -Readership Statistics -Related Papers -Tags

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 MIT University of Michigan Imperial College London University of Oxford University College London Harvard University University of Washington Cornell University Columbia University University of Edinburgh UC Berkeley Sao Paulo University University of Toronto

A crowdsourced research database with 250 million user-uploaded documents: Documents + unique user- generated information

Network of 1,200 Advisors at institutions worldwide

Mendeley Institutional Edition

Analytics – Usage section There are 3 report areas: 1.Number of articles added to members’ library 2.Ranking of journals matched against library holding 3.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 published 2.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 publications 3.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

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Meinhard Kettler Thank you!

Sources used for Statements Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century, RS Policy document 03/11 Issued: March 2011 DES2096. Bullinger, Hallerstede, Renken, Soeldner & Moesle in Towards Research Collaboration – a Taxonomy of SRNS Proceedings of the Sixteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Lima, Peru, August 12-15, Liao, C.H., How to improve research quality? Examining the impacts of collaboration intensity and member diversity in collaboration networks. Scientometrics, 86(3), pp Jung Cheol Shin, William K. Cummings: Multilevel analysis of academic publishing across disciplines: research preference, collaboration, and time on research, Published online: 6 May 2010 Social media and research workflow, CIBER, University College London, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 14 December 2010