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
Social Research Collaboration
Platform
Increasing need of collaboration in research
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 London
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
14 December 2010
Research Workflow
Many platforms and tools try to support researcher’s workflow
• 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
Social Media
Tools
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
Focus is on researchers
as users
No library integration?
Bullinger, Hallerstede, Renken, Soeldner &
Moesle in
Towards Research Collaboration – a Taxonomy
of SRNS
What is Mendeley?
Mendeley
data
..share
and extracts
discuss
their
..lets
researchers
organize
and
fulltext
from
PDFs, ..
research
in groups,
and
annotate
papers,
Discover People
Search for individuals
Invite others by entering
email addresses
Search for contacts from
an email account
Select people from
Mendeley’s suggestions
Discover Groups
Create groups
Search for 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
Work on papers
Annotate, highlight, copy text into notes
Insert citations &
automatically
create bibliographies
A global research network with 1.7 million
users, growing at 130,000 per month:
1,800,000
1,600,000
1,400,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
University of Cambridge
Stanford University
MIT
University of Michigan
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
800,000
University College London
Harvard University
600,000
University of Washington
Cornell University
400,000
200,000
0
Columbia University
University of Edinburgh
UC Berkeley
Sao Paulo University
University of Toronto
A crowdsourced research database with 250 million
user-uploaded documents:
250,000,000
225,000,000
200,000,000
175,000,000
150,000,000
125,000,000
100,000,000
75,000,000
50,000,000
25,000,000
0
Documents
+
unique usergenerated
information
Network of
1,200 Advisors at
institutions
worldwide
Mendeley Institutional Edition
Analytics – Usage section
The “Reading” Section gives real time insights in
what content is being used by your members
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
MIE – Analytics – “Publishing” section
The “Publishing” Section gives real time
information on your researcher’s publication
performance
There are 3 report areas:
1. Number of articles published
2. In which journal they published
3. Ranking of your publishing
researchers
Analytics – “Impact” section
The “Impact” Section gives real time information
on the reach of your researcher’s publication
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
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
Thank you!
Meinhard Kettler
mkettler@de.swets.com