Where is the library

in the digital workflow

of research?
Research in the age of Social Media


















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LIBRARIES, RESEARCHERS AND SOCIAL RESEARCH SOLUTIONS .................................................... 3
Where is the institutional library in the digital workflow of research? ..................................................................... 3
Researchers and digital reading ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Researcher Workflow ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
The research toolkit ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Managing information .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Using information ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Adding to information .................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Referencing information ................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Protecting information ................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Collaboration and discovery ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Market overview ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Reference manager overview
8 9 10
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The institutional library and the role of the librarian ................................................................................................... 11
Acquisition ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Publication Repository ................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Guidance ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Libraries and the Mendeley Institutional Edition by SWETS ....................................................................................... 14
Research collaboration in the age of Social Media ........................................................................................................................... 15
About SWETS ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
External References .................................................................................................................................................................... 18


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Libraries, researchers and social research
solutions
Where is the institutional library in the digital
workflow of research?
Do we need academic libraries in the age of the internet? For well over a decade
1
librarians,
publishers, students and researchers have been asking this question.
The answer is always changing. It changes because libraries are a vital part of a shifting
research landscape. To see libraries as static buildings full of books, steadily being overtaken
by an ever more complete Internet is to misunderstand not only what libraries always were,
but also what librarians always did.
The aims of the academic librarian, to acquire, preserve, and direct users to quality published
resources appropriate for academic purposes
2
remain the same in the age of the Internet, and
the role is as important as ever.
However, acquisition of academic material has changed; researchers are facing an ever
increasing output of research articles which are necessary to read as the content could be
relevant for their own work. Researchers mostly try to manage the papers as PDFs, but find
that sharing this important information and collaborating with other researchers on the same
content is difficult to arrange. Preservation is facing new challenges that are being addressed
by both cloud based solutions and institutional repositories. Meanwhile users are finding new
tools and techniques to help them discover new titles and manage their research. But more
than ever users need librarians, because the larger the internet grows, the more confusing it
becomes.
If researchers have desktops crammed full of PDFs and students begin every search on
Google, how can librarians help them navigate to the information they really need? Librarians
are increasingly being faced with students and researchers who do not see what added value a
library could provide to their work.
This paper discusses how researcher and student workflow has changed and looks at the role
of the institutional library in this new digital universe.



1 Do We Need Academic Libraries? A Position Paper of the Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/doweneedacademic.cfm
2 If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?:
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume42/IftheAcademicLibraryCeasedtoEx/158111





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Researchers and digital reading
For many researchers, the move from print reading to digital reading is complete. In different
subjects and on different continents, researchers value the speed and convenience of reading
information on screen, even if they are not entirely ready to give up printed journals and
books. As part of this screen reading they are looking for tools that are easy to use, make
them more efficient and speed up the research process
3
.

Researcher Workflow
The research process is made up of a
number of different stages, but researchers
are often engaged with more than one
project and may, on a day-to day-basis, be
engaged in activities in more than one of
these phases. Researchers within universities
may also have teaching responsibilities,
which add another self-contained activity to
their work - finding papers to use as
teaching materials. Students follow the same
pattern in many respects, though they are
set projects rather than apply for funding.
They may not be working to the same level
as professional researchers but their
approach is very similar.
When discussing the practical tools researchers and students can use to assist with their
workflow, it is important to note that the work is far more dynamic than moving gently
through the research process.


In a couple of decades we have gone from a situation where researchers were reliant primarily
on their institutional library for the provision of articles to one where many researchers carry a
private library on their laptop or keep one in the cloud. As the size and complexity of these
libraries increases researchers are becoming familiar with new tools to manage them such as
Endnote and RefWorks. Some of these tools focus only on reference management. The
demand for broader support throughout the research cycle has increased significantly and
resulted in the appearance of new collaboration platforms such as Mendeley, and Zotero.
3 Social media and research workflow: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf





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These new tools are more than just Reference Managers, they can play a central part in the
workflow of research. Researchers do not simply need to organise their own PDFs in order to
create references for more publications, though this is important. They use publications for
learning, teaching, and as part of complex collaborative projects that span institutional
barriers, countries, continents and languages. The term Reference Manager implies that
research is static; papers are simply referenced by other papers, but research is a dynamic
process, where articles and eBooks take a central role in complex interactions between
researchers and their peers, their institution, governments, the public, industry and many
other stakeholder groups.
Its also worth noting that while we are using the term researchers, students are also engaged
in research that sees them undertake many of these activities and they are making use of the
same tools.
Additionally, many researchers are also teachers in a formal sense, and set reading lists for
their students.

The research toolkit
Managing information
Researchers may find keeping information at their fingertips more convenient than using a
central library, but the result of keeping their own PDFs is that they must take on the job of
organising them. The simple task of adding and organising PDFs into a personal filing system
can be onerous if done manually, with documents arriving from different sources; downloaded
from publishing platforms, received via email and taken from repositories. The ability to import
documents in bulk, import them from other systems or websites and even simple drag-and-
drop can remove hours of labour for the researcher at the outset of a project.
The new research collaboration tools can extract metadata from the PDFs being imported, so
instead of a simple folder with a list of complex, abstract filenames, possibly truncated by the
display, users are presented with an intuitive interface that allows them to browse the
documents and see essential attributes of the article such as the title, authors, publisher or
journal.
For researchers who suffer from information overload, reading hundreds of PDF documents a
month, its easy to get lost. Good research collaboration tools will also contain a search engine.
Its now possible to search across the full text of a researchers own library, just as it would be
on a publisher platform or using a search engine like Google and results can appear instantly,
enabling the researcher to refine or vary their search to get to the document they need.





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Using information
For professional researchers there are different types of reading. At one end of the scale there
is a scan to ascertain whether or not this is an article they need to take a great interest in,
perhaps speed-reading the abstract on a mobile device or a tablet. At the other end of the
scale we might see the practice of peer review, where reading must be more intense and in
depth, since the researcher has been asked to express a professional opinion on the article.
For researchers, on screen reading is a largely a matter of finding a comfortable interface they
can familiarise themselves with. Switching easily between documents can also be an important
feature when trying to establish the best reference for an idea, or the best paper to fit within a
course structure. All major internet browsers now have tabbed browsing as a feature and
reference management interfaces can provide the same functionality.
The ability to annotate a PDF can be crucial. Researchers are predominantly reading for a
specific purpose, to aid their own research or teaching. They read in order to form an opinion
about what they have read. The ability to immediately record their first impressions of an
article is vital, which is why so many researchers, up until recently, printed out many of their
PDFs in order to scribble in the margins. Using sticky notes this can now be done on screen.
Adding to information
Much of what researchers read is then read by someone else; a student, a colleague, a
publisher, a conference committee; the ability to share annotations allows their own thoughts
to accompany the article. Sharing annotations with select groups of people is one area of
collaboration which is becoming increasingly important. No wonder that research has become a
social activity between people with mutual interests in a topic. Many researchers have
welcomed social media into their workflow
4
, using Twitter
5
, LinkedIn and Facebook to organise
groups and share information. However these all-purpose platforms do not always have the
unique functionality that researchers need, and involve them stepping out of their workflow to
login, post a link or make a contribution. Within the new research collaboration tools the ability
to create documents and share them with specific groups, such as a class or a research group,
offers researchers functionality that more directly addresses their needs. Here the new
technologies demonstrate their enormous power, creating a virtual table around which
researchers on different continents can sit and scribble notes on the same document.
With international research projects it can also be difficult to keep track of who is due to
submit a comment or paper to move things along. With collaborative Reference Manager tools
its possible to set up a news feed so that the latest developments are always highlighted.
Of course, much of this functionality is already available to researchers if they wish to use ten
or twenty different tools to do it. The attraction for many in moving away from general
4 Academic research in 140 characters or less: http://www.scribd.com/doc/54084667/Academic-research-in-140-characters-or-less
5 As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter
and other online activity: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/11/21/altmetrics-twitter/





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platforms and towards bespoke solutions created with academic research in mind is that more
of the day-to-day work can be done using one system.
Referencing information
The different systems may be moving beyond reference management but the basics are still
very important, not least because the maintenance of accurate bibliographies and reference
lists formatted to suit the needs of different publishers and institutions is extremely time
consuming. The ability to select from standard citations styles; create one using Citation Syle
Language
6
; create bibliographies without leaving the word processing program and collaborate
on bibliographies within private groups, these all prevent the researcher from becoming
bogged down in administrative data entry, freeing up their time for more important, and
interesting, tasks.
For researchers, as for many professionals with IT at the centre of their role, the ability to
access the system from many different machines with different technical specifications is
crucial. Added to the traditional tensions between a home computer and an office computer
are diversifying web browsers, operating systems, mobile phones and tablets. Versatility is an
essential feature of a reference management system and recognising, for instance, that a
researcher may use MS Word in their office, but Open Office at home, is essential.
Protecting information
Despite the plethora of devices that many researchers now own, and the expansion of cloud
technologies, data is always under threat from sudden destruction. Be it hardware failure or
human error, if systems are to encourage researchers to trust them they must back-up the
work thats entrusted to them. Working on projects on multiple devices also creates a problem
for these programs if they cannot easily synchronise the changes that have been made. If
researchers see an out of date version of their library much of the power and the efficiency
gained from using it is lost entirely.



6 Citation Styles Language is an open XML based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies:
http://citationstyles.org/





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Collaboration and discovery
Much of whats been covered in this brief researchers toolkit is the replication of what used
to be done offline using photocopiers and ballpoint pens. There is an additional power that
stems from research collaboration tools like Mendeley; the power of discovery. Combining
the private researcher library with open groups and personal profiles creates a place where
researchers find out more about each others work, and are given a space to champion their
own research to key stakeholders across the world. Together the private libraries of
academics create crowd-sourced catalogues and thoughtful search engines can explore these
in a way that makes a real, concrete contribution to scholarly communication.
From Facebook adverts to the Google + button, the most powerful companies of the digital
age are beginning to realise the potential of marrying personal information, profiles and
activities with powerful searching to inform the recommendations and choices that
consumers are presented with. Specialist systems designed with scientific discovery in mind
can cherry-pick some of the best of these developments, helping researchers keep track of
colleagues and find important new networks in an increasingly global research landscape.
Trending Topics, so often a trivial diversion on all-encompassing social networks like
Twitter, have real power in a defined academic environment where users have specific,
clearly stated research interests.

The different functionalities of reference management systems; reading, annotating,
organising and creating bibliographies, can streamline some of the essential tasks of research,
freeing up researchers to spend more time on core tasks and engaging with new networks that
emerge from collaboration and discovery.
Market overview
Four systems have developed as leaders in this area, with a plethora of smaller systems
offering different functionalities, some of which suit a niche audience very well. Of the four
market leaders, Endnote and Refworks must be purchased, Zotero and Mendeley are free in
their standard version. Where Endnote and Refworks are generally regarded as professional
Reference Managers, Zotero and Mendeley expand the scope of useful functionality.
The decision to buy software or try out free versions is both personal and institutional. Some
consumers prefer buying software they can install to using free or cloud applications. They feel
a direct financial purchase gives them more control. Others would never dream of paying for
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A system based on an ethos of open source development has an advantage over proprietary
software in that it actively seeks to exist within an ecosystem of applications that fulfil different
needs. This diversity recognises the very different workflows and priorities of researchers in a
plethora of subject areas, on many continents and at various stages in the research cycle.
Just as the systems lead to collaboration by researchers on a huge variety of topics, an open
source mentality seeks to collaborate on the very nature of the tool being provided. In
November 2011 Mendeley and PLoS announced a competition for developers to use Mendeley
APIs to create new add-ons and apps for the system. By using applications such as Mendeley,
researchers benefit from being part of a community who are genuinely trying to push the
technology forward and who are passionate about developing new ways of working
7
.
Whilst they overlap, these tools have been developed with slightly different emphases leading
to different strengths and weaknesses. Many researchers use more than one system at
different points in the research process.
















7 Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle: http://dev.mendeley.com/api-binary-battle/





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Reference manager overview
8 9 10

Refworks Endnote Zotero Mendeley
Where does it
come from?
ProQuest -
www.proquest.com
Thomson Reuters -
www.endnoteweb.com
Center for History
and New Media of
George Mason
University -
www.zotero.org
Start Up company
investors include
former executive
chairman of Last.fm
www.mendeley.com
How much
does it cost?
Negotiated with
ProQuest, more than
$20,000 for a large
university
$299.95 for a private
copy but reductions on
volume licenses
Free with Firefox
plug-in
Free for basic
version
Organize
references
with Windows
yes yes yes yes
Organize
references
with a Mac
no yes yes yes
Organize
references
with Linux
no yes yes yes
Organize
references on
an iPhone
no no no yes
Extract
metadata
no no no yes
Full text
search
yes no yes yes
PDF viewer no yes no yes
File organizer no no no yes
Share public
folders
yes no yes yes
Share on the
web
yes yes yes yes
Share PDF
files
yes no yes yes
Formatted
references
into Microsoft
Word
Write-n-Cite yes yes yes
Formatted
references
into Open
Office
no no yes yes





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Formatted
references
into LaTex
no no no yes
Formatted
references
into edit
styles
no yes no yes
Citing from
the web
Yes, with a plug-in
RefGrab-It
no yes Yes, with a plug-in -
Web Importer
Sharing Yes, no full text no no Yes, some full text
Storage Some storage included Storage on your
computer
Some storage
included
Some storage
included
Duplicates
elimination
yes yes no yes
Direct export
from
databases
yes, for most yes yes, for most yes, for most
Interoperabili
ty with other
citation tools
yes yes yes yes
API available no no yes yes

The institutional library and the role of the librarian
At a first glance it might be presumed that the existence of these private researcher libraries,
linked through collaboration and discovery, reduces the role of the institutional library. In fact
the very opposite is true.
The core roles of the librarian; to acquire, preserve and guide patrons to the highest quality
publications become even more important in this confusing new digital world.
Acquisition
The most profound change brought to researchers by cloud based crowd sourced library
catalogues is the volume and geographic reach of information at their fingertips. Research is
now global and this brings enormous opportunity, but also new challenges. In a research
universe this big it is easy to become lost. Whether they want to examine research done at
their own institution, find out about research at leading facilities or make contact with partner
organisations, researchers and students may not know where to begin. If they have an active
presence in a social web environment then it will be natural for them to begin the search
there. A presence for institutional libraries in these social network spaces provides a
8 Reference Manager Overview: http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/reference-manager-overview/
9 Refworks Zotero and Mendeley three Way comparison Chart 2011: http://www.slideshare.net/giustinid/ref-works-mendeley-
zotero
10 Electronic Resources Reviews and Reports, Mendeley, Eugene Barsky, Science and Engineering Librarian, University of British
Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia
11 An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a standard method from desktop and web applications http://oauth.net/






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touchstone for the researcher and student, a way of navigating this international academic
landscape.
Improving the workflow of researchers is about providing simple tools that speed their day-to-
day work. The references contained within reference management systems are not always to
open access articles. An institutional presence could confer some of the benefits of access to
the library catalogue itself, including identification and access through an established system
such as those based on the OAuth
11
protocol that can integrate with Facebook, Twitter and
Google ID.
Publication Repository
In a recent report
12
when asked what publishers and researchers could do better, researchers
highly rated the need for articles to link to the data that underpins their argument. Although
the aforementioned tools do not provide (yet) the option to store all relevant research data in
one database they are already useful to centralize all publications developed by a member of a
university.
In many cases this means linking published articles to institutional repositories and these two
intersect at the university library. Academics move jobs, leaving previous research behind
them. To keep the benefits of an efficient workflow offered by the Reference Management
systems its essential that a user can click from the profile of a researcher in their field, to that
researchers publications, then to the institution holding the unpublished data, then to the data
itself. People move, libraries remain and this certainty is extremely important in providing
reliable, perpetual access to data.
Guidance
A recent paper from the ALA
13
set out the different ways that academic libraries contribute to
their institutions and challenged preconceived measurement of the success of libraries.
Increasingly, it argues, governing boards at universities are looking to see how every part of
their organisation contributes to achieving core goals of attracting and supporting successful
students and publishing cutting edge research. Libraries do themselves a disservice if they
dont point out that, far from being warehouses full of books, they make a vital contribution to
student learning and satisfaction. They help students achieve higher grades by providing
guidance on self-directed projects and contribute to the employability of students, which
enhances the reputation of the university and keeps applications flowing in.
However, librarians have to be where students are in order to offer this much needed support.
If students and researchers are more comfortable using online social media environments in
their everyday work, then that is where librarians must be.
12 Social media and research workflow: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf
13 The Value of Academic Libraries: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/val_report.pdf





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One point made by this ALA report is the need to collect more data on the success of regular
and heavy users of the library resources. Through publishing platforms librarians now have
access to comprehensive usage statistics. When using Reference Management systems
researchers are creating an enormous amount of data about their working habits and the
publications they find useful. If libraries are given a role in these systems, this data can
augment that currently provided by publishers. Librarians will be able to use these statistics
not only to enhance their purchasing and subscription decisions but also to demonstrate the
key role they play in the success of their institution.
Theres no doubt that Reference Management systems help researchers to work more
efficiently, saving institutions valuable time. Whilst many students going through
undergraduate degrees will step out of the world of scientific research or academia, for others
they are taking the first steps in a lifelong profession driven by curiosity and passion. In part,
Librarians teach researchers how to research. Institutions need expert users of Reference
Management systems, available to students from all faculties, to introduce them to these
useful research tools that will help them achieve higher grades and work more quickly.
Librarians are key in building participation in these new digital spaces
14
.






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Libraries and the Mendeley Institutional Edition
by SWETS
The Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) powered by SWETS creates a place for the
institutional library to exist within the collaborative Reference Management system. A public
profile acts as a landing page for users wishing to know more about an institution. The public
profile is an up to date, dynamic picture of the library that will demonstrate its latest activity,
rather than a piece of static web copy that is quickly outdated. The profile can showcase recent
publications from researchers at the institution and highlight which public groups their
researchers are involved with.
This is an important tool for institutions, who are always engaged in recruiting new students
and researchers. The Mendeley profile page provides transparency for incoming researchers
and students on the research, focus and impact of the institution.
The profile page can also play a role in disseminating the work of the institution; providing an
interface to browse to the institution members and their publications.
A dashboard view helps manage the institutional page; it shows how researchers are
collaborating with one another and which groups are most popular. It will be easy to see
trending topics within the organisation providing librarians with an on-going insight into their
users requirements.
The MIE allows librarians to create their own group and invite members of their institution with
existing Mendeley profiles to join. Once researchers and students join the group the librarian
will be able to see reports on the titles users have in their personal library; providing an insight
into the articles they are reading.
Additionally, librarians will be able to see from the users profile the articles and books they
have recently authored and published. The MIE enables much greater transparency in this
area, since its not always simple for librarians to discover all the recent publications from all
their researchers. Reports on the readership for these publications are also available. In
addition all libraries using Symplectic
15
as the central repository can upload all publications
created by their researchers from Mendeley into Symplectic to ensure they are not missing out
on any titles.
Another important functionality is the option to assist librarians in making Mendeley more
useful for their researchers by uploading their A-Z lists including the ability to link to the
electronic resources of the library.
This internal overview allows librarians to genuinely understand which topics are being
explored by researchers and students, they make decisions based on the type of content that
14 Six Studies on Changing Research Practices. Summaries and selected quotes.
http://www.slideshare.net/aesposito/six-studies-on-changing-research-practices-summaries-and-selected-quotes
15 Symplectic: http://www.symplectic.co.uk/






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is actually used and make purchasing decisions based on trends; subjects where usage is
growing or declining. For the student and researcher this greater insight into their working
lives ensures they can work with the newest and most relevant content available in their topics
of interest.
The institution can also upload their own citation style, so their members can select it when
using their own version of Mendeley, saving time and effort for both students and researchers.
One of the many ways libraries add value to institutions is in assisting students with wider
reading and discovery. With the Mendeley Institutional Edition its possible for teachers to set
up course pack to direct students to the reading lists. This means that the teachers can use a
single place to make all course specific content available for students and students can
navigate easily from core content to wider reading using all the benefits of that the
collaborative Mendeley system provides. Students will be able to see easily that there is a
vibrant community researching these topics outside the classroom.

Research collaboration in the age of Social Media
See below how the combination of the Mendeley Insititutional Editions and the Mendeley
platform join to an unique solution that will drive research productivity and collaboration,
supported by the library.








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The Mendeley Institutional Edition strives to bring the library into the social space that
Mendeley creates. A space that goes far beyond the functionality that the name Reference
Manager would imply.
Do we need academic libraries in the age of the internet? The question is likely to be asked
again and again over the coming decade, just as it was in the last. It contains the assumption
that a library is essentially a place to store books, rather than seeing the librarian partnering
with researchers, providing guidance to students and contributing to the strategic goals of the
institution.
The Internet has become an essentially social space, creating a far more important question:
Do we need academic librarians in the age of the Internet?
The answer is an emphatic yes and we hope that the Mendeley Institutional Edition will
become their most indispensable tool.







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About SWETS
Swets is the global market leader in managing professional information. We develop and
deliver innovating services which enable the use of knowledge to the full extent. Clients and
publishers in today's complex information marketplace are spread over 160 countries and we
service them from more than twenty offices around the world. Swets has been included in E-
Content Magazine's "100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" for the
past six years and is the only information agent to be ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global
basis - a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.




























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External References
Do We Need Academic Libraries? A Position Paper of the Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/doweneedacademic.cfm
If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume42/IftheAcademicLibrar
yCeasedtoEx/158111
Social media and research workflow
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf
Academic research in 140 characters or less
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54084667/Academic-research-in-140-characters-or-less
As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic
measurement of twitter and other online activity
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/11/21/altmetrics-twitter/
Citation Styles Language is an open XML based language to describe the formatting of citations and
bibliographies
http://citationstyles.org/
Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle
http://dev.mendeley.com/api-binary-battle/
Reference Manager Overview
http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/reference-manager-overview/
Refworks Zotero and Mendeley Three Way Comparison Chart 2011
http://www.slideshare.net/giustinid/ref-works-mendeley-zotero
Electronic Resources Reviews and Reports, Mendeley, Eugene Barsky, Science and Engineering Librarian,
University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia
Oauth
http://www.oauth.net/
Social media and research workflow
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf
The Value of Academic Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/val_report.pdf

Six Studies on Changing Research Practices. Summaries and selected quotes
http://www.slideshare.net/aesposito/six-studies-on-changing-research-practices-summaries-and-
selected-quotes
Symplectic
http://www.symplectic.co.uk/
Supply users with a premium reference manager
Encourage social collaboration among users
Enable direct access to library content
Analyze research trends and content usage
Extend the reach of your researchers publications
Setting new
standards in
research
collaboration
RESEARCH THE MENDELEY WAY
Researchers and students around the world are turning to
reference management software, such as Mendeley, to manage
their citations and organize their work. With more than 1.5 million
users Mendeley has rapidly transformed the academic research
landscape, creating a unique, user-led environment that
encourages and facilitates collaboration among peers. If your
library is debating the best way to participate, contribute and add
value to the digital workfow of research, Mendeley Institutional
Edition is the opportunity youve been waiting for.
CONNECT USERS AND EMPOWER
THEIR RESEARCH
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ASSIST RESEARCHERS IN KEY TASKS
Help users discover information and enable direct access to full
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collaborate with researchers in similar felds of study worldwide.
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For Students & Researchers
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For Libraries
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Mendeley Institutional Edition powered by Swets places the
library at the center of the digital workfow of research. It
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VALUE FOR STUDENTS, RETURN ON
INVESTMENT FOR LIBRARIES.
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Learn More
Contact us today to arrange a free demo or visit our website
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