Mendeley for e-collaboration

NETWORKING AND E-COLLABORATION:

MENDELEY'S TOOLS

FOR RESEARCH GROUPS

Francesca Concia20.03.2014 EDUCAFE, METID – Politecnico di Milano

THE CLAIM

It’s time to change the way we do research!

Collaborate easily with other researchers online.

Connect with colleagues and securely share your papers, notes and annotations.

Discover papers, people and public groups.

Share bibliographies with your colleagues through a private group.

THE PROMISE

3 STEPS TO COLLABORATEJo

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Doc

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ts -yours-of others

Com

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relationships

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There are three types of groups:

Private groups - These private groups are visible only to members, who can share papers and notes.

Invite-only groups - These groups are visible to the public, but each has an owner who administers the group.

Open groups - Anyone can join and contribute to these groups. They’ll be a great way to build community-driven collections of literature around a subject.

MENDELEY GROPUS

Joining a public group is easy and let you

to read up on new topics,

to find ongoing research,

to follow curated bibliographies

to get involved in discussions,

to build an online presence,

to create an academic profile,

to upload your papers,

to publicize your research,

to discover new collaborators.

JOIN A PUBLIC GROUP!

CREATE, JOIN OR FOLLOW A GROUP!

Group owners• Create and set the group• Invite and accept people

Group members• Share resources with others• Get notified when others share resources to the group

Group followers• Browse all shared resources• Get notified when others share resources to the group• Anyone can follow

INVITE OR ACCEPT AN INVITATION!

The group owner can invite colleagues, sending a message

The invited colleague receives an email

notification

Upgrade- to share and collaborate with up to 50 people - to create unlimited number of private groups - to get unlimited group library space

THE TEAM PLAN

Free account has some restrictions about: - number of papers - number of members: only 3

You can refine your search to full-text PDFs

DISCOVER PAPERS!

SAVE THE PAPER TO YOUR LIBRARY!

SHARE PAPERS!

Mendeley desktop

FIND THE PAPER IN YOUR LIBRARY!

ANNOTE THE SHARING PAPER!

Group members can:

• see added papers and folders to the group on their newsfeed• comment and like to start discussion• watch projects progress over time • see when a group member adds a note, highlight or summary to a group document

COMMUNICATE!

LOOK AT THE MESSAGE BOX

PhD Students

Postdoctoral Researchers

Professors/Lecturers

Masters Students

Academic Researchers

Librarians

Commercial R&D Professionals

Undergraduates

Government Researchers

NGO Researchers

Other Professionals

USERS

PhD Students

Postdoctoral Researchers

Professors/Lecturers

Masters Students

Academic Researchers

USERS ADVANTAGES - 1To complete thesis proposal

To work online with other people

To share documents

To find useful resources

To find like minded individuals

To streamline the collaborative writing process

To store and sort papers

To search within collection

To make references in texts

To receive suggestions about articles

Librarians

Commercial R&D Professionals

Undergraduates

Government/NGO Researchers

Other Professionals

USERS ADVANTAGES - 2

To create a profile

To find experts in every field

To share reading lists and discover what others are reading

To organize knowledge

To understand where the research is going to

To connect with an author

To create an online presence

To collaborate on project with specific topics

USER SUPPORT

- Guides

- Videotutorials

- FAQ

A MENDELEY BOOK

http://blog.mendeley.com/community-relations/mendeley-advisor-writes-a-book-about-mendeley/

COMPARISON

OF REFERENCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

Which one is the best reference management software?

The answer is: It depends, because different people have different needs.

https://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of-reference-managers-mendeley-vs-zotero-vs-docear/

http://www.mendeley.com/mendeley-institutional-edition/

https://www.mendeley.com/upgrade/storage

https://www.mendeley.com/upgrade/team/

UPGRADE

To have more group members

To have a bigger storage

To monitor the research activity in the istitution

A quali problemi

effettivamente riscontrati

Mendeley

offre una risposta?