aaas 2014: how the web changes collaboration
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Social Tools for Serious Science
William Gunn, Ph.D.Head of Academic OutreachMendeley
@mrgunn
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Enabling Collaboration in a Networked World
• The Web is transformative• Modern research requires collaboration
• Networks, not destinations
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A historical perspective
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Change and Disruption
• The music industry was first• futile resistance• worst fears not confirmed• providing a product very many
people want is in fact quite sustainable
• The Web changed discovery and delivery
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More Change and Disruption
• Blogging changed how we communicated
• Professional media organizations still exist
• A service that gives people what they want is a quite sustainable business model
• The Web changed engagement
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Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378.
Authors Publishers
Printers
Shippers
Booksellers
Readers
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Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378.
Authors Publishers
Printers
Shippers
Booksellers
Readers
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AuthorsReaders Internet
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Social Networks
Opportunities for discoveryOpportunities for building relationships
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Adams, Jonathan. "Collaborations: the fourth age of research." Nature 497.7451 (2013): 557-560.
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King, Christopher (2012) Thomson Reuters Annual Reporthttp://ar.thomsonreuters.com/_files/pdf/MultiauthorPapers_ChrisKing.pdf
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• The Web is being underutilized in research
• research increasingly requires more collaboration.
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From consumer to provider
• Can we bring tools and user experience from other parts of the web to scholarly communication?
• People expect to easily share and discover music and photos, why not academic papers?
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Leveraging the Web requires an open infrastructure
• HTML: open standard• TCP/IP: open standard• Wordpress: open source, open API• Twitter: open source, open API• Google Scholar: Not open• Facebook: Not open
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Networks, not destinations
• Not a website for scientists• Scientists, on the web
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...and aggregates research
data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data…
Install Mendeley Desktop
Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
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Read papers + keep track of notes
470M documents
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Connecting researchers
Search
ReadAnnotateOrganize
Write
Import
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2.7M researchers
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300K collaborative groups
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New forms of discovery
• Mendeley Suggest– personalized recommendations based
on reading history• related articles
– relatedness based on document similarity
• recommender frameworks– implement recommendations as a
service• third-party recommender services
– serve niche audiences
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We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud
http://code-research.eu/
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What would people build if they could get the data?
• Impact Story – get credit for all your work
• PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers
• Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries
• Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (from Digital Science/NPG)
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