2011-07-26 10.02 Mendeley for Librarians.wmv Collaborative Research in Philosophy - Christopher P. Long's ePortfolio. Today in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee/Paterno Library, my undergraduate research assistant, Lisa Lotito, and I gave a presentation about the workflow we use in doing philosophical research. I have written in some detail about my basic research cycle, but this presentation allowed us to articulate more fully how we use the collaborative power of digital media to do scholarly research in philosophy. The presentation, the recording for which I embed below, articulated how we created a shared collection on Mendeley to manage pdf resources, how Lisa added notes to Mendeley summarizing some of the main points of those articles and how they related to my thesis. We discuss how I use Dropbox to collect all the documents and Evernote and GoodReader to annotate the pdf files. We used direct messaging in Twitter to communicate in a dynamic and asynchronous way that allowed me to request more resources or ask Lisa to look for specific issues in the secondary literature.
Mendeley: Download vs Upload Growth. There was a lot of talk about Mendeley at OAI7 in Geneva, especially the news that in the first quarter of 2011 the number of articles downloaded for free jumped from 300,000 to 800,000. That's really good news, confirming Mendeley as a successful service in the Open Access domain. Having done an analysis of Mendeley's impact on Open Access (see Comparing Social Sharing of Bibliographic Information with Institutional Repositories) just under a year ago, I thought I'd repeat the analysis to see the extent of the impact of their growth on deposits as well as downloads.
Results: the number of members of the Computer Science discipline appears to be 2.2x larger than last August (increased to 74736 from 34230.) Of these, only 12102 appear in the Computer Science directory listing, whose contents are now filtered by Mendeley according to their "profile completion"; the gross number was kindly provided for me by Steve Dennis at Mendeley. Compare Mendeley. Mendeley: If you liked that research paper, try this one. Why I won't be a Mendeley university advisor (for now) Mendeley, my tool of choice for bibliographic reference management and sharing, just announced their "University Advisor" program.
Basically, they're asking academics to advocate for them on campus in exchange for free premium accounts. I already advocate for Mendeley unofficially, because I think it is useful and its usefulness will grow in proportion to the number of people who adopt it. But I'd rather not be officially associated with Mendeley, mostly because it's not yet a sufficiently polished product.
Mendeley is a useful product with a lot of potential, but it still has a lot of serious problems. Some of these seem like telltale signs that the basic software and data infrastructure on which Mendeley is built has fundamental and dangerous flaws. For instance, my Mendeley collection has 516 documents according to both the Desktop app and the web app.
But the "my library stats" page says I have only 328 articles. Duplicates. Bibtex. Sharing. I could go on, but you get the idea. » A Comparison of RefWorks, Zotero & Mendeley 2011 The Search Principle blog. Review: Mendeley for citation management & academic networking | Library Sphere. NYU Libraries invited the folks at Mendeley to run a hands-on Mendeley workshop at Bobst Library this past week. For an hour and a half, NYU faculty, students, and librarians explored this increasingly popular research tool. NYU Libraries already licenses/supports a number of other familiar and convenient citation management tools: RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, etc. So why consider yet another one? Unlike most other such applications, Mendeley is designed to be an academic networking tool as well as a platform-independent citation management tool that syncs your data across all your computers.
The Mendeley desktop tool is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and there are “lite” versions for the iPhone and iPad. Mendeley combines a light-weight, web-based interface with a more highly-functional desktop application for managing your citations and your documents, as well as your workgroups (more below). Academic networking is at the core of Mendeley’s business model. How well does it work? HLWIKI Canada. Are you interested in contributing to HLWIKI International? Contact: dean.giustini@ubc.ca To browse other articles on a range of HSL topics, see the A-Z index. Last Update 8 August 2013 Introduction Objectives To provide introduction to three citation management tools, Mendeley, RefWorks and Zotero To highlight the advantages/disadvantages (pros/cons) and facilitate a comparison for participants To begin a dialogue with UBC grad students and faculty about managing their scholarly references Session overview Managing references, articles and bibliographies is a critical part of virtually every academic or scholarly research project.
This workshop is an opportunity to explore three current reference management tools in a computer lab with three UBC reference librarians who use them in their work. Who Graduate students & faculty members Location Woodward Library, Teaching Lab - Rm B25 Facilitator(s) Length See also More comparison tables. Mendeley vs. Zotero comparison | Scientific Blog. Mendeley and Zotero are both bibliography managers used by a wide audience. Both have pros and cons, and I still can’t decide with which one of them I will live long and happy life. Both of them are free, in active development phase, and able to extract PDF metadata. pros: Automatically adds the PDF files from selected directories.Renames the files automatically using the extracted paper Author/Date/Paper titleThe renamed files are relocated automatically into a single place (directory).Ergonomic interface, without too much buttons to press…The information on papers is automatically updated from the users input.Metadata extraction is better, and the amount of extracted papers, until the Google scholar locks, is much larger. 500MB data storage + 500MB groups storageThe Bibtex citation key is editable cons: Notes pane is horrible: text only, with “bold” and “underline” modifiers.
In conclusion, if Mendeley will add advanced search, and external note editor, I will stick with it. Like this: » RefWorks, Zotero & Mendeley – Comparisons 2010 The Search Principle blog. Accessing Your Zotero Library on an iPad with Mendeley. One of the most exciting developments with the research tool and citation manager Zotero is the push for Zotero Everywhere, a browser-independent version that we’ve already covered on ProfHacker.
You can now use the alpha version of Standalone Zotero with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer on any of the three major computing platforms: Windows, Mac, and Linux. But the one place you can’t use Zotero—and where I often need it most—is on the iPad. It’s true that if you have a 3G iPad or a wifi connection, you can view your Zotero library from within Safari (provided you have enabled syncing). The web interface, however, is not searchable or optimized for a mobile experience. And plus, you have to be online to access it. Enter Mendeley’s universal iPhone/iPad app. The workflow is fairly seamless, but does take multiple steps: Import your Zotero collection into Mendeley’s desktop application (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux). That’s it! I do have a few caveats, however: From Zotero to Mendeley.
This is a New Year’s resolution that has actually come to pass. I have been a fan of Zotero for more than two years, a time in which Firefox was my browser of choice. By 6 months ago I had built a collection of about 800 references made so easy by the increasing capability of the Zotero Firefox extension. Zotero grew to about 2.5MB, a quarter the size of Firefox itself, as its feature list was extended.
The constant updates began to be annoying especially as Firefox required restarting each time. Like many others I used 2 or 3 different machines when building the Zotero collection, a problem since Zotero initially assumed a single, local database of references. I gorged heavily on Zotero’s excellent facility not only to store a web link reference but also to store the actual contents of a web page with all its images, styles and scripts intact. Zotero finally supported shared libraries and associated files but was limited to only 500 MB for free so I was stuck with Live Mesh.
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