Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast: Victor Henning on the future of Mendeley

Tech Weekly Podcast: Victor Henning on the future of Mendeley

This week Charles Arthur meets Victor Henning co-founder and CEO of Mendeley the academic and research focused online network. Mendeley was recently purchased by the publisher of the Lancet, Reed Elsevier and Victor discusses the advantages offered by the historic science publisher for Mendeley the online upstart.

The Mendeley Dilemma

I just came across this very interesting article commenting on the sale of Mendeley to Elsevier - oh dear!

Mendeley: Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social networking ( Review )

Would anyone in the RU Library like to offer to investigate Mendeley (Debbie is presently testing Zotero)?

Purpose: This paper aims to highlight the productivity and collaborative features of Mendeley, a reference management tool, as well as recommendations on how Mendeley can be incorporated into an information literacy program. Design/methodology/approach: Results from a literature review and feedback from students and faculty were used to provide background for this paper. Mendeley's features and potential benefits to librarians and researchers are discussed. Findings: Feedback from students and faculty who use Mendeley are very positive owing to its productivity and social networking and collaboration features. The literature highlights Mendeley's usefulness in the context of citation management software. Practical implications: The paper provides useful tips and best practices for integrating Mendeley into information literacy sessions and workshops for students and faculty. The paper also discusses how teaching Mendeley can facilitate scholarly communication between researchers and broaden the role of librarians on campus. Originality/value: The paper shows that Mendeley enables higher level information literacy by helping users focus on locating and organizing information and spend less time on citation details. Mendeley's social networking features are compatible with emerging work practices, facilitating collaboration among researchers through group's functions and open sharing of information through groups and publication lists.

(Mendeley) Connecting academic research to the outside world

(Worth a read)
"....One of the core ideas behind Mendeley has always been to use the huge amounts of data our users are uploading to make science more open and transparent. The Mendeley Institutional Edition creates a data dashboard on an institutional level: it tells a university exactly which journals are being read by their researchers, which lets librarians optimize their journal subscriptions and provide a better service to their researchers. It also enables the university to track their research output – what journals are their faculty publishing in, and how is this research being taken up in the rest of academia and in the outside world? Moreover, when a university subscribes to the Mendeley Institutional Edition, all of their students and faculty get upgraded to Mendeley premium accounts – we have now started to roll this out at places like Stanford University...."

Mendeley instruction session on YouTube

This is a recording of the Mendeley for Librarians instructional session

What tool do you prefer? Reference management preferences at the CfA. | Digital Scholarship @ Harvard

Perhaps we too should conduct an online survey of users at RU? (Rhodes currently subscribes to Refworks)

"What prompted the question was a debate over preference: Papers, Zotero or Mendeley? Notice, there is no mention of RefWorks, which is a tool that the Harvard Library has purchased (Zotero and Mendeley are free, Papers is available for a minimal fee)"

What tool do you prefer? Reference management preferences at the CfA. | Digital Scholarship @ Harvard