Why Mendeley Institutional Edition at ETH Zurich?
Implementation of MIE at ETH Zurich
Looking back: experiences with MIE so far
Looking ahead: plans and wishes
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Webinar, 20 May 2015
Deborah Kyburz, Product Manager Mendeley at ETH-Bibliothek Zurich
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Mendeley at ETH Zurich
Looking back and ahead
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Agenda
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• Who are we? ETH Zurich and ETH-Bibliothek
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• Why Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)?
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• Implementation of MIE
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• Looking back: experiences with MIE so far
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• Looking ahead: plans and wishes
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1. Who are we? ETH Zurich and ETH-Bibliothek
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Founded 1855
16 departments in the fields of:
Architecture and civil engineering
Engineering sciences
Natural sciences and mathematics
System-oriented natural sciences
Management and social sciences
18,000 students
500 professors
8,000 members of staff
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ETH Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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Founded 1855
ETH Zurich’s main library
National centre for technical and
scientific information
Collections
Architecture and civil engineering
Engineering sciences
Natural sciences and mathematics
System-oriented natural sciences
Management and social sciences
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ETH-Bibliothek
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Collection of Prints and Drawings
Cultural Assets Collection
Earth Science Collections
ETH Zurich University Archives
focusTerra
Image Archive
Maps
Material Collection
Max Frisch Archive
Rare Books
Thomas Mann Archive
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Collections and Archives
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DOI-Desk & DataCite
Registration of DOIs for Swiss academic and
research institutions
Open Access
Consulting, information events
Open Access memberships
Institutional Repository
ETH E-Collection
Institutional Bibliography
ETH E-Citations
And much more: MIE, allocation of ISBN,
copyright issues, …
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E-Publishing @ ETH-Bibliothek
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Key figures
Selection, end of 2014
Analogue resources 7.9 M
Digital resources 546,000
Electronic journals 17,000
Subscribed journals (print) 5,400
E-books 164,000
Printed papers 2.9 M
Databases 144
Documents in ETH E-Collection 30,000
Reports and microfiches 2.2 M
Image documents 2.2 M
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Why Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)? –
Evaluation
Chances
Online presence in a social
network for researchers
Intensify contact to
researchers
Analysis of user behaviour
Risks
Legal aspects
Financial aspects
Strategic development
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Why Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)? –
Goals
Be present on one of the most popular social
networks for researchers
Support ETH-members with collaborative and web-
based knowledge management
Introduce an internal instrument to analyse the
reading and publication behaviour of ETH-members in
Mendeley
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Identify journals that are often being read by ETH-members
Identify journals where ETH-members often publish
Identify articles and authors that are being read the most
Identify research focus and research groups
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Why Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)? –
Potentially added value
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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1. Work out
training concept
2. Coordinate
with IT
3. Set up & test
group profile
4. Training of
staff
5. Invite pre-
defined users,
give admin rights
to selected staff
6. Marketing
7. Send out
invitations via
Mendeley
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Implementation of MIE – Initial phase
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Mendeley: ETH Zurich Institutional Group
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Looking back: experiences with MIE so far
Sign-Ups: Students, PH.D. Students, Post Doc, Other Researchers,
Professors, Librarians
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Identify journals that are often being read by ETH-members
Identify journals where ETH-members often publish
Identify articles and authors that are being read the most
Identify research focus and research groups
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Looking back: experiences with MIE so far –
Potentially added value
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User-feedback in trainings (Andy Müller)
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Looking back: experiences with MIE so far
Advantages
Free
User-friendly and intuitive
Easy use/application in Word
Access to library without desktop
version
Social network for researchers
Disadvantages
Limited number of group members
without MIE
Compatibility to LaTeX
Not quite as renowned as EndNote
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Frequently asked questions during trainings
Are there legal problems regarding the exchange of
papers?
Where will my data be stored (hosting)?
What happens to the storage space (my stored
documents respectively) when I leave ETH Zurich?
Is there a counterpart to the EndNote function “Find Full
Text” for PDF files?
How about the compatibility to LaTeX?
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Looking back:
experiences with MIE so far
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Looking back: experiences with MIE so far
Sign-Ups: Students, PH.D. Students,
Post Doc, Other Researchers, Professors, Librarians