Do
Libraries
meet
Research 2.0?

or
Collaborative Tools and their
Relevance for Research Libraries
Guus Van den Brekel,
Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
(UMCG), The Netherlands.
Member of
European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL)

The Problems? Everything 2.0 &
O Research
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l
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n
Workflow &
Collaboration
e Implications
for Research Libraries

Problems?
Library Disconnects
&
Bypassing the Library

The Global Environment Changed …
The web has become a
global laboratory for
communication and sharing

What are Researchers looking for on
the Web?
http://www.slideshare.net/Came
ronNeylon/science-in-the-
youtube-age-519472

What are Researchers looking for
on the Web?
• Tools for improving their workflow,
to gain efficiency
• Communication, sharing, collaboration,
dissemination research ideas and output
• to possibly get bigger recognition and
reward of their research output

Tools for collaboration out there
• Planning & Admin
• Workflow
• Data management
• Communication
• Sharing
• Analysis, statistical
• Publishing, (peer) reviewing
• Preservation, archiving
Unlimited …

Research 2.0 : some aspects
Communities & collaboration powered by web 2.0
Resources: creating, storing, organising, sharing,
exchange, distribution, browsing, searching, re-use,
enrich, re-create
Faster, more efficient, greater competetiveness,
repeatable, more productive …
Enables open feedback and reviews of work
A machine-understandable format allows others to
take the data and analyze it independently

Scientists are certainly
looking for it…

General Social Software
• Blogs, Wiki’s, Social Networks
i.g.Facebook
• Web-based office tools, Google Docs
• Sharing data, references, pictures, videos
• Communication, in all sorts
• Twitter? PloS
• Virtual worlds,
Second Life

Virtual
Worlds
Strong in visualization, education, teaching,
simulation, roleplay ánd worldwide collaborative
projects

By Scientists, for Scientists
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Labs
OpenWetWare

http://www.proteopedia.org
Proteopedia

http://sciencecommons.org/
NeuroCommons

http://scivee.tv
SciVee

http://rhogos.mc.man.ac.uk/gradconnect/login/index.php
ResearchConnect

http://openresearch.org
OpenResearch

But we also see others
offering services…
All kinds of parties research using
web 2.0 to connect and integrate into the
workflow of scientist and researchers.

Commercially, focus on Scientists

http://precedings.nature.com/
NaturePrecedings

http://www.mynetresearch.com
MyNetResearch

http://www.mendeley.com
Mendeley

http://www.biomedexperts.com
Biomedexperts

'What is happening in the world is
bypassing university libraries’
Professor Peter Murray-Rust

Reasons NOT to ignore
Social Networks and the tools offered
• Efficiency possibilities
• Build professional communities
– Research
– Management
• Build learning communities
• Build sharing communities
• Build community support through
outreach
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries,
pfa@umich.edu

More Reasons ….
• Connection, communication, collaboration,
consultation
• Discuss & share information (articles, photos,
videos, cases, data, methodologies)
• Q&A, rapid response (sometimes), serendipitous
discovery
• Global, international connections & opportunities
• Find employment & research opportunities
• Emerging trends, topics, medications, treatments,
insights in your field
Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries,
pfa@umich.edu

Do we see the libraries look for it
as well?
• The question is not whether the shift is
going to happen, but how fast?
• It will change the behaviour of researcher,
new ways of thinking and operating;
we should adapt

“(Get) Into The Workflow”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
And get to the people!

Network level Integrated
Personal
workflow local consumer
Workflow
Google, … environment?
RSS,
toolbars, .. Library web
presence
Resource
Institutional
sharing, …
Workflow
Portals,
CMS, IR, …
Consumer environments library
Management environment
…
Bought
Licensed
Faculty&
Digitized Aggregations
students
Source: Lorcan Dempsey, CIC 2007 Resource sharing

There are the Virtual Research
Networks (VREs)
• JISC VRE
• MS Sharepoint
• MyExperiment
• D4Science
• DARIAH

Key Points
• Communication
between researchers and librarians
• Play a role in the exchange and sharing of research-based
information in social network technologies
• Re-define the library, services, it’s systems, to reach:
Visibility, Findability, Searchability and Accessibility
• Branding and marketing the library:
embed & integrate
• Libraries should collaborate, communicate, cooperate,
facilitate, support learning & research

ScHARR Library Public Page (Netvibes)
http://www.netvibes.com/scharr

Strategical Implications
• Developing the supporting infrastructure for
– Creation
– Data management
– Communication
• Re-focus policy
Staff development & expertise
Soft-, hardware choice
• By collaboration and partnership with other
organizational parties, but also externally
• Embedded libraries
• Collaborative libraries

-There is a “battle” going on
for the Scientists -
“They got their work and data,
now they want the people as well ..
We should be there first …
and get them back quickly”

Thank you for your
attention!
Guus van den Brekel
Email: a.j.p.van.den.brekel@med.umcg.nl / brekelajp@gmail.com
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