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1. NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
Empowering the Research Community for Better
Outcomes & Adding Value
LibraryConnect Seminar Beirut - April 17, 2012
Michael Habib, MSLS
Product Manager, SciVerse Scopus

3. OUTPUT IS INCREASING
Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data
http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

4. SO IS QUALITY
Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data
http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

5. AND COMPETITION
Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data
http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

6. AND COLLABORATION
View search term analysis on Scopus sent on April 13, 2012

7. KEY FORCES SHAPING RESEARCH
Government Policies
LEAN Global
Technology RESEARCH Competition
Trend exacerbated
Workflow Inefficiencies by economic
downturn

9. In Q4 2010, smartphones overtook PC shipments
Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d96e3bd8-33ca-11e0-b1ed-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1roqGU2h7

10. GLOBAL
Active mobile broadband subscriptions Per 100 people
2011 1,186,000,000 17%
2010 870,000,000 12.6%
ARAB STATES
Active mobile broadband subscriptions Per 100 people
2011 48,000,000 13.3%
2010 36,000,000 10.2%
Source: International Telecommunication Union (November 2011) via
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#phone-shipments

11. 1. Younger (<45)
3. Educated (University)
5. Financially well-off
Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Summary.aspx

13. 10 BILLION

14. 15 BILLION

15. 25 BILLION

16. 10 BILLION – JANUARY 2011
15 BILLION – JULY 2011
25 BILLION – MARCH 2012
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-05/apple-app-downloads/53372352/1

17. A&G RESEARCHERS
Mobile Device Usage Trends
DO THEY USE APPS?(N=66)
DEVICE OWNERSHIP
2010 2011 Personally Professionally
(N=97) (N=67)
39% 37%
Laptop 82% n/a
61% 63%
Smartphone
31% 77%
4% 11% TOP WORK RELATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED ON THE MOBILE (N=67)
iPad/Tablet
75% Communication 43% Searching an article
3% 10% 61%Collaboration 22% Recording experimental findings
E-reader 46% Reading an article 21% Annotate/comment on data sets
Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace

18. LIBRARIANS
Mobile Device Usage Trends
DO THEY USE APPS?(N=60)
DEVICE OWNERSHIP
2010 2011 Personally Professionally
(N=87) (N=63)
Laptop 76% n/a
58%
YES 40%
42% 60%
Smartphone
40% 63%
7% 21% ACTIVITIES OFTEN/SOMETIMES CONDUCTED ON THE MOBILE (N=62)
iPad/Tablet
76% Communication 39% Searching an article
18% 22% 52%Reading an article 15% Preparing presentations
E-reader 50% Collaboration 13% Writing a publication
Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace

19. Scopus & ScienceDirect free mobile apps for subscribers
SciVerse Scopus Alerts (iPhone, BlackBerry and Android)
•30 day trial before logging-in or subscribing
•Search for and view Scopus abstracts and references
•Set and receive search and citation alerts
•Share abstract links through email and Twitter
•Save an abstract for easy retrieval later
SciVerse ScienceDirect (iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android)
•Search for articles by Keyword, Author or Journal
•View Full Text Articles
•Save articles for offline viewing
•Create search alerts
•Share article links through email and Twitter
Alerts and settings on your desktop version will not be saved to your mobile
Allows institutional subscribers to access apps using their institutional login
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20. Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Summary.aspx

22. SCIVERSE?

23. SCIVERSE
ScienceDirect
– Elsevier’s online full text portal with 11 million full text
articles from 2000+ journals as well as thousands of books
Scopus
– World’s largest abstract and citation database with 40
million abstracts, millions of author and affiliation profiles
and reference and citation data.
Hub
– Comprehensive search covering ScienceDirect, Scopus and
the Scirus scientific web index covering 400 million records
from patents databases, arXiv, lab pages, news and more.

24. SCIVERSE APPLICATIONS
open, interoperable, domain specific

25. APPLICATIONS

26. VISUALIZATION

27. ANALYSIS TOOLS

28. LINKING DATA

29. SMARTER SEARCH

30. WORKFLOW TOOLS
• Document Management
– eReader Formats
– Send To Kindle
– Send to DropBox
– AmmoRack
• Data Extraction/Manipulation
– Table Downloader
– Large Image Viewer
– Image Data Extractor
• Awareness
– MostDownloaded
– Journal Minder (in development)

31. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
• Literature and data want to
be together
– Mass of data available to researchers outside
the formal literature is huge and growing
– This is inefficient - task switching between
multiple interfaces, hard to find resources...
– Smart apps can facilitate interoperability,
bring relevant data into context with papers

32. (Researchers, N = 3824 ; study by Publishing Research Consortium, 2010)
High importance but not
easily accessible

33. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
• Customers expect the tools
they use to work together
– Google Gmail on your Apple iPhone synced to
your Dell laptop running Microsoft Windows
– SciVerse is one tool among many our users are
using and our customers are subscribing to
– APIs and an open platform brings SciVerse to
where users are and lets other products add
value to SciVerse

35. ADDED VALUE
“bX is already
available on the
eLibrary, and is
proving very useful in
presenting users with
highly relevant
material beyond what
they find through
their own searches.
Adding bX to SciVerse
will bring added value
to those systems too.“
Gill McDonald – Librarian,
Cardiff University

36. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
• Domain specificity is the
future of research tools
– The current one-size-fits-all model of
publishing is print-centric and needlessly
constricting
– Publishers/database providers cannot build
tools for every single scientific discipline
– An open platform is the obvious solution – let
the research community build the tools they
need

38. “THIS IS A MEDIEVAL WAY OF
COMMUNICATING
INFORMATION. WE HAVE TO
WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE
THIS. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE
WE CAN DO.”

39. SIMPLE THINGS

40. CONNECTING DATA IN CONTEXT

41. CONNECTING DATA IN CONTEXT

42. BEYOND APPS – SCOPUS FOR
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
www.developers.elsevier.com/devcms/content-policies#toc_Institutional_repositories,_

43. Top 5 Institutional Apps for ScienceDirect
eReader Formats: Download articles from
ScienceDirect to any eReader, anytime
iSpeech Audio Reader: Listen to an article read aloud
on ScienceDirect
Table Download: Download HTML data tables from
articles in .csv files
Altmetric: Measure the attention articles get on
social media sites
Co-Author Network: Visualize the network of your top
Co-Authors
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44. Top 5 Institutional Apps for Scopus
Author Wordle: Create a word cloud from an author's
most recent papers in Scopus
EMTREE: See suggested synonyms as you search,
powered by EMTREE
Co-Author Explorer: See an intuitive graphical
representation of an author's papers and
collaborators
Lipids Structures : Identify lipid names or synonyms in
Scopus records
F1000: See which Scopus articles experts at F1000 have
identified as important
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46. Traditional
& PDF-like
Navigation
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47. Task-based
Add value
& Context
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48. How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher
problems into solutions
Background:
We noticed that very often,
when the image and related
text do not fit the same page,
scientists have two PDFs open
on their screen (or on two
different screens) at the same
time. These allow scientists to
simultaneously view the image
and read the explanatory text
Since each pane can be scrolled independently, it is possible to have both
the text and an image in view at once
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49. How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher
problems into solutions (2/3)
Background:
When discussing with electrochemists
potential options for interactive charts, we
were told that very often scientists print
the article and then use the ruler to draw
horizontal and vertical lines on the printed
figure to manually measure, which values
correspond to a specific point of interest
on the graph. Depending on the resolution
and quality of the image, those
measurements are not always very
accurate
Crosshairs are most commonly represented as intersecting lines in the shape of a
cross ("+"). Using the “crosshairs” functionality, the reader can get access to the
underlying data at any location on the graph
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50. How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher
problems into solutions (3/3)
Background:
While observing cognitive psychologists
reading scientific articles, we noticed that a
few people were drawing a-kind-of
scheme / flowchart when they were reading
the article section explaining the
experimental set-up and methods. As we
were explained later, those flowcharts often
help scientists to gain a better understanding
of the experiment, especially if the
procedure was rather complex
Psychology flowcharts (displayed in the right sidebar) provide a graphical overview
of an experimental procedure. It is also possible to select and compare several
flowcharts by opening them in a new window
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51. Pulling data in from Protein Data Bank
 Author-tagged
 Data from PDB
 3D Visualisation
 Select
 Zoom
 Rotate
 All inside article
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52. Structure Viewer
 Author-created
 Supplementary
data files
 Visualisation
 Added value
functionality:
 InChI key
 Google
 Reaxys
 All iinside article
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53. Map Viewer
 Author-created
 Supplementary
data (KML) files
 Visualisation
 Full Google Maps
functionality
 All inside article
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54. Recap on how technology is leading to better outcomes
Mobile SciVerse ScienceDirect Article
Apps Applications Page Redesign
1. 2. 3.
Outline Article Extra’
s
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55. THE END
• Michael Habib
• Product Manager, SciVerse Scopus
• habib@elsevier.com
• Twitter: @habib

57. Appendix
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58. Do Researchers Use eBooks? (2009)
9% 8% 11% 4% 10% “I neither have nor
want online books”
19% 28% 30% 34% 21% “I want to use online
books but do not have
access”
“I have access, and
63% 51% 53% 51% 47% I use online books”
Source: Global survey responses from 500 researchers & librarians,
Elsevier & S.M.S. Research, 2009

59. Breadth of coverage Lebanon
Number of documents in Scopus
with Lebanese country affiliation
in 2007 – 2011
3 active Lebanese titles in Scopus of which 2 Scopus-unique

60. TAKE NOTICE
“Why don’t we have such developments in
Open Access?” – PHIL BOURNE, FOUNDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
“SciVerse lets scientists essentially create custom
apps "solutions" integrating useful other s/w for
their own purposes.” – ALYSSA GOODMAN, HARVARD
“This app thing rocks! I never thought you would
get the OpenSocial mess to work so quickly. I
hope people use it.” – MAX HÄUßLER, UCSC, text2genome.org

61. Feedback shows that users are very positive
 “The new article format gives more options. I like it!”
 It “helps to minimize time required to read an article”.
 ”Although I still prefer to read the article in a PDF format, I
will definitely check the online version because of the extra
features. Well done, Elsevier!”
 “This will reduce my need to print articles.”
 “Both authors and readers will benefit from this new article
display.”
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62. “For blind people this (iSpeech Audio
Reader App) is making them enter a
whole new world.”
Librarian, Middle East
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63. OUTPUT IS INCREASING
Source: SciVal Analytics - http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

64. SO IS QUALITY
Source: SciVal Analytics - http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

65. KEY WEB TRENDS
Openness & Personalization Collaboration &
Interoperability Trusted Views
“Give me your data, “Know who I am “The right contacts
my way” and what I want” at the right time”

66. Number of
Title Date Activity Type Community
Responses
Your mobile pulse June 2010 Survey All communities 238
Mobile Applications: Usage Researchers
June 2011 Survey 177
& Awareness and Librarians
Mobile Applications: Researchers
June 2011 Survey 42
ScienceDirect & Scopus and Librarians
Researchers
The Future of mobile apps July 2011 Discussion 107
and Librarians
Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific
workplace by segment - July 2011
Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace
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