Slides from the March 16, 2017, Library Connect webinar with Christian Defeo and Eleonora Presani.

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Agenda – Christian Defeo
Introduction
Work smart
• Create a document library
• Download a citation from a library
• Download a document from a library
• Mark up documents
• Record lab/experiment results
Work together
• Find collaborators
• Create a group
• Share documents
Stay up-to-date
• Set up an article alert
• Follow a researcher
• Get news feeds and updates

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Introduction — Who am I?
• Product marketing manager at Elsevier since June 2016
• Also have an academic pedigree:
- First PhD in Creative Writing, University of Southampton 2010
- Working on 2nd PhD, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at
Wolfson School, Loughborough University since 2015
• Seen vast improvements in tools over time that are available to early
career researchers
• And they need them!

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Introduction cont’d
• According to IBM: “Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data
— so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created
in the last two years alone.”
• Much of that data isn’t Instagram photos; it’s genuine research data
• We need the latest tools to:
- Organize it all
- Stay up to date
- Connect with others
- …and to maintain the novelty of research

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Tip #1 – Create a document library
Use a reference tool (like Mendeley) to maintain a document library

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Tip #2 – Add citations
Use the reference manager to add citations; Mendeley, for example,
has a plugin that works with most word processors

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Tip #3 – Download documents
Use your reference manager to download documents

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Tip #4 – Highlight documents
Use the advanced features of reference managers to mark up your
documents, e.g., highlights!

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Tip #5 – Use an electronic lab notebook
Particularly for lab-based researchers, use an electronic lab
notebook!
• Surprising amount of labs still use paper notebooks; this
can lead to untidiness in maintaining research data
• Hivebench is geared toward biologists

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Tip #5 – Use an electronic lab notebook, cont’d

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Tip #6 – Join a research ecosystem
• Research has generally been a “social” activity;
whether with a team in a lab or across a vast
network of scientists spanning the globe
• Benjamin Franklin provides a good example of
such a network in the 18th century

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Tip #6 – Join a research ecosystem, cont’d
• Fortunately, we have much better tools than the Colonial Postal
System at our disposal!
• Your social network may be close to hand; research tools are turning
into research ecosystems — look at Mendeley on the web

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Tip #7 – Reach out and make a space of your own
It’s increasingly possible to use online tools to create a community of
practice.

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Tip #8 – Sharing is caring!
It’s possible to share references with others adding to the flow of
quality information for your network.

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Tip #9 – Set up alerts, offload some of the work
With so much new
information
available on a
daily basis, it can
be difficult to keep
track

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Tip #10 – Follow the leaders
Following the right researchers is also a powerful strategy

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Tip #11 – Look at your news feed
Many tools are
available to keep
up to date on the
news in a given
field. Make time
to look at your
news feed – the
results may
surprise you.

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Tip #12 – There is no one perfect tool
• Ultimately it comes down to:
- Features
- Performance
- Familiarity
• Elsevier is committed to making the research process easier in spite
of the avalanche of information out there.
• We want your feedback! We’re always looking to improve.

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About Me — Eleanora Presani
PhD in
Astroparticle
Physics
Managing
Editor
(Elsevier
Physics)
Publisher
particle and
nuclear
physics
(Elsevier)
Product
Manager
Scopus
New York
Trieste
(Italy)
Amsterdam
(The
Netherland
s)
Geneva
(Switzerland)
e.presani@elsevier.com

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Tip #13 – Register and log in to Scopus
Registering and logging in provides personalization options that allow
you to save, track and share your work.

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Tip #14 – Save your search
Save your
search query
for later use or
to share it with
other people

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Tip #14 – Save your search, cont’d
Save up to 200 search queries in a personal saved search list.

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Tip #15 – Set an alert for your search
Researchers will be notified when new results are found for queries.

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Tip #16 – Use search history to rerun searches
Scopus
document search
history is
remembered for
each session.
Look up searches
that were done
previously and
save them if
needed.

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Tip #17 – Edit your search
To edit and run queries again (particularly long ones), click the “edit
query” button on various pages, including:
• Search history
• Document results
• Saved searches pages
Afterwards, save the new search in your saved search list.

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Tip #17 – Edit your search, cont’d

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order
• If you don’t use all the refine options or if you have a preferred
refinement order that you would like to see on a Scopus results
page, you can rearrange and save the preferred order for your refine
panel.
• You can reset your custom refine panel sort order using the “restore
original settings” at the bottom of the refine panel.
• The “export refine” options allows you to export all the document
counts listed in the refine panel facets to a .csv file.

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order, cont’d

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order, cont’d

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Tip #19 – Share your document search results
On the
document
search results
page, select
the documents
you would like
to share and
click on the
email icon.

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Tip #20 – Advanced search / custom searching
• For custom searches
that require more
specific filtering the
advanced search
provides separate
field options.
• You can use “outline
query” to clean up
long queries and
provide a more
comprehensive
overview.

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Tip #21 – Manage your alerts
On your personal
alerts page, edit,
delete or temporarily
disable your alerts:
• Search
• Author citation
• Document citation

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Tip #22 – Save your documents to your custom list
Manually
select
documents
to save
them to a
new or
existing list.

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Tip #23 – Group authors together
On the author
details page, view
other potential
author matches
that might be the
same author as
the one displayed
on the author
details page and
group them
together.

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Tip #24 – Analyze search results
By year, source,
author, country,
subject area and
more, with
interactive plots
you can tweak
directly online

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Tip #24 – Analyze search results, cont’d

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Tip #25 – Compare sources to find the best one for you
To find the most
relevant
documents,
check out the
sources and
compare them
to each other.