When Harzing Meets Mendeley: An exploration of Web2.0 Tools for efficient collation and curation of Academic literature.

1. @BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

2. The Assumptions
 One needs to be familiar with:
 MMU Library Databases
 e.g. EBSCO
 Third Party Databases
 Google Scholar
 Excel
 Specifically Pivot Tables
 Use of Keywords/Variants/Boolean Operators:
 Digital* AND “Digital Marketing” AND Internet
Marketing NOT e-Marketing EXOR North
American Journal Jargon which no-one else
uses in the real world
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

3. The Problem…
 I wanted to investigate the historical background of a
topic
 When I began my search for the topic I formulated
the list of KW’s I needed to use
 But then I ran into trouble…
 Google Scholar indexes 10 results/page
 EBSCO indexes up to 50 results/page
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

4. To traverse this list of results meant on
average my activity was, as follows
1. Open Browser
2. Type KW
3. Read index (judging quality)
4. Click relevant result to open in a new tab
5. Open link
6. Log in via Institutional Login (Ad Nauseam)
7. Log in via Other Institutional Login (‘cos that one didn’t work)
8. Refresh Tab when finally logged in
9. Learn the article is available for the princely sum of $129.99
10. Make coffee/tea/go for a run/smoke crack to regain sanity
11. If successful, download .pdf to folder
12. Open, review and realise it’s rubbish
13. Repeat Steps 4-10
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22/01/2014

5. @BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

6. An extensive period of
‘displacement-activity-based
research’
 I devised a system to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Generate a large list of results (10,000)
Allow the user to manipulate a large volume of results
Traverse said list with a system of exclusion factors
Render a list of key references for consideration
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7. What is….Harzing POP
 Publish or Perish is a software program that
retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It
uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations,
then analyzes these and presents the following
metrics:
 Total number of papers and total number of
citations
 Average citations per paper, citations per author,
papers per author, and citations per year
 Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
 Egghe's g-index (Leo Egghe)
 The contemporary h-index
 Three variations of individual h-indices
 The average annual increase in the individual hindex
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 The age-weighted citation rate
Professor in
International
Management in the
Department of
Management &
Marketing of the
Faculty of Economics
and Commerce at the
University of Melbourne
in Australia
22/01/2014

8. @BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

9. What is…Mendeley
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

10. What is…Dropbox
Dropbox is a file hosting service that
offers cloud storage & file
synchronization:
• Allows users to create a special folder on
each of their computers, which then
synchronizes so that it appears to be the
same folder (with the same contents)
regardless of which computer is used to
view it.
• Files placed in this folder also are accessible
through a website and mobile phone
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applications.
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11. How do these work together?
Create Download folder in Dropbox for
Literature Searching Device
Upload files/pdf’s from
Dropbox via a ‘Watch
Folder’
Download files/pdf’s to Dropbox
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

12. The Professor has set a
surprise assignment.
 As part of your Dr. Philos.
Program, you are required to write
the following:
 “Provide a Historical Discussion of
Social Constructivism, indicating the
key authors since it’s inception”
 And I want it on my desk first
thing in the morning!!!
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

13. Let’s get to work
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

14. Phase 1
1. Use Pen and Paper to write down potential KW’s
2. Use Google Scholar to investigate KW
3. Use most relevant KW’s in Harzing
 Specify Time Frame
4. Export Results to Excel
 Exclude irrelevant results
 Arrange by Citation/Date/As you please
5. Use Pivot Table to drill down further
 By ABS ranked Journal
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 By Number of articles per journal
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15. Phase 2
6. Use Literature Searching Tool to download
references to Dropbox Folder (which is a Mendeley
Watch folder)
7. Read, Review, Make Systematic Notes In Mendeley
8. Use Word to formulate ideas
9. Use Mendeley Citation Engine & Bibliography Tool in
Word
10. Check Reference List and Citation Style
11. Print/Send Triple check and Celebrate!
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

16. The problems (as I see it)
1. Harzing is a slow clunky animal
2. Harzing pulls in a lot of crap (e.g. very poor U.S.
dissertations, Chinese high-school homework
Assignments)
3. Mendeley doesn’t extract all the right metadata, all
the time
4. Mendeley’s citation software can be troublesome for
new users
5. Nothing replaces ‘the auld pen & paper approach’ for
thinking
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

17. Any Questions?
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014

18. Links
 Harzings POP
 http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm
 Mendeley (How-To’s)
 http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/
 Dropbox
 https://www.dropbox.com/
 Tools I use for Education Purposes
 http://diginnmmu.com/opinion/tools-i-use-for-education-692
 Excel Pivot-Table (How-To’s)
 http://fiveminutelessons.com/learn-microsoft-excel/howcreate-pivot-table-excel
@BKeeganMMU
22/01/2014