Author Archives: Ang Samantha

About Ang Samantha

A member of the Digital Scholarship team who enjoys both sedentary activities and being in the outdoors.

Article-Level Metrics – A SPARC Primer

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Curious about altmetrics and want to learn more about it? SPARC recently released a 14 page document, Article-Level Metrics — A SPARC Primer.

Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) is an emerging hot topic in scholarly publishing and this primer aims to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process.

Table of contents :
1. Executive summary
2. Article-level metrics defined
3. Article-level metricxs and open access
4. article-level metrics capture
5. ARticle-level metrics in action (A mention of info providers that have incorporated ALMs in their user experiences, eg. PLOS, Scopus, Nature …)
6. Article-level metrics and the tenure and promotion process (include some recommendations for institutions interested in exploring ALMs)
7. Limitations of article-level metrics
8. Potential of article-level metrics
9. Appendix : Altmetrics tools

Source : www.sparc.arl.org

Thomson Reuters Launches Free Online Version of EndNote

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As reported in Asian Wall Street Journal (dated Apr 23 2013) the free version, known as EndNote Basic, comes with :

  • Storage up to 50,000 references
  • 20+ bibliographic styles; eg ABNT, ACS, APA 6th, Chicago 16th, CSE, IEEE, JAMA, MLA, Numbered, Turabain, Vancouver
  • 2GB of files storage
  • Online search of the 5 databases: British Library, CrossRef, Library of Congress, Lista (EBSCO), Pubmed)
  • Web reference capture

Not familiar with the use of EndNote? Have a look at the video entitled Basics of EndNote Basic (36 mins) hosted on youtube.

For Mendeley users who wish to change platform, steps on how to migrate Mendeley files to EndNote are as follows :

  • In the Mendeley Desktop program click on File and choose Export.
  • In the “Save As” field choose a name and a location for the file to be exported.
  • Click on the arrow beside the “Format” field and choose either “RIS – Research Information Systems (*.ris)” or “EndNote XML – EndNote v8, X1 or X2 (*.xml).”

The resulting file can be imported into an EndNote library using the relevant import option.

Source : EndNote Knowledgebase, “EndNote: Transferring records from Mendeley Desktop”

Elsevier buys Mendeley

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The news that Reed Elsevier bought Mendeley, a free reference manager and PDF organiser, broke out on Monday Apr 8, 2013.

Since then, Peter Suber has deleted his Mendeley account and among the many blog posts on this subject, one on The Guardian, mentioned that the “news prompted strong reactions from the academic community”.

Will the use of Mendeley continue to be free? What changes can users expect? for more information, check out Mendeley’s blog.

Staff and students at NTU have access to EndNote, a bibliographic management software. EndNote has tools for searching, organizing and sharing work, creating bibliographies, and writing papers.
To download thia software, click here.

Developing researcher skills in research data management : a DataPool project report

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Authors of this project have deposited a copy of the report in ePrints Soton, University of Southampton institutional repository, on Apr 22, 2013.

Description / Abstract

This report will look at the multi-level approach to developing researcher skills in research data management in the University of Southampton, developed as part of the training strand of the JISC DataPool project, and embedded into the University engagement with research data management. It will look at how
• the multi-level approach to research data management training provides opportunities for cross- and multi-disciplinary sharing events as well as bespoke subject specific sessions;
• co-delivery with active researchers and/or other professional support services benefits the presentation and relevance of the material to the researchers;
• focussing the event and matching content to the expected audience is key;
• using the Institutional Data Management Blueprint dual approach of bottom-up (researchers needs)/top-down (institutional policies and infrastructure) worked