2. So far…
• Let’s communicate!
• Let’s share
• And now…
– Let’s collaborate
• Within out team or group
• With worlwide scholars
• Because we are researchers
5. Team Collaboration
• Workgroup, continued collaboration
– Productivity tools
– E-mail, twitter, facebook, etc.
– Cloud-based
• Zyncro
• Teambox
• Do.com
• Google Drive (docs, etc.)
• Scholarly level collaboration
– Researchgate, mendeley, academia.edu
6. To collaborate out there, first you must
introduce yourself: CV
• LinkedIn
• VisualCv
• Nice website templates
– E.g. flavors.me
– Example (see marcel swart’s blog)
– Science is key, but design also matters
• Scientific social networks
• Attend conferences, meetings, and socialize
7. And second… how do we know about
colleagues?
• Indeed: LinkedIn
• Further: Commercial databases/tertiary
sources
– Web of Knowledge
– Scopus
– (how do we access those services? Paywall!)
• Google’s approach: Google Scholar
8. Google Scholar
• Lots of data! (of course)
• Cites
• Searchable (indeed!)
• Alerts
• Crossed references
9. But what’s your name?
• Identifying yourself: names in papers
• Solving disambiguation:
– Researcher ID (Web of Knowledge)
• http://researcherid.com
– ORCID (Open Access)
• http://orcid.org
– Scopus Author Identifier
• http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-
detail/tools/authoridentifier
10. Pushing forward Open Science
• SpotOn London 2012
– http://www.nature.com/spoton
• UKWebFocus blog
– http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com
11. Alternative to 20st century publishing?
• Open source software, open source beer…
open publishing!
• Open access (mandatory for EU in 2014)
• Open data (… big data)
• Just 3 examples from SpotOn Science HackDay
– Figshare.com
– Researchfish.com
– http://www.frontiersin.org (open publishing)
12. Panton Principles: Principles for Open
Data in Science.
• http://pantonprinciples.org/
• Science is based on building on, reusing and
openly criticising the published body of
scientific knowledge.
• For science to effectively function, and for
society to reap the full benefits from scientific
endeavours, it is crucial that science data be
made open.
13. Example of Open Science
• http://science.okfn.org
• Open data
• Open access
• Open research
• Open Science Foundation
16. Creative Commons License
• Creative Commons
– Attributes
– ND
– NC
– SA
– BY
• http://creativecommons.org (see video inside)
17. Nonspecific Social Networks for
scientists: Twitter and LinkedIn
• You may follow lists in @udglive – like udg-
gent and udg-nogent
• You may belong to Unviersity of Girona
company and group in LinkedIn
• Indeed you may like UdG’s facebook pages
18. Academic social networks
• Indeed on may use twitter, facebook, google+,
etc.
• But one might wish to focus on more
knowledge-intensive relationships
• Let’s focus on 3 academic social networks:
– Academia.edu
– Researchgate
– Mendeley
19. Academia.edu
• Wikipedia: Academia.edu is a platform for
academics to share research papers
• One defines areas of interest, and then
searches for…
– People
– Questions
– Documents
– Journals
20. ResearchGate.com
• Wikipedia: a mash-up of “Facebook, Twitter
and LinkedIn” that includes “profile pages,
comments, groups, job listings, and ‘like’ and
‘follow’ buttons”*2+ for the purposes of
crowdsourcing research.
• Publications, topics, questions, authors, …
everything can be followed!
• Actual social network
21. Mendeley.Com
• Another social network
• Allows PDF storage
• It is a reference manager
• Annotation, collaboration, paper coworking
• People
• Groups
• Etc-
22. Curating information
• RSS sources
• Google Reader
• Feedly
• Smartphone/tablet readers
– Flipboard
– Zite
– Pulse
– Etc
• (show them in actual work)
• Scoop.it, blogs, pinterest, twitter, etc.
• Smartphone-related productivity tools
