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Mendeley and Data Management. William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com @mrgunn. Mendeley’s role. Providing attention and exposure Facilitating re-use Enabling reproducibility. Based in London, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from.
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Mendeley and Data Management William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com @mrgunn
Mendeley’s role • Providing attention and exposure • Facilitating re-use • Enabling reproducibility
Based in London, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...
Mendeley extracts research data… ...and aggregates it in the cloud Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
Instrumenting the Research Workflow Import Search Write Read Annotate Organize
How can we promote discovery and reuse of data? • There’s little systematic sharing of data • Supplemental data doesn’t get cited • Seeber, F. (2008) Nature 451:887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/451887d
“authors who make data from their articles available are cited twice as frequently as articles with no data… but otherwise equal qualifications” Gleditsch, N.P. & Strand, H. Posting your data: will you be scooped or will you be famous? International Studies Perspectives 4, 89-97 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1528-3577.04105
300 million documents uploaded 2.0 million users Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University University of Michigan University College London University of California at Berkeley Columbia University
New data on research impact • Get better data on what's working • Get it faster • Give researchers greater academic freedom
Building a reproducibility dataset • Mendeley and Science Exchange have started the Reproducibility Initiative • working with Figshare & PLOS to host data & replication reports • building open datasets backing high-impact work • extending the “executable paper” concept to biomedical research