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Sharing a bibliographic database in research teams on web interface A study of collaborative reference management tools Colette Cadiou, Sylvie Sarah-Blin colette.cadiou@cemagref.fr , docmtd@teledetection.fr. EURASLIC , OMER May 2011, Lyon, France. Plan . Context
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Sharing a bibliographic database in research teams on web interface A study of collaborative reference management tools Colette Cadiou, Sylvie Sarah-Blin colette.cadiou@cemagref.fr, docmtd@teledetection.fr EURASLIC , OMER May 2011, Lyon, France
Plan Context Reference management practices and needs Study of different tools Conclusion and further opportunities
Context of our studyResearch and scientific information in Cemagref • Cemagref : the French governmental environmental science and technology institute, 800 scientists, doctorate and post-doctorate students in 9 centres • Researchers work • in a team or laboratory, • in research national or international project teams • in specialized fields from different disciplines : biology, hydrology, forestry, economics and management, electronics, modelling…
Context of our studyA professional network for scientific information • A network of 25 librariansor information specialists to answer scientific information needs to researchers : • information watching and searching, • bibliometrics, • electronic and paper resources management, • web communication • OAI publications • Support to prospective or strategy • training and support : information retrieval, reference software management
How researchers manage their documents with software PDF documents on internal server URL Links or web page capture Word processor integrationStyles for citations/journals Scientific publication Word, OpenOffice, LateX Researcher’s reference database Results of database searching (Scopus, WOS, IEEE XPlore, Google Scholar…) Other tool
How researchers would like to share their bibliography Web access common library • User demand • Common keywords or fields, name of contributor, comments add, alerts… • Storage in secure computing environment • Free or open source system PDF documents on server RIS or BibteX +files import/export Word processor integrationStyles for citations/journals Scientific publication Word, OpenOffice, LateX Researchers’ biblio databases with their PDF, web captures…
Sharing bibliography : current or past practices in Cemagref Sharing EndNote files in one common EndNote Database secure storage, customization, import quality no web access, limited to EndNote users, writing rights limited, no group management, success depends on one coordinator Wikindx (free open source,http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/) secure storage oninternal server no success with researchers (coordination, ergonomy), no longer developed
Methodology of our study Evolution of the context(Literature, blogs forums…) Elaboration of a list of criteria List of software to test Tests of different tools Conclusion and prospects
Other tools tested or examined • Reference management software Pybliographer, Qiqqa, Refbase, I’Librarian, Aigaion, Jumper: don’t match with our criteria, pbs in tests • Library Open source software (PMB, Koha): no imports, not adapted • CMS ( Content management systems ) : bibliography module • ex Drupal : imports/exports RIS and BibteX ok, but requires further developments for ergonomy
Conclusion • 2 products offer the best possibilities but don’t achieve the ideal solution • Mendeley : Very ergonomic and easy tool for personal and web use ( desktop and/or web), sharing documents with max 10 persons, annotating and searching documents, social network facilities , Zotero but economic problem if more than 10 persons, more than 500 Mo etc • CiteULike : Solid application, no storage limit but interface could be improved /Mendeley, external server, a few advertisements , customization limited
Further opportunities «Cloud computing » = centrally-hosted website tools seem inevitable : who will pay if required, how long will it be free ? What Else ? new products are coming with new opportunities : to be tested Colwiz, http://www.colwiz.com ( end of 2010) : not limited to papers : « research management, collaboration and productivity in one place for free ») Evolution of current tools : Zotero, better synchronization , subcollection to export ? Will collaborative tools ( Alfresco, Nuxeo ) include reference management ? Social scientific networks ( researchgate ?) How to export several PDF documents and metadata Adaptation , impact on our activities (import/export quality, training and support, database size, new literature searching tools? Cooperation between librarians/computing engineers to test and share our test results and experience : professional associations or networks : how to organize it ?
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