Social Research Collaboration: Libraries Need Not Apply?

Reichelt began by describing the origins of Mendeley and how its original goal was to increase productivity and collaboration for researchers. Mendeley came about through the endeavors of two PhD students looking for a way to organize hundreds of PDFs stored on their desktops. What they created was...

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Hauptverfasser:	Jan Reichelt, Christopher Erdmann, Jose Luis Andrade
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Analytics Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied mathematics Applied sciences Arts Astronomical research Astronomy Behavioral sciences Business Collaboration Communication systems Communications technology Cultural anthropology Cultural institutions Digital communication systems Engineering Human behavior Industrial sectors Industry Institutional libraries Instrument panels Internet Knowledge industries Libraries Literary genres Literature Mathematics Nonfiction Physical sciences Publishing industry Research methods Research papers Research tools Social behavior Social interaction Social media Technology Transportation Vehicle components Vehicles
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Zusammenfassung:	Reichelt began by describing the origins of Mendeley and how its original goal was to increase productivity and collaboration for researchers. Mendeley came about through the endeavors of two PhD students looking for a way to organize hundreds of PDFs stored on their desktops. What they created was a product that extracts the essential metadata and full text from the PDF, lets researchers organize and annotate papers, share and discuss their research in groups, and aggregates everything in the cloud. As of today there are over 2 million users worldwide, with a database of over 300 million crowd-sourced articles and