...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Mendeley is not just a reference manager! Install Mendeley Desktop Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
Instrumenting the research workflow • 2.6 Million users • 470 M documents • 4-700K uploads per day • 90% coverage of Pubmed • Accessible alternative to citations
What would people build if they could get the data? • Impact Story – get credit for all your work • PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers • Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO) • Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)
New forms of discovery • Mendeley Suggest – personalized recommendations based on reading history • related articles – relatedness based on document similarity • third-party platforms – PubChase, ScienceScape, myScienceWork, Docphin
How authors use Pubmed Commons • Went public on Dec 19. • ~700 comments • 1 in 5 are from authors • Commenters must have a paper in Pubmed to comment, but they’re publicly viewable • Comments can be cited by PMID http://pubmedcommonsblog.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2013/12/13/expanding-and-updating-the-record-authors-using-pubmed- commons/
• 50% of comments – add study data – link to full free text – give updates related specifically to that publication – link to newer publications • 10% used it to add errata or notify readers that the conclusions no longer hold • only 2 used it to talk about how great their own paper is How authors use Pubmed Commons
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 • http://cos.io/cancerbiology