Academic Training : Scopus and Mendeley

Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa Bahagian Perkhidmatan Akademik, Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) dengan kerjasama Institut Pengurusan Penyelidikan & Inovasi (IRMI), akan mengadakan training bersama publisher iaitu Elsevier pada tetapan berikut:
               
Academic Training : Scopus & Mendeley
Tarikh      : 14 April 2016 (Khamis)
Masa        : Sesi Pertama : 9.00 pagi - 1.00 tengahari
                   Sesi Kedua    : 2.00 petang - 5.00 petang
Tempat    : Pusat IT, Perpustakaan Pengurusan Perniagaan Tun Abdul Razak,                       UiTM Shah Alam
Peserta    : 40 orang bagi setiap sesi.Peserta adalah dikalangan pelajar                               pascasiswazah dan penyelidik
Penceramah : Yu Lang (Elsevier)  

 USING SCOPUS AS RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING TOOLS 

1.To focus on all the tasks that Scopus can assist the researcher throughout research and publishing. 

2.To train the researchers in finding sources indexed in Scopus, finding sources in their area/ suitable for them to publish, compare the performance of the shortlisted sources (SJR SNIP) and find the impact of their work/ view their performance (citation alert, h-index) 

Note

SCOPUS

https://app.box.com/s/h619ppnypuoc8g8nhe8w636ho65kevbd

MENDELEY

https://app.box.com/s/0iejmt2gy2owmtnitwsqatn6vzs41w06

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID): Connecting Researchers and their Research

http://orcid.org/

http://guides.lib.wayne.edu/c.php?g=258080&p=1723195

Benefits of Using ORCID
http://guides.lib.wayne.edu/c.php?g=258080&p=1723202

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Review of ResearchGate : Pros and cons and recommendations

About ResearchGate - Founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher  

ResearchGate is a networking site for researchers, particularly those engaged in broadly scientific research.

Let try whether it is worth using.  I did a little research and tested it myself https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad_Faizar_Jaafar

Pros
ResearchGate is free to join and currently has about 3 million users mainly in the sciences.  It offers the following benefits to researchers:

• Sharing publications
• Connecting with colleagues
• Seeking new collaborations
• Obtaining statistics and metrics on use of uploaded publications
• Asking questions of researchers around the world that have the same set of interests
• Job seeking or recruitment

ResearchGate incorporates many elements of familiar social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn:

• Creating profiles https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad_Faizar_Jaafar
• Liking and following researchers and their publications
• Endorsing the skills of others
• Ability to bookmark favourites
• Ability to comment or send feedback
• Ability to share news items and updates easily and quickly

ResearchGate links researchers around selected topics and specialisations – these can be chosen or edited at any time by members.  Members can track and follow the research publications of others in their field.

Members can upload copies of papers (either pre- or post-review) and the associated raw data.  All will be searchable.  Non-peer-reviewed material can be added only through manual file upload.

Researchers are encouraged not only to upload successful results but also those results from failed projects or experiments – the latter are stored in a separate but searchable area.

ResearchGate finds publications for members from a number of major databases, for example, PubMed, arXiv, IEEE, RePEC and CiteSeer enabling automatic creation of a publications list.  Lists can also be created or added to manually or importing from a reference management database such as EndNote.  


ResearchGate offers the ability to search and filter on a variety of topics: author, institution, journal, publication, and so on.
Members can request a copy of a paper from the author if it is not freely available.

Full text publications uploaded to ResearchGate are indexed by Google.
ResearchGate contains useful information about journals, such as impact factors, metrics and some details of open access policy – in this respect it is useful for bringing information together into one place.

Cons
ResearchGate claims to have 3 million users but it is not clear how many of these are active accounts that are maintained and updated regularly.

A high percentage of ResearchGate members are postgraduate and other students (may be a drawback for established researchers).

Some members have complained about unwanted email spamming.  To avoid receiving several emails a day, unwanted updates or followers, be sure to manage your Notifications and Privacy settings both of which can be accessed through Account Settings.

Many of the publications that are available through ResearchGate are actually uploaded illegally in terms of publisher open access policy.

Putting a copy of your paper on ResearchGate will not mean that you are compliant with funder policy.  On the contrary, you may be in breach of publisher policy. 


Recommendations
The more effort you put into maintaining and regularly updating your profile, the more you will get out of ResearchGate.


The extent to which ResearchGate will be useful to individual researchers depends on the researcher’s aims.  If the aim is to promote work then ResearchGate alone will probably not suffice.  Consider using ResearchGate in conjunction with other sites such as Academia.edu, Mendeley, Google Scholar or figshare.  Activity and membership varies from one site to another and from one discipline to another, so researchers will need to investigate for themselves in order to evaluate potential value.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad_Faizar_Jaafar

source  http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/openresearchexeter/2013/11/06/74/

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New code of practice for Academic and Research Libraries

http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/index.shtml
View/download the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use 

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently released its own Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.  Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the code:

enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself.

The Code was developed after a series of in-depth interviews with 65 librarians at academic and research institutions. It identifies the relevance of fair use in eight recurrent situations:

• Supporting teaching and learning with access to library materials via digital technologies
• Using selections from collection materials to publicize a library’s activities, or to create physical and virtual exhibitions
• Digitizing to preserve at-risk items
• Creating digital collections of archival and special collections materials
• Reproducing material for use by disabled students, faculty, staff, and other appropriate users
• Maintaining the integrity of works deposited in institutional repositories
• Creating databases to facilitate non-consumptive research uses (including search)
• Collecting material posted on the web and making it available

Most of these issues have relevance for the school library community as well.

This new code joins several others as part of a project of the School of Communication at American University Center for Social Media in Washington, DC, successfully serving to clarify how professionals might apply fair use to improve their practice using the tools of our time.

Existing codes include:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare
• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies Publishing
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
• Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials

Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication at American University and Director of the Center for Social Media notes

Librarians can now join other communities of practice that have designed such codes. They have been able to reduce market friction and meet mission with the confidence that they are acting within the best practices of their peers.

Download the code and follow #librarianscode on Twitter for further information.

And see my older posts relating to the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: The Webinar
• Fair Use Code of Practice coming very soon!
• New Fair Use Code of Practice: A Call to Action

 

via : http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/index.shtml

FAQ for Librarianshttp://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/faq-libs.shtml

FAQ for Students
 http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/faq-students.shtml 

Frequently Asked Questions

Download a PDF of this FAQ

• What is copyright? How is it different from using proper attribution and avoiding plagiarism?
• What is fair use?
• What about creative commons materials? Licensed materials (as opposed to books the library owns)? Does fair use always apply the same way to everything?
• Why would a student need fair use? What kinds of things might I do that involve my fair use rights?
• There are lots of guidelines on how much we can use under fair use. The 1976 Classroom Guidelines, for example, look very official. I can't exceed those rules, can I? How do I navigate the sea of guidelines and "rules of thumb" for fair use that I find online?
• How do I know whether my use of copyrighted material in my own scholarship and class projects is fair?
• How can I use material that I get from e-reserves or CMS (Blackboard, Moodle, etc.) sites? Is it free or “public domain” now that my professor has posted it for me there?

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The research lab in your pocket - Times Higher Education

The research lab in your pocket

28 July 2011

By Sarah Cunnane

Apps created by and for the academy could turn smartphones into essential academic tools for everything from teaching and citations to social-science fieldwork. Sarah Cunnane reports

Credit: Bruno Mallart/Getty

When George MacKerron set out to investigate how people's happiness is affected by their environment, he hit upon the idea of using mobile phones. What if an application could be developed to ask study participants - at regular intervals - how they were feeling, where they were and who they were with? 

The research project Mappiness does just that via an app that beeps phone owners once or more a day to enquire about their state of mind while simultaneously taking a noise measurement and tracking the participant's location with global positioning system technology. Richard Layard, the British economist and Labour peer known for his research on well-being, has described the project as "a revolutionary research idea", but for MacKerron, the concept was obvious. 

"The technology was there: it seemed a no-brainer," says the PhD researcher ....

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