NEW TECHNOLOGIES:Empowering the Research Community for Better Outcomes & Adding Value

LibraryConnect Seminar Beirut - April 17, 2012

Michael Habib, MSLSProduct Manager, SciVerse Scopus

OUTPUT IS INCREASING

Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

SO IS QUALITY

AND COMPETITION

Source: SciVal Analytics w/ Scopus Data http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

AND COLLABORATION

View search term analysis on Scopus sent on April 13, 2012

KEY FORCES SHAPING RESEARCH

Trend exacerbated by economic

downturn

Technology Global Competition

Government Policies

Workflow Inefficiencies

LEANRESEARCH

In Q4 2010, smartphones overtook PC shipments

Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d96e3bd8-33ca-11e0-b1ed-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1roqGU2h7

GLOBAL

Active mobile broadband subscriptions Per 100 people

2011 1,186,000,000 17%

2010 870,000,000 12.6%

ARAB STATES

Active mobile broadband subscriptions Per 100 people

2011 48,000,000 13.3%

2010 36,000,000 10.2%

Source:  International Telecommunication Union  (November 2011) via http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#phone-shipments

Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Summary.aspx

1. Younger (<45)

2. Educated (University)

3. Financially well-off

10 BILLION

15 BILLION

25 BILLION

10 BILLION – JANUARY 201115 BILLION – JULY 201125 BILLION – MARCH 2012

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-05/apple-app-downloads/53372352/1

A&G RESEARCHERSMobile Device Usage Trends

Laptop

Smartphone

iPad/Tablet

E-reader

2010 (N=97)

n/a

31% 77%

4% 11%

3% 10%

82%

2011 (N=67)

DEVICE OWNERSHIPDO THEY USE APPS?(N=66)

37%

63%

39%

61%

Personally Professionally

Communication

TOP WORK RELATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED ON THE MOBILE (N=67)

75%

61%

46%

43%

22%

21%

Collaboration

Reading an article

Searching an article

Recording experimental findings

Annotate/comment on data sets

Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace

LIBRARIANS Mobile Device Usage Trends

Laptop

Smartphone

iPad/Tablet

E-reader

2010 (N=87)

n/a

40% 63%

7% 21%

18% 22%

76%

2011 (N=63)

DEVICE OWNERSHIPDO THEY USE APPS?(N=60)

YES40%

60%

58%

42%

Personally Professionally

Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace

Communication

ACTIVITIES OFTEN/SOMETIMES CONDUCTED ON THE MOBILE (N=62)

76%

52%

50%

39%

15%

13%

Reading an article

Collaboration

Searching an article

Preparing presentations

Writing a publication

Scopus & ScienceDirect free mobile apps for subscribers

SciVerse ScienceDirect (iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android)

•Search for articles by Keyword, Author or Journal

•View Full Text Articles

•Save articles for offline viewing

•Create search alerts

•Share article links through email and Twitter

SciVerse Scopus Alerts (iPhone, BlackBerry and Android)

•30 day trial before logging-in or subscribing

•Search for and view Scopus abstracts and references

•Set and receive search and citation alerts

•Share abstract links through email and Twitter

•Save an abstract for easy retrieval later

Alerts and settings on your desktop version will not be saved to your mobileAllows institutional subscribers to access apps using their institutional login

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Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Summary.aspx

SCIVERSE?

SCIVERSE

ScienceDirect– Elsevier’s online full text portal with 11 million full text

articles from 2000+ journals as well as thousands of books

Scopus– World’s largest abstract and citation database with 40

million abstracts, millions of author and affiliation profiles and reference and citation data.

Hub– Comprehensive search covering ScienceDirect, Scopus and

the Scirus scientific web index covering 400 million records from patents databases, arXiv, lab pages, news and more.

SCIVERSE APPLICATIONS

open, interoperable, domain specific

APPLICATIONS

VISUALIZATION

ANALYSIS TOOLS

LINKING DATA

SMARTER SEARCH

WORKFLOW TOOLS

• Document Management– eReader Formats– Send To Kindle– Send to DropBox– AmmoRack

• Data Extraction/Manipulation– Table Downloader– Large Image Viewer– Image Data Extractor

• Awareness– MostDownloaded– Journal Minder (in development)

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

• Literature and data want to be together– Mass of data available to researchers outside

the formal literature is huge and growing– This is inefficient - task switching between

multiple interfaces, hard to find resources...– Smart apps can facilitate interoperability,

bring relevant data into context with papers

(Researchers, N = 3824 ; study by Publishing Research Consortium, 2010)

High importance but noteasily accessible

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

• Customers expect the tools they use to work together– Google Gmail on your Apple iPhone synced to

your Dell laptop running Microsoft Windows– SciVerse is one tool among many our users are

using and our customers are subscribing to– APIs and an open platform brings SciVerse to

where users are and lets other products add value to SciVerse

ADDED VALUE

“bX is already available on the eLibrary, and is proving very useful in presenting users with highly relevant material beyond what they find through their own searches. Adding bX to SciVerse will bring added value to those systems too.“Gill McDonald – Librarian, Cardiff University

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

• Domain specificity is the future of research tools– The current one-size-fits-all model of

publishing is print-centric and needlessly constricting

– Publishers/database providers cannot build tools for every single scientific discipline

– An open platform is the obvious solution – let the research community build the tools they need

“THIS IS A MEDIEVAL WAY OF COMMUNICATING

INFORMATION. WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE THIS. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE

WE CAN DO.”

SIMPLE THINGS

CONNECTING DATA IN CONTEXT

CONNECTING DATA IN CONTEXT

BEYOND APPS – SCOPUS FOR INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

www.developers.elsevier.com/devcms/content-policies#toc_Institutional_repositories,_

Top 5 Institutional Apps for ScienceDirect

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eReader Formats: Download articles from ScienceDirect to any eReader, anytime

iSpeech Audio Reader: Listen to an article read aloud on ScienceDirect

Table Download: Download HTML data tables from articles in .csv files

Altmetric: Measure the attention articles get on social media sites

Co-Author Network: Visualize the network of your top Co-Authors

Top 5 Institutional Apps for Scopus

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Author Wordle: Create a word cloud from an author's most recent papers in Scopus

EMTREE: See suggested synonyms as you search, powered by EMTREE

Co-Author Explorer: See an intuitive graphical representation of an author's papers and collaborators

Lipids Structures : Identify lipid names or synonyms in Scopus records

F1000: See which Scopus articles experts at F1000 have identified as important

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Navigation

Traditional

& PDF-like

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Task-based

Add value

& Context

Since each pane can be scrolled independently, it is possible to have both the text and an image in view at once

Background:We noticed that very often, when the image and related text do not fit the same page, scientists have two PDFs open on their screen (or on two different screens) at the same time. These allow scientists to simultaneously view the image and read the explanatory text

How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher problems into solutions

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Crosshairs are most commonly represented as intersecting lines in the shape of a cross ("+"). Using the “crosshairs” functionality, the reader can get access to the

underlying data at any location on the graph

Background:When discussing with electrochemists potential options for interactive charts, we were told that very often scientists print the article and then use the ruler to draw horizontal and vertical lines on the printed figure to manually measure, which values correspond to a specific point of interest on the graph. Depending on the resolution and quality of the image, those measurements are not always very accurate

How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher problems into solutions (2/3)

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Psychology flowcharts (displayed in the right sidebar) provide a graphical overview of an experimental procedure. It is also possible to select and compare several

flowcharts by opening them in a new window

Background:While observing cognitive psychologists reading scientific articles, we noticed that a few people were drawing a-kind-of scheme / flowchart when they were reading the article section explaining the experimental set-up and methods. As we were explained later, those flowcharts often help scientists to gain a better understanding of the experiment, especially if the procedure was rather complex

How ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign turns researcher problems into solutions (3/3)

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Pulling data in from Protein Data Bank

Author-tagged Data from PDB 3D Visualisation

Select Zoom Rotate

All inside article

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Structure Viewer

Author-created Supplementary

data files Visualisation Added value

functionality: InChI key Google Reaxys

All iinside article

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Map Viewer

Author-created Supplementary

data (KML) files Visualisation Full Google Maps

functionality All inside article

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Recap on how technology is leading to better outcomes

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Mobile Apps

SciVerse Applications

ScienceDirect Article Page Redesign

2. 2. ArticleArticle

1. 1. OutlineOutline

3. 3. Extra’Extra’

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THE END

• Michael Habib• Product Manager, SciVerse Scopus• habib@elsevier.com• Twitter: @habib

Appendix

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Do Researchers Use eBooks? (2009)

9%

Source: Global survey responses from 500 researchers & librarians,Elsevier & S.M.S. Research, 2009

63%

19%

51% 53% 51% 47%

8%

28%

11%

30%

4%

34%

10%

21%

“I neither have nor

want online books”

“I want to use online

books but do not have

access”

“I have access, and

I use online books”

Breadth of coverage Lebanon

Number of documents in Scopuswith Lebanese country affiliation in 2007 – 2011

3 active Lebanese titles in Scopus of which 2 Scopus-unique

Feedback shows that users are very positive

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“The new article format gives more options. I like it!”

It “helps to minimize time required to read an article”.

”Although I still prefer to read the article in a PDF format, I will definitely check the online version because of the extra features. Well done, Elsevier!”

“This will reduce my need to print articles.”

“Both authors and readers will benefit from this new article display.”

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“For blind people this (iSpeech Audio Reader App) is making them enter a whole new world.”

Librarian, Middle East

OUTPUT IS INCREASING

Source: SciVal Analytics - http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

SO IS QUALITY

Source: SciVal Analytics - http://www.info.scival.com/analytics-unit

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Title Date Activity Type CommunityNumber of Responses

Your mobile pulse June 2010 Survey All communities 238

Mobile Applications: Usage & Awareness June 2011 Survey Researchers

and Librarians 177

Mobile Applications: ScienceDirect & Scopus June 2011 Survey Researchers

and Librarians 42

The Future of mobile apps July 2011 Discussion Researchers and Librarians 107

Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011

Source: Mobile and Mobile Apps in the scientific workplace by segment - July 2011 -- Communispace