Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

18 Pages Posted: 11 May 2013

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Nurhazman Abdul Aziz

UNITAR International University; Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Keita Bando

MyOpenArchive

Wan Ahmad Hanis Wan Yahya

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Date Written: April 29, 2013

Abstract

With the advent of internet technologies in today’s information science landscape, a number of researchers and scholars are using new media into their professional communication and scholarly work. This action shifted the patterns in using beyond than just a reference management tool and place a challenge in library science’s service on the reflection of new demographic pool’s patrons behavior and usage in using the library’s model. Librarians have to keep up on their toes, with these attributes in acquiring knowledge, tools, resources and operations to serve a unique information service model to their patrons, especially in academic and research libraries. Understanding the needs of the librarians, here at Swets, the partnership with Mendeley aims to set a milestone ahead to aid and provide a strategic alignment model for their on-progress challenging model. Together, in this paper, the illustration will focus on the discussion topic to invest and align strategically, a tool that is designed to be part of the ecological cycle in current scholarly communication lifestyle. Mendeley is not only build for a basic reference management tools to aid academics and researchers (or even undergraduate) in their daily academic writing. But, that will be beyond than just a scholar’s imagination. This includes topics as access, visible, preserve, collaborate, share, knowledge transfer, mobile and openness. This is because Mendeley rides on the open science concept, indirectly immerse the usage of the product in part of a scholar’s life in a university. This will seeds a good, positive seeding investment for librarians and research managers to look beyond the basic service model, along with the other productive competitive services and platforms, especially for Malaysia’s and South East Asia’s library and information science industry to leverage for the future in open science development.

Keywords: Reference Management Tools, Library Science, Scholarly Communication, New Media, Open Science, Social Collaboration Platform, Malaysia, Librarianship, Mendeley, Library, Academic, New Media

Suggested Citation

Abdul Aziz, Nurhazman and Bando, Keita and Wan Yahya, Wan Ahmad Hanis, Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries (April 29, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2263120 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2263120

Nurhazman Abdul Aziz (Contact Author)

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Keita Bando

MyOpenArchive ( email )

Wan Ahmad Hanis Wan Yahya

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) ( email )

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