Research Network Joan Wee, NTU Libraries

5 Feb 2014

Uses of network Circulate working papers for comments by the scholarly

community Search for collaborators Reputation building

Research Trending

Tenure Application

Readability

Academic Social Network Sites Profiles sites and repositories Network and find collaborators For Peer-reviewed

General Subject Specific

Academia.eduResearchGateMenedeleySAGE Research MethodsResearcherID

SSRNRePEcMCRNBioMedExperts.comEpernicus

Academia.edu ResearchGate Mendeley SSRN

Coverage All All All Specific subjects

Network size 7.1 million 3 million 1.6 million 239,102

Full-text 1.6 million 17.6 million 200 million 420,454

Analytics ProfilesDoc viewsDownloadCountriesFollowersFollowing

ProfilesDoc views, DownloadRequest for full-textCountriesFollowersFollowingQ&ARG index

Doc viewsReadership stats

Doc viewsDownload statsCitationRankingEigenfactor

Collaborators Yes Yes Yes Yes

Job Yes. Via job board. Can load CV.

Yes. List skills and Expertise.

Yes. Can load CV.

No

Share files Papers, data, Github

Papers, data, patents

Papers Papers

Comparison

Academia.edu ResearchGate Mendeley SSRN

Link to OA or external URL

Yes No. Except if you have load the full-text.

Yes. Yes

Track versions No No No Yes (private papers)

Login FB, GoogleSign up with email

FBSign-up with institution email only

FBSign-up with email

Sign-up with email

Access Free Free FreeFee for premium / institutional ac

FreeFee for access to e-journals

Comparison

Academia.eduGo to http://www.academia.eduLogin with your Google or Facebook account

Go to http://nanyang.academia.edu Search for your professor

ResearchGate Go to www.researchgate.net Login with your Facebook account

Mendeley Login using facebook

account More than a online

reference tool Follow or join groups Statistics on who is

reading your paper

SSRN (Prebble, Caldwell, & Keene, 2013)

As of Nov 2013, SSRN contains 514,008 abstracts and 420,454 full-text papers contributed by 239,102 authors

Papers upload to SSRN : tracks number of downloads, number of citations, edited paper receives a fresh date of submission

Subject areas : Accounting, Anthropology & Archaeology, Corporate Governance, Cognitive Science, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Economics, Hebew, Humanities: Classics, Humanities: Literature, Humanities: Music & Composition, Humanities: Philosophy, Humanities: Rhetoric & Communication, Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Political Science, Social Insurance, Sustainability

Author Page

Role of Librarians…Librarians might help colleagues prepare their careers for a more social-media-driven environment by explaining basic social networking best practices, which might include something as basic as a profile on a site like Academia.edu, or any other publicly available site that allows users to list their publications. For example, Google Scholar has a component that allows users to claim articles and build a profile, with the option of keeping the profile private, although that would seem to defeat the purpose of these new analytic tools, that seek to measure public engagement.

(Ovadia, 2013)

Activities Which Research Network(s) are your professors using?

(Look for 2-3 faculty from your school)

Where can you locate “experts” in your subject area?

Share your findings and experience as a blog posting

Reference Kelly, B. (2013, February 6) Why I’m evaluating ResearchGate. [Web log post]

Retrieved from http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/why-im-evaluating-researchgate/

Ovadia, S. (2013). When Social Media Meets Scholarly Publishing. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian,32(3), 194-198.

Prebble, J., Caldwell, J., & Keene, A. (2013). Using the Social Science Research Network to aid and to promote research. Victoria University Of Wellington Law Review, 44(3/4), 631-652.