Let’s collaborate!

ISciCo – Module 3

ISCICO Course, 14-18 Jan 2013, Universitat de GironaMiquel Duran, UdG

@miquelduranmiquel.duran@udg.eduhttp://miquelduran.net

License: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA

So far…

• Let’s communicate!• Let’s share

• And now…– Let’s collaborate• Within out team or group• With worlwide scholars

• Because we are researchers

PPT worth taking a look• See in http://slideshare.com/quelgir

Scientists communicate: an example

• Marcel Swart, TEDxUdG: “I’m a chemist”

Team Collaboration

• Workgroup, continued collaboration– Productivity tools– E-mail, twitter, facebook, etc.– Cloud-based

• Zyncro• Teambox• Do.com• Google Drive (docs, etc.)

• Scholarly level collaboration– Researchgate, mendeley, academia.edu

To collaborate out there, first you must introduce yourself: CV

• LinkedIn• VisualCv• Nice website templates– E.g. flavors.me– Example (see marcel swart’s blog)– Science is key, but design also matters

• Scientific social networks• Attend conferences, meetings, and socialize

And second… how do we know about colleagues?

• Indeed: LinkedIn• Further: Commercial databases/tertiary

sources– Web of Knowledge– Scopus– (how do we access those services? Paywall!)

• Google’s approach: Google Scholar

Google Scholar

• Lots of data! (of course)• Cites• Searchable (indeed!)• Alerts• Crossed references

But what’s your name?

• Identifying yourself: names in papers• Solving disambiguation:– Researcher ID (Web of Knowledge)• http://researcherid.com

– ORCID (Open Access)• http://orcid.org

– Scopus Author Identifier• http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-

detail/tools/authoridentifier

Pushing forward Open Science

• SpotOn London 2012– http://www.nature.com/spoton

• UKWebFocus blog– http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com

Alternative to 20st century publishing?

• Open source software, open source beer… open publishing!

• Open access (mandatory for EU in 2014)• Open data (… big data)• Just 3 examples from SpotOn Science HackDay– Figshare.com – Researchfish.com– http://www.frontiersin.org (open publishing)

Panton Principles: Principles for Open Data in Science.

• http://pantonprinciples.org/• Science is based on building on, reusing and

openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge.

• For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open.

Example of Open Science

• http://science.okfn.org• Open data• Open access• Open research

• Open Science Foundation

Open Science example: Wikipathways

• http://wikipathways.org

Example collaborative team reserach: KeepAndShare

http://keepandshare.com

Creative Commons License

• Creative Commons– Attributes– ND– NC– SA– BY

• http://creativecommons.org (see video inside)

Nonspecific Social Networks for scientists: Twitter and LinkedIn

• You may follow lists in @udglive – like udg-gent and udg-nogent

• You may belong to Unviersity of Girona company and group in LinkedIn

• Indeed you may like UdG’s facebook pages

Academic social networks

• Indeed on may use twitter, facebook, google+, etc.

• But one might wish to focus on more knowledge-intensive relationships

• Let’s focus on 3 academic social networks:– Academia.edu– Researchgate– Mendeley

Academia.edu

• Wikipedia: Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers

• One defines areas of interest, and then searches for…– People– Questions– Documents– Journals

ResearchGate.com

• Wikipedia: a mash-up of “Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn” that includes “profile pages, comments, groups, job listings, and ‘like’ and ‘follow’ buttons”[2] for the purposes of crowdsourcing research.

• Publications, topics, questions, authors, … everything can be followed!

• Actual social network

Mendeley.Com

• Another social network• Allows PDF storage• It is a reference manager• Annotation, collaboration, paper coworking• People• Groups• Etc-

Curating information

• RSS sources• Google Reader• Feedly• Smartphone/tablet readers

– Flipboard– Zite– Pulse– Etc

• (show them in actual work)• Scoop.it, blogs, pinterest, twitter, etc.• Smartphone-related productivity tools

PhD Comics

• Comic strip• http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php