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Agenda – Christian Defeo

Introduction

Work smart

• Create a document library

• Download a citation from a library

• Download a document from a library

• Mark up documents

• Record lab/experiment results

Work together

• Find collaborators

• Create a group

• Share documents

Stay up-to-date

• Set up an article alert

• Follow a researcher

• Get news feeds and updates

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Introduction — Who am I?

• Product marketing manager at Elsevier since June 2016

• Also have an academic pedigree:

- First PhD in Creative Writing, University of Southampton 2010

- Working on 2nd PhD, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at

Wolfson School, Loughborough University since 2015

• Seen vast improvements in tools over time that are available to early

career researchers

• And they need them!

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Introduction cont’d

• According to IBM: “Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data

— so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created

in the last two years alone.”

• Much of that data isn’t Instagram photos; it’s genuine research data

• We need the latest tools to:

- Organize it all

- Stay up to date

- Connect with others

- …and to maintain the novelty of research

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Tip #1 – Create a document library

Use a reference tool (like Mendeley) to maintain a document library

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Tip #2 – Add citations

Use the reference manager to add citations; Mendeley, for example,

has a plugin that works with most word processors

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Tip #3 – Download documents

Use your reference manager to download documents

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Tip #4 – Highlight documents

Use the advanced features of reference managers to mark up your

documents, e.g., highlights!

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Tip #5 – Use an electronic lab notebook

Particularly for lab-based researchers, use an electronic lab

notebook!

• Surprising amount of labs still use paper notebooks; this

can lead to untidiness in maintaining research data

• Hivebench is geared toward biologists

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Tip #5 – Use an electronic lab notebook, cont’d

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Tip #6 – Join a research ecosystem

• Research has generally been a “social” activity;

whether with a team in a lab or across a vast

network of scientists spanning the globe

• Benjamin Franklin provides a good example of

such a network in the 18th century

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Tip #6 – Join a research ecosystem, cont’d

• Fortunately, we have much better tools than the Colonial Postal

System at our disposal!

• Your social network may be close to hand; research tools are turning

into research ecosystems — look at Mendeley on the web

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Tip #7 – Reach out and make a space of your own

It’s increasingly possible to use online tools to create a community of

practice.

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Tip #8 – Sharing is caring!

It’s possible to share references with others adding to the flow of

quality information for your network.

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Tip #9 – Set up alerts, offload some of the work

With so much new

information

available on a

daily basis, it can

be difficult to keep

track

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Tip #10 – Follow the leaders

Following the right researchers is also a powerful strategy

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Tip #11 – Look at your news feed

Many tools are

available to keep

up to date on the

news in a given

field. Make time

to look at your

news feed – the

results may

surprise you.

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Tip #12 – There is no one perfect tool

• Ultimately it comes down to:

- Features

- Performance

- Familiarity

• Elsevier is committed to making the research process easier in spite

of the avalanche of information out there.

• We want your feedback! We’re always looking to improve.

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About Me — Eleanora Presani

PhD in

Astroparticle

Physics

Managing

Editor

(Elsevier

Physics)

Publisher

particle and

nuclear

physics

(Elsevier)

Product

Manager

Scopus

New York

Trieste

(Italy)

Amsterdam

(The

Netherland

s)

Geneva

(Switzerland)

e.presani@elsevier.com

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Tip #13 – Register and log in to Scopus

Registering and logging in provides personalization options that allow

you to save, track and share your work.

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Tip #14 – Save your search

Save your

search query

for later use or

to share it with

other people

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Tip #14 – Save your search, cont’d

Save up to 200 search queries in a personal saved search list.

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Tip #15 – Set an alert for your search

Researchers will be notified when new results are found for queries.

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Tip #16 – Use search history to rerun searches

Scopus

document search

history is

remembered for

each session.

Look up searches

that were done

previously and

save them if

needed.

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Tip #17 – Edit your search

To edit and run queries again (particularly long ones), click the “edit

query” button on various pages, including:

• Search history

• Document results

• Saved searches pages

Afterwards, save the new search in your saved search list.

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Tip #17 – Edit your search, cont’d

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order

• If you don’t use all the refine options or if you have a preferred

refinement order that you would like to see on a Scopus results

page, you can rearrange and save the preferred order for your refine

panel.

• You can reset your custom refine panel sort order using the “restore

original settings” at the bottom of the refine panel.

• The “export refine” options allows you to export all the document

counts listed in the refine panel facets to a .csv file.

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order, cont’d

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Tip #18 – Save refine panel facets order, cont’d

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Tip #19 – Share your document search results

On the

document

search results

page, select

the documents

you would like

to share and

click on the

email icon.

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Tip #20 – Advanced search / custom searching

• For custom searches

that require more

specific filtering the

advanced search

provides separate

field options.

• You can use “outline

query” to clean up

long queries and

provide a more

comprehensive

overview.

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Tip #21 – Manage your alerts

On your personal

alerts page, edit,

delete or temporarily

disable your alerts:

• Search

• Author citation

• Document citation

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Tip #22 – Save your documents to your custom list

Manually

select

documents

to save

them to a

new or

existing list.

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Tip #23 – Group authors together

On the author

details page, view

other potential

author matches

that might be the

same author as

the one displayed

on the author

details page and

group them

together.

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Tip #24 – Analyze search results

By year, source,

author, country,

subject area and

more, with

interactive plots

you can tweak

directly online

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Tip #24 – Analyze search results, cont’d

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Tip #25 – Compare sources to find the best one for you

To find the most

relevant

documents,

check out the

sources and

compare them

to each other.