Altmetric for SCOPUS

Altmetric for Scopus is a powerful 3rd party web application that runs within the new DIT Library database Scopus . It appears in the sidebar of the article and abstract pages. It's a quick and easy way to see all of the social or mainstream media mentions gathered for a particular paper as well as reader counts on popular reference managers.
The Altmetric application is currently installed for all Scopus users by default but will only appear in the sidebar when there is data available for the article that you're currently viewing. You can find it underneath the "Related Documents" box on the right hand side of the screen.

What does Altmetric do?

Altmetric watches social media sites (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+), science blogs, many mainstream media outlets (including the NY Times, The Guardian, non-English language publications like Die Zeit & Le Monde and special interest publications like Scientific American, New Scientist) and reference managers for mentions of academic papers.
It cleans up this data, enriches it and then allows authors, readers and researchers to see it in context.
Though not every article is discussed in public online Altmetric tracks over a hundred thousand mentions a week. Well worth a look alongside the regular bibliometric SCOPUS functionality.

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Mendeley citation software: new social media tool for researchers and academics

Since its launch in 2009, mendeley.com has gathered a user base of two million who have, to date, uploaded more than 280 million documents between them. It began as a software tool for organizing papers from scholarly journals but has become a platform for connecting like-minded researchers and helping academics discover new papers. This is one of the many technology services, including Altmetric, Academica.edu and Zotero, that are enabling university researchers to go digital and get social.

While the focus of Mendeley has primarily been to improve the productivity of researchers by taking the labour out of document search and organisation, the founders are keen to move it forward: The next step involves connecting people as well as documents. It will help researchers discover groups on Mendeley doing similar work to them and use that to connect people with other academics with whom they might want to collaborate.  Link to the full Irish Times article by Marie Boran here. 

Being Digital: effective online skills

Being digital is a collection of short, easy to follow activities and youtube clips from the OU. They cover the skills we all need to be effective online, whether it’s searching efficiently, critically evaluating information, communicating and sharing online, or selecting the right online tool for your needs. Being digital can help you develop essential skills for study, work and lifelong learning. Give it a go and see what you think.

PerSSonalised Medicine resource

Keeping track of updates and news in your subject area can be time-consuimg and even confusing at times.
PeRSSonalisd Medcine is a free customizable aggregator of quality medical resources in social media. View medical and biomedical realted news, subject tags, a selection of journal article updates, blogs, podcasts, slideshows and Youtube videos on your topic all in one place. Customize it to suit your research interest.

Webicinia

Webicina is a free service that provides curated medical social media resources in over 80 medical topics in over 17 languages for medical professsionals and students. An webicina app is available for smartphone use. A selection of social media resources in medical and biomedical specialties are provided such as:

• Nutrition
• Microbiology
• Endocrinology
• Pathology
• Ophthalmology
• Bioinformatics
• Pharma
• Vaccines

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