Download - Research Network
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.