The library’s role in expanding Spanish research impact CSUC Libraries (CBUC)

Summary Presentation and thanks Presentation of CBUC/CSUC From Refworks to Mendeley Current work with Mendeley Satisfaction and expectations Questions, comments

CBUC/CSUC: Who we are? A non profit public organization established in 1996 Composed of the: 12 public universities of Catalonia the national library of Catalonia the Catalan government universities and research department 60 associated members 2013 CBUC merged with a supercomputing consortium and form CSUC (consortium to provide services to universities). Now CBUC is a division of the CSUC

What does the CBUC do? Provides services that could not be achieved individually: CCUC Interlibrary loan Warehouse to conserve printed books and journals with low use Generates savings by economies of scale In cataloguing Interlibrary loan Sharing infrastructures

A lot of working groups Cataloguing Consortial borrowing ILL Warehouse Licensing digital resources Digital repositories TOCs data base Millennium System librarians Virtual reference Marketing Mendeley

The Mendeley VIP Librarians Team

How do we work? - Wiki platform - Mailing list - Regularly meetings - Weekly calls - Mails to support - 2 visits Within VIPs groupWith Elsevier- Mendeley

Where do we come from? 2006 Start using Refworks accounts created Mb of disk space used active accounts*

Why did we change? Mendeley… ● Better answer our researchers needs ● Helps researchers find mates & work in groups ● Easy to use So it helps us foster Catalan universities research

Our road with Mendeley May 2013 First contact with Mendeley - Elsevier June 2013 Decision to move to Mendeley Mendeley train the trainer webminar Mendeley Kick - off meeting Follow-up Mendeley visit Elsevier Day … and all the help we have received from Mendeley - Elsevier

The migration process researchers Mendeley free users UAB, UdG, UPC UB, UPF, URV, UDL, UOC, BC, Uvic, URL, UIB, UJI In the meantime: ● Calls VIP Librarians with Mendeley - Elsevier ● Migration training sessions for users ● Reminders End of Refworks subscription – Engagement Mendeley users

Reminders ● s to researchers, professors & PhD ● s to Refworks active users ● Library newsletters ● Social network advertising ● Librarians signature ● Count-down watch in Refworks institutional start page

Shared resources & materials -Web landing pages per institution servei/gestor-de-referencies - UAB video - UPC advisors video - Translated quick reference guide & migration guide into Catalan and Spanish

Training sessions Mendeley Train the trainer VIP Librarians Researchers Librarians Professors PhD students Undergraduates Administration

Marketing material - Posters (Elsevier/Mendeley) - Science Direct Banner - Other marketing material

Marketing material - Bookmarks - UAB Banner

What is left for 2014? ● Work with Users satisfaction survey results ● Gain more engagement: Mendeley users and Mendeley Premium users ● Better interaction with databases, catalogues, etc. ● Citation Styles: capitalization, particles, italics ● Make complicated features easier in such an easy tool as Mendeley!

Mendeley Premium, a positive experience! Questions? Comments? Thank you very much for your attention!