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

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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 The Mendeley VIP Librarians Team

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

8 Where do we come from? 2006 Start using Refworks 57.497 accounts created 69.304 Mb of disk space used 16.652 active accounts*

9 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

10 Our road with Mendeley May 2013 First contact with Mendeley - Elsevier June 2013 Decision to move to Mendeley 19.09.13 Mendeley train the trainer webminar 02.10.13 Mendeley Kick - off meeting 26.11.13 Follow-up Mendeley visit 02.04.13 Elsevier Day … and all the help we have received from Mendeley - Elsevier

11 The migration process 10.10.13 - 64.787 researchers 3.482 Mendeley free users 14.10.13 - UAB, UdG, UPC 21.10.13 - 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 31.12.13 - End of Refworks subscription 13.05.14 – Engagement 15.689 Mendeley users

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

13 Shared resources & materials -Web landing pages per institution http://www.csuc.cat/ca/biblioteques/biblioteca-digital-de-catalunya/descripcio-del- servei/gestor-de-referencies - UAB video http://polimedia.uab.cat/#v_500 - UPC advisors video http://hdl.handle.net/2099.2/3589 - Translated quick reference guide & migration guide into Catalan and Spanish http://docs.cbuc.cat/fitxers/5digital/fitxes/docs/Guia_migracio_MendeleyCAT.pdf http://docs.cbuc.cat/fitxers/5digital/fitxes/docs/Guia_us_MendeleyCAT.pdf

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

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

16 Marketing material - Bookmarks - UAB Banner

17 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!

18 Mendeley Premium, a positive experience! Questions? Comments? Thank you very much for your attention! Monica.bonich@upc.edu Anna.rovira@upc.edu


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