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““The Research Process: The Research Process: Providing your Researchers Providing your Researchers

with the Right Tools to with the Right Tools to Achieve Success” Achieve Success”

Stephanie Faulkner

Research in Context

• Highly valued and essential; most commonly found through library and Increasingly read from library e-collection

• More articles are published every year and Scientists are reading more to keep up with their field

• Peer reviewed journals are essential but pre-pub is also, due to speed of availability

• E-journal systems and search engines provide access to more journals and articles quickly

Average Minutes per Article by University Faculty Member

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Year of StudiesSource: Dr. Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee (web.utk.edu/~tenopir/)

Average Articles Read Per Year and Per Academic Discipline

Year of Studies

Source: Dr. Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee (web.utk.edu/~tenopir/)

Number of Articles per Researcher

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Source: Dr. Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee (web.utk.edu/~tenopir/)

Conclusions

• RESULT - More articles to read and manage, and less time spent—average of 34 minutes

• Scientist read many articles each year, from a variety of journals and e-resources and the amount of reading is going up; with average amount of time spent decreasing

• Journal issues are good for browsing and current awareness; electronic articles found by searching are important for research and teaching

Research in Context

Need for tools to manage this massive influx of electronic information is

even more crucial to their work flow process! More so than ever in the

past…..

How do the experts react?…

"Time is a precious commodity for academics, and researchers who don't use bibliographic management tools put themselves at a real

competitive disadvantage.”

Christopher Mackie Princeton University

RefWorks-COS provides tools, data and support for every phase of research, from vetting the first hypothesis to obtaining funding and getting published. All our products are designed to help researchers, faculty and students work at their best and achieve their research goals.

Indispensable tools for research at its best

Keep Current.

This personal, current awareness service, covering over 8,600 sources, provides researchers with immediate access to new research and publications in their field…all within hours of being posted online!

Funding OpportunitiesFunding Opportunities

FindFunding.

A global database, packed with 25,000 records of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion, COS Funding Opportunities helps you find grants and fellowships, and other monies form both private and public sponsors. Updated daily!

Scholar Universe Scholar Universe

Develop Networks.

A database of 2 million profiles of scholars and researchers from around the world that helps you find potential collaborators, peer–reviewers, mentors, consultants and experts. Your network is the world’s scholarly community!

Manage Research.

A web-based research management tool that allows researchers to ….. access, organize, collaborate and disseminate! Compatible with all major browsers. Seamless links with all major platform. Store and manage all types of data. Format bibliographies and manuscripts in over 1,200 styles!

Collaborate.

A tool for global dissemination and publications of databases and bibliographies. Allows for easy sharing of data with colleagues or other researchers.

Publish &Present.

Papers Invited Papers Invited

A database of nearly 12,000 calls for papers from conferences and societies all over the world, in a wide range of disciplines, to help you find a venue to present and publish your research papers.

Every day, you’ll be glad you chose RefWorks-COS.

• Used by over 1,500 elite research and academic organizations• Comprehensive, valuable data• Web based and maintenance free• Superior support and training = higher usage• A partner that listens…..

“The service has so many usability

features----intuitive interface, Web

access and unlimited

concurrent users, as well as

integration with our internal resources. “

“RefWorks is the most intuitive and least problematic

of any bibliographic

software that I have used. It’s

invaluable.”

“If you juggle citations for any reason—writing,

research---RefWorks is so much more than

just a web based program. It can be

your lifeline.”

“We have used RefWorks in our

library for several years now and

absolutely love it. It is easy to use and

our students become very

proficient, very quickly.”

"I mean we are talking about a way cool program - say

good bye to the stress of

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"I LOVE this program! No

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For More Information…

Stephanie Faulknerstephanie.faulkner@refworks-cos.com

Technical Services: support@refworks.comSales: Cenfor International, Anna Merlo

amerlo@cenfor.it

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Thank you!