Virtual research networks: towards Research 2.0 #emtacl10

Guus van den Brekel (Central Medical Library, UMCG)

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Motivation: library disconnects from users, users bypassing the library. Gap between the user environment en the library resource environment. Why is this user environment that important? So many restrictions, you have to stick with the CMS, library system, etc etc.

Go into the user invironment, personal startpages and take aways library toolboxes, to use in netvibes or igoogle.

Users want diversity, platform and format are not important anymore, and neither time.

www.go2web20.net overview of web2.0 applications.

Corporate web presence scan. On netvibes searches for the company name. PR and Communications department were impressed.

Mekentosj papers (iphone app). Offering users an easy way to manage these from t he mobile. No libraries involved yet, but you can access your library’s proxy.

What’s happening in the World is bypassing university libraries.

Researchers can discover new things other researchers are doing in other parts of the wordl through web 2.0 tools.

Major benefits: faster results and better knowledge.

VREs are a good way to feature library researchers. Be involved in the research output.