Currently Experiencing Downtime Caused by Spam Attack

Published on October 7, 2009 in Announcements. Closed

Dear 2collab users,

Regrettably, 2collab was taken down by a spam attack yesterday.  We are currently examining a solution, but are unable to put the site up again for the short term.  I will write back with an ETA as soon as we have one.

Regards,

Michael

2collab Product Manager

Engaging a New Generation of Authors, Editors, and Reviewers – Presentation for Boston Editors’ Conference

Published on April 23, 2009 in Social Media and web 2.0. 1 Comment

Hi All,

I will be running breakout sessions at the Elsevier Editors’ conference this coming Saturday.  One of my main suggestions is using 2collab to share presentations, images, etc. that are related to articles, so I figured I should practice what I preach.  For a summary of the presentation, please check out this post on my personal blog.

Key questions from that post are:

When you get a chance, please take a look at the presentation and let me know if you have any suggestions about how journal editor’s or authors can use social media.
Also, please send any examples you know of editors using social media such as blogs or Flickr to interact with authors, editorial boards, or readers. Thanks.

Engaging a New Generation of Authors, Reviewers & Readers through Web 2.0

View more presentations from Michael Habib.

9 hour scheduled downtime April 4-5

Published on April 2, 2009 in Downtime and Service announcement. Closed

Hello 2collab Community,

I would first like to quickly introduce myself. I was hoping my first post would be something a little more upbeat than this, but the downtime can’t wait for me to post. I recently entered the role of Product Manager for 2collab. I will post a proper introduction soon. In the meantime, to get a better idea of who I am, please feel free to check out my personal blog (which does not represent Elsevier in anyway) and my LinkedIn.

As for the topic of this post, I just wanted to let you know that we have scheduled downtime for upgrades. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this might cause. Details are below.

Best,
Michael Habib
2collab Product Manager

EDT:
Start time for outages = 6:00 PM on 4-April
End time for outages = 3:00 AM on 5-April

GMT:
Start time for outages = 22:00 on 4-April
End time for outages = 7:00 AM on 5-April

2collab is joining in the online conversation

Published on February 19, 2009 in Announcements. Closed

Hi everyone, we’re just getting started on twitter http://twitter.com/2collab.

Here is a comment from one of our followers:

“2collab is getting a lot of twitter love today. (they are) sending personal shout-outs – av. nice touch! Keep up the good work.”

                                             —-@shamsha (Clinical Librarian, MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Best,

Elaine

Add your Scopus Author ID to promote your papers

Published on January 29, 2009 in Announcements. Closed

Hi everyone, I’m Elaine and just joined the 2collab team. I heard about this great feature for authors to profile their work and thought I’d share it.

If you have published papers that are indexed by Scopus then you can import them automatically into 2collab and share them with your colleagues. All you need to do is visit http://scopus.com/authoridentifier, search for yourself and check your details to find your Scopus Author ID(s). Then copy that ID into your 2collab profile and save. Your can add as many IDs as you have.

Your publication history is now saved for you to share as widely as you wish.

Elaine

How Scientists Are Harnessing Social Media

Published on December 5, 2008 in News highlights, Research Workflow and Social Media. Closed

I wanted to share these slides that Fabian Kersten presented at the Online Information conference in London this week. He talked about some of the insights from our survey, the one about how Scientists use social media applications, and how they expect them to influence their research work in the future. He also gave a run-down of the features of 2collab itself. Apparently it was standing-room-only!

Afterwards, Dick Kaser of Information Today commented on his blog that “2collab, IMHE, blends a full range of Web 2.0 tools into a platform that should make sense to, and is totally appropriate for, the research community, at least the digital native end of it.  Wave of the future?  Quite possibly. Added value on top of the literature?  You bet.  The type of innovation I would expect from the market leader?  Ab.sol.ute.ly.”

Thanks Dick!

Camelia

Formatting bibliographies with 2collab

Published on December 2, 2008 in New features and bibliography. Closed

Hi Everyone, another new feature alert here.

While you’re collecting papers in 2collab for your ongoing research, you can now use 2collab to format them into your bibliography: select a list of bookmarked papers from ‘My Bookmarks’, use the arrow button for export, and select the bibliography style of the journal to which you’ll submit your paper. The available styles are:

  • APA – American Psychological Association
  • ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
  • ACS – American Chemical Society
  • AMA – American Medical Association
  • CBE – Council of Biology Editors
  • Chicago 15th Edition
  • Elsevier
  • Harvard
  • MLA – Modern Language Association
  • Turabian
  • Vancouver

    Next to this, you can also format a citation into one of the above styles, directly from the ‘Details‘ view of any 2collab bookmark. Then just copy and paste directly into your manuscript.

    As always please drop us a line with any questions about this or any other 2collab feature at feedback@2collab.com.

    Thanks,

    Camelia

    Web 2.0 Business Successes (and we’re one of them)

    Published on November 20, 2008 in News highlights and web 2.0. Closed

    Interesting article here from Information Age about ten “outstanding examples of business social media projects harnessing the power of community and collaboration”. We’re more than a little pleased that 2collab made the list.

    An excerpt from their interview with our MD:

    2collab [...] not only allows the users to interact with the content itself, but provides Elsevier with valuable insight into how readers perceive the content. “We can start to build that into indexing and search algorithms,” explains Jay Katzen, Elsevier’s managing director for academic and government products.

    These tools and services represent a fundamental shift in Elsevier’s role, says Katzen, from publisher to ‘information solution provider’. “In the end we are trying to improve research performance productivity,” Katzen explains, “and enable researchers to connect to each other in new and better ways.”

    Major new features added today!

    Published on October 31, 2008 in New features. 1 Comment

    Well we promised you enhancements and new features and here they are. Some of the key changes you will notice straight away are:

    1. A brand new logged-in homepage which has been redesigned to include a relevant dashboard of recent and related activity such as: ‘my bookmarks’ showing your recent activity in 2collab; ‘new bookmarks in my groups’ to easily see what others are sharing with you; and ‘new bookmarks in my research fields’ to show what bookmarks could be relevant to you in your subject areas.

    We’ve also redesigned the non-logged in homepage too so that new visitors immediately see that 2collab is built specifically for researchers.

    2. When you bookmark a scientific paper (either in 2collab directly or through the browser button you have installed) we can now use any information you have about that article such as title, DOI, or URL to try to retrieve and pre-populate the complete citation information, where available. This goes for any article and any publisher.

    3. 2collab has started applying subject categories to all bookmarks (including existing ones), which means you can browse all available bookmarks by subject, add an area of interest to your profile to make it easier to find information and people in your field, and include subject categories in imports/exports.

    4. You can now invite several people at one time to join a group instead of entering email addresses one-by-one; a convenient enhancement to the invitation feature.

    5. Several great new video tutorials that cover a general overview, registering and logging in, browsing bookmarks, adding bookmarks, browsing and creating personal profiles, and joining and creating groups.

    Thanks to everyone who has been in touch with comments and suggestions. Please continue to give us your feedback on how you (would like to) work with 2collab.

    Browser button now Firefox 3 compliant!

    Published on July 25, 2008 in New features. Closed

    Hi All – We just wanted to let everyone know that our browser button is now compatible with Firefox 3. So to install the browser button, just go to the ”Tools” menu and select ”downloads”. Happy bookmarking!

    Best regards
    -Brant
    Brant Emery, development manager