Mendeley Data Monitor webinar: 10 September 2020

A webinar on the Mendeley Data Monitor, presented by Mohamed Khairy from Elsevier, was hosted by the UP Department of Library Services on 10 September 2020.

The Mendeley Data Monitor is a tool developed by Elsevier to enable the automation of processes that are currently being performed manually to track the datasets of a university's researchers published in various data repositories (eg open data repositories and discipline- and publisher-specific repositories) across the world. 

In his presentation, Mr Khairy discussed the need to track and report research data outputs and gave examples to illustrate how most public research data is hosted outside institutions, and how cumbersome it is to manually track such data. He then explained how the Mendeley Data Monitor works, how this tool can be used to organise, curate and report on public research data and showcase public research datasets, and how it can be integrated with CRIS/RIMS systems though an API to perform advanced data search queries. The advantage that the use of this tool offers is that it could enable institutions to easily monitor compliance with policy and funder mandates, obtain higher scores for grant applications, increase an institution’s research data visibility, continue using its standard approval processes, and compare and benchmark its research data outputs. He further explained that the Mendeley Data Monitor is part of an end-to-end-solution and that other components, for example the Mendeley Data Search, the Mendeley Data Repository and Mendeley Data Manager, can be added to it. He also elaborated on plans for the further development of the Mendeley Data Monitor system and concluded his presentation with a demonstration of how the tool works. 

The event was attended by 45 participants who all found the information very valuable. Some even requested a recording of the presentation to share with their colleagues.

Mohamed Khairy from Elsevier