Meet our March Advisor of the Month!
Congratulations and thank you to Othman Talib!
Othman became an Advisor just last month after letting us
know about the hundreds of seminars he was teaching all across Malaysia
since 2011. How Othman managed to stay under our radar for a long
time…we don’t know how, but we are sure glad to know him now!
His talks integrates Mendeley with the academic thesis
writing process and he’s developed an entire program of maximizing
Mendeley and academic writing, full of interesting acronyms like:
ZDOT (Zero Draft of Thesis);
SROT (Speed Reading On Target);
FBOT (Filter Based On Theme);
OTOT (Operational Template of Thesis);
AFOT( Article’s Framework Of Thesis)
…and so on. If you can’t tell, Othman really loves his
acronyms. Have you seen a common theme in his acronyms? “As you notice
my name is OT (Othman Talib) and now I’m OTFM (Official Trainer for
Mendeley)!! People and friends call me just “OT” or “Dr. OT” he said.
Othman has written a book about Mendeley in Malay and is now working on its English translation.
How did you get into research and what do you research?
I received a Bachelor in Chemistry, Master in science
education (both in Malaysia) and Doctor of Education in Science
Education from The University of Adelaide, Australia.
I’m interested in research regarding science animation and
now in the process of developing Apps for Organic Reaction Mechanisms.
How long have you been on Mendeley?What were you using prior to Mendeley?
I used EndNote during my studies. Then in 2010, I tried
Mendeley because its free!! I was so surprised Mendeley is so easy to
learn and then I started to use it in my research. Then I posted the
steps of using Mendeley in my blog and now my blog is approaching 1 million reviews!
How does Mendeley influence your research?
Mendeley is a superb Reference Manager. Its easy to use, to
learn and such a complete package for managing articles. I combine the
use of Mendeley with my own technique, Zero Draft of Thesis (ZDOT),
Dropbox, and MS Word, it becomes a complete, efficient and fast way to
prepare an academic manuscripts (thesis, proposal, project, report etc)
Why did you decide to become an Advisor?
I just love to share with others in the Mendeley Advisor group.
How have you been spreading the word about Mendeley?
I’m a lecturer of Research Methodology at Universiti Putra
Malaysia. I’m also a consultant for my university as well as a speaker
for Malaysian Postgraduates Workshop Series. I’m also an advisor for few
government agencies. Most of the institutions invited me because they
want to learn Mendeley from me.
I wrote a lot about Mendeley in my blog, as well as in my Facebook.
I have thousands of friends in facebook and thousands of followers for
my blog. My books such as ZDOT and Mendeley are also sold out and need
to be reprinted!!
Feel free to explore my Facebook and blog. You can see the word Mendeley even if you don’t understand the Malay language.
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