With the Mendeley for Life Scientists webinar coming up on Thursday, I thought I would take a look at the readership stats for Biological Sciences. Biological Sciences has long been our biggest discipline, and having done my doctoral work in the Life Sciences, I knew this would be interesting. Overall, researchers in bioinformatics contributed most strongly to the most read papers, along with the older disciplines of micro- and molecular biology. Regardless of discipline, however, it’s clear that the days of toiling away in isolation to thoroughly study one gene are over. Today, it’s all about huge consortia and massive data. Here’s what I found: (more…)

Calling all life scientists! Come learn about how you can use Mendeley to spend less time searching the literature and more time doing research! We’ll discuss topics such as:

• What Mendeley is (and what it’s not)
• Who’s using Mendeley
• How Mendeley takes the pain out of writing manuscripts
• Mendeley and intellectual property
• Mendeley’s role in the future of research

William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach (and PhD in Biomedical Science) will be conducting this session. There will be plenty of time for questions after and during the session. If this time doesn’t work for you, please check out the session schedule below or see our events page for an event near you. (more…)

Calling all librarian and information science professionals! Come learn about how researchers at your institution are using Mendeley and how you can use it to help patrons find what they’re looking for faster. We’ll discuss topics such as:

• What Mendeley is (and what it’s not)
• Who’s using Mendeley
• How Mendeley works with your existing information systems
• Mendeley and intellectual property
• Mendeley’s role in the future of libraries

William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach will be conducting this session. There will be plenty of time for questions after and during the session. If this time doesn’t work for you, please check out the session schedule below or see our events page for an event near you. (more…)

Calling all researchers and information professionals! We have a great schedule of instructional sessions targeted to your specific needs. Next up is “Building your Reference Library with Mendeley” on June 21st at 09:00 AM EDT / 01:00 PM GMT. Join us to learn about the many different ways to get information and documents into Mendeley so you can stay on top of your research.

Ricardo Vidal, Community Liaison for Mendeley, will be conducting this session. There will be plenty of time for questions after and during the session.

Date: Tuesday, June 21th 2011 Time: 09:00 AM EDT Presenter: Ricardo Vidal

NB: Unfortunately, GoToMeeting doesn’t work on Linux. We’re very sorry, but we haven’t found a better solution that allows us to accommodate a large number of attendees and supports all platforms. We’re currently looking at WebEx as a possible replacement.

Calling all librarian and information science professionals! Come learn about how researchers at your institution are using Mendeley and how you can use it to help patrons find what they’re looking for faster. We’ll discuss topics such as:

• What Mendeley is (and what it’s not)
• Who’s using Mendeley
• How Mendeley works with your existing information systems
• Mendeley and intellectual property
• Mendeley’s role in the future of libraries

William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach will be conducting this session. There will be plenty of time for questions after and during the session.

Date: Friday, May 20th 2011 Time: 10:00 am EDT Presenter: William Gunn

UPDATE: You can attend via ipad with the updated GoToMeeting software, but you’ll need to update on the day of the webinar, so join a bit early.

After the recent Webinars for CGIAR, we are happy to announce two free-for-all Webinars open to the general public. On Tuesday (February 23^rd, 5:00 pm GMT) and Wednesday (February 24^th, 9:30 pm GMT) Victor Henning, our director and co-founder and William Gunn, Community Liaison will demonstrate Mendeley’s collaborative features. There will be time for a Q&A session as well as a chance for you to share your experiences with Mendeley. To join, just pick one of the two webinars and pop over to the registration page to sign up.

Date: Tuesday, February 23rd 2010 Time: 5:00 pm GMT Presenter: William Gunn

Date: Wednesday, February 24th 2010 Time: 9:30 am GMT Presenter: Victor Henning

You’re a Mendeley power-user already? Then why not share this info with your friends and colleagues that are still looking for a free tool to manage their references and papers? They’ll thank you…

Last week we hosted two Webinars for scientists and information professionals from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an international network of research institutions as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. CGIAR is aiming to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries using scientific research and research-related activities in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, policy, and the environment. We are always pleased to find out about new areas of research, and to see that many people are already using Mendeley. Over at CGIAR’s ICT and Knowledge Management Department, Mendeley is widely considered to be an “intuitive, easy-to-use tool for online reference management” – Thanks, Meena!

So how global is global, then? Looking at the attendees of last week’s webinars: very, very global! Mendeley is being used in so many diverse locations – there were CGIAR researchers, librarians, and knowledge management specialists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, the UK and the USA. And it’s great to see that we can help to make research easier.

We are planning to offer more webinars very soon. If you or your organization is interested in a tailor-made web seminar, please let us know at community@mendeley.com.