Month: November 2009

• Painting of Flying Spaghetti Monster's oddly shaped halo emerges

  Here is an alternative version of Michelangelo’s fabled Flying Spaghetti Monster painting – this one includes His halo, shining a divine light on His Noodly Appendage. The halo looks otherworldly, yet eerily familiar. You can grab a larger version off the Mendeley Flickr account. Hat tip to Niklas Jansson, who was the first to be…

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  victorhenning

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  November 9, 2009

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• Stanford vs Cambridge: The race is on!

  I was doing some research to see which universities have the most Mendeley users, when I thought it might be fun to see how these universities have grown day by day, over the last three months. The chart below shows just that: the top 10 Mendeley universities, and the growth in user base in each…

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  Andrew Pickin

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  November 6, 2009

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• BBC World Service features Mendeley, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Google Wave

  The current edition of the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet has a couple of nice interviews with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Cameron Neylon on Google Wave, and me talking about Mendeley. My segment starts at 7:54mins – I haven’t listened to it because, as I explained earlier, watching/listening to myself makes me cringe like the…

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  victorhenning

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  November 5, 2009

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• Bibliographies here, bibliographies there, bibliographies anywhere!

  If you are currently a Mendeley Desktop user, you will have already noticed that it comes with built-in plug-ins for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer. These plug-ins are really useful for adding citations to your Word/Writer documents and build your bibliography dynamically. Now, what if you happen to want to add a bibliography section in…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  November 2, 2009

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