Month: December 2010

• Managing your research the modern way: search as an interface to your research

  This post is the second in a series, looking back over the changes in information management over the past decade. Three major and interrelated developments are the move to querying databases of information as opposed to loading information from individual files, the practice of tagging bits of information as opposed to filing things in a…

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  drgunn

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  December 21, 2010

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• Managing your library the modern way with tags and filters.

  As the year gets to the end, everyone writes “Best of” lists for the past year. I thought I would do something similar, but since we’re at the end of not only a year, but a decade, it’s worthwhile to reflect on the changes in how people manage and organize their increasingly digital stores of…

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  drgunn

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  December 17, 2010

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• One on one with Bruce D'Arcus, creator of the community-driven Citation Style Language

  Most of our users know that Mendeley can format citations automatically in most word processors. Some may not realize, however, that this bit of magic wasn’t developed entirely by us. Rather, we use tools that were created by a global community of academics and released for everyone to use. I recently had a conversation with…

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  drgunn

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  December 9, 2010

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• One-on-One with Jessica Hammer, Game Researcher at Columbia University

  Jessica Hammer, a Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Fellow at Columbia University, shares her candid thoughts about Mendeley. She spills the beans on what made her start using it, as well as her likes and dislikes about the best tool yet for managing her heavy-duty research life. Thank you, Jessica, for taking the time to chat!…

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  Miji Choi

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  December 3, 2010

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