Month: May 2011
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Everyone's a winner with free AWS credits for Mendeley's $10001 Binary Battle API contest.
As the summer arrives, you may be thinking about taking some time off, maybe going to the beach to do something about that unhealthy pallor you acquired poring over the literature this past semester. Forget all that. Go buy some Vitamin D and come back inside, because I know exactly how you should spend the…
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The Top 10 research papers in computer science by Mendeley readership.
Since we recently announced our $10001 Binary Battle to promote applications built on the Mendeley API, I decided to take a look at the data to see what people have to work with. My analysis focused on our second largest discipline, Computer Science. My discipline, Biological Sciences, is the largest, but I started with this…
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Science and Drinks at Mendeley was a success!
Last Friday, 30 folks came over to the Mendeley offices in New York for drinks and conversation. Attendees were from all over the city, including NYU, Columbia, City University of New York, Einstein College of Medicine, and Nature Publishing’s NY. James Hedges and Umesh Rajashekar, post-docs from The Laboratory for Computational Vision at New York…
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HOWTO: edit citation styles for use in Mendeley
Mendeley uses the Citation Style Language v1.0 to format citations and bibliographies in our Word and OpenOffice plugins. Although we provide styles for 1000+ journals, we realize this isn’t enough for everyone. If you need to customize a citation style and are not scared of editing a little XML (it’s actually not that difficult), read…
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