Month: July 2011
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Mendeley 1.0 is here!
Today, the world’s largest crowdsourced research library (that’s us) released version 1.0 of our desktop software, after almost 3 years in beta. This release comes just after two other significant milestones: the 1 millionth download of our application and the 100 millionth research document upload to our open research catalog. Key updates include duplicate detection,…
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Join us for Mendeley for Librarians, a free instructional session on July 26th at 1 PM EDT
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…
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Gregor Mendel, Father of Genetics and original hacker
At Mendeley, we took the inspiration for our name from Gregor Mendel, so it’s only proper that we would take a moment to recognize him on this day, the 189th anniversary of his birth. There’s also been a lot of attention given to the use and misuse of the word hacker in the news recently,…
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The Top 5 papers in Educational Research on Mendeley
Educational researchers on Mendeley are a diverse bunch. While there’s definitely a technology flavor to the readership, each subdiscipline has its distinct literature without as much overlap as the sciences tend to have. That said, there were some common favorites. A paper on digital natives (and why the concept isn’t that useful) was one of…
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Why We Publish
It isn’t to obtain tenure. And it isn’t for money. Although to some, that is what publishing has become. The rationale for why we publish is (should be) to communicate results to as great an audience as possible and advance our understanding of the world around us. At Mendeley, we started to wonder how we…
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