Month: August 2011
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Mendeley Desktop 1.1 Preview
A preview release of Mendeley Desktop 1.1 is available. This release includes several performance improvements in the Microsoft Word plugins alongside a number of stability and usability enhancements. You can download the preview from the right-hand side of the downloads page. You can give us feedback on this release in the feedback forum, the comments…
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What the scientific community wants computers to do for them: The results of the PLoS and Mendeley Call for Apps
A little over a week ago, PLoS and Mendeley got together to issue a “Call for Apps” to the scientific community. We have now collected some really great ideas which we’d like to pass along to the developer community. Some of the ideas are Binary Battle-ready, while others are just kinda cool, so take a…
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Want to hear about the latest trends in research? Please join us on August 16th at 2PM EDT for Mendeley for Journalists
Calling all journalists and news industry professionals! Come learn about how researchers are using Mendeley and how you can use it to discover research trends and quickly get an understanding of the hottest scientific ideas. We’ll discuss topics such as: organizing a research library, discovering scientific research, enhancing your content, expanding and tracking readership, and…
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Remembering John Venn, famous British logician, biographer, and maker of diagrams.
Born 1834 in Yorkshire, John Venn was the 8th Venn to have a college education, mostly because his family held a pretty high status in the Christian church. As you probably know, until relatively recently, higher education was mostly a function of the church. As such, he probably enjoyed quite a few privileges and opportunities…
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