Month: November 2011
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Winners of the first Binary Battle Apps for Science Contest
We, along with PLoS, have been overwhelmed by the huge response that academics and the developer community have given to open up science. When we announced this contest to develop science applications on top of the Mendeley and PLoS platforms last March, we were not totally sure that anyone would even be interested. Boy, were…
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When publishing a research paper, it's best to be sure.
About a week ago, I had the pleasure of attending Science Hack Day with about 150 other scientists and hackers. It was an amazingly fun event with people from all over the world coming together to build cool, quirky, and otherwise awesome things over the span of a weekend. It’s a sort of high holy…
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Calling all Librarians! Questions about Mendeley? Join us for a free webinar and Q&A on 2011-11-22 at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST
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. This session is appropriate for folks with no prior experience, but we’ll also go in depth in some areas and there will…
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Join us for Mendeley for Professors 2011-11-22 at 9 AM PST / 12 noon EST
If you’re like most professors I know, you’d like to keep up with technology, but you just don’t have the time to sit down and spend a few hours learning how to use a new application. We understand. Give us 40 minutes of your time on the 22nd and we’ll get you up and running,…
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Your chance to decide the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle winner
We now have our Top 10+1 Binary Battle apps. We are sending those on to our panel of expert judges: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO), John Wilbanks (VP for Science at Creative Commons), James Powell (Thomson Reuters CTO), Juan Enriquez (Managing Directo of Excel Venture Management), and Tim O’Reilly (Founder of O’Reilly Media). Now though is…
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