Month: August 2012
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How-to series: How to search your notes (and other fields) [part 10 of 12]
Search has become such a fundamental part of our daily routine. Everyone uses search tools, everyday. Google, spotlight, file search, etc. There is just too much information to properly organize, memorize and store in a structured fashion. But that is ok. Mendeley Desktop provides you with a multitude of ways to organize, filter and search…
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Mendeley handles 100 million calls for Open Science, per month
Imagine the rich ecosystem of third-party Facebook and Twitter apps, now emerging in the domain of science. More than 240 applications for research collaboration, measurement, visualization, semantic markup, and discovery – all of which have been developed in the past year – receive a constant flow of data from Mendeley. Today, Mendeley announced that the…
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Making Openness Work: An interview with Barry Bunin of Collaborative Drug Discovery
I recently had the chance to sit down with Barry Bunin to talk about his new drug discovery platform, Collaborative Drug Discovery. As you may guess from the title, he’s taking a novel approach to drug discovery. Modern drug discovery faces huge challenges due to the economic inefficiency of the process where hundreds of millions…
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Here's one solution for the reproducibility crisis in scientific research.
We talk a lot about open access here, but one thing we haven’t delved into as much as we could is the question of the quality of the research. We have plenty of data on the attention the world’s academics are paying to research outputs (watch this space for more on this) but we haven’t…
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Leading universities adopt Mendeley data to accelerate research analytics by 3 years
This week, leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia signed up to Mendeley’s new data dashboard, the Mendeley Institutional Edition. The dashboard analyses their research activity and impact on the global research community in real time – down from the 3-5 year time lag of the “Impact Factor”, the current gold standard for…
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