Year: 2012
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Mendeley Desktop 1.5 Preview Available
A preview release of Mendeley Desktop 1.5 is available. Improvements in this release include: Re-worked Windows Word plugin which adds support for 64bit Word 2010, improves document refresh performance, fixes several plugin installation problems and should help to improve stability. The Undo/Redo buttons in Word 2010 can now be used to undo or redo changes…
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Citing research is about to get a whole lot easier.
The most laborious part of any research paper for me, and probably for many of you, is making sure that the references are formatted in the proper style. Is the title supposed to be in italics? Do I need a period or a comma here? It has always seemed like exactly the kind of thing…
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On sharing research and the value of peer-review: Mendeley's response to #SOPA and the Research Works Act.
UPDATE: The RFIs have now been posted and there’s a petition opposing the RWA on whitehouse.gov. The US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently issued a Request for Information on their existing policy requiring some federally-funded work to be submitted to Pubmed Central, where it’s freely accessible to the public. We were…
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Announcing the Mendeley Institutional Edition – powered by Swets
The new year brings some big news! We’ve partnered with Swets, a subscription management company, to create the Mendeley Institutional Edition. This tool will allow librarians and institutions to connect their collection directly to researchers, aid collaboration among students, professors, and colleagues, and see the impact of the institution’s research output. Within their institutional profile,…
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