Month: May 2013
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Mendeley labs project turns heads at Webscience 2013
Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project [http://labs.mendeley.com], has been nominated for best poster by conference participants at Web Science 2013 [http://websci13.org]. Head Start is intended to facilitate and improve the process of literature search. The visualization aims at providing an overview of an academic field, based on Mendeley data. Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project,…
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Mendelife – Meet Branden Faulls
Branden is our VP Product, known online by the mysterious alias of “omphe”. To pronounce it, he explains, imagine being hit in the gut with a sack full of marshmallows. How long have you been with Mendeley for? Since May 2012 Where did you work before coming to Mendeley ? I was a…
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Mythical Science
A much talked-about book has recently raised an interesting subject: Is there science behind monsters, and our enduring fascination with them? Stories about scary mythical creatures are everywhere and have been around for as long as people have been able to tell stories and create these mythologies. Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s bite: the science of…
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Do you know an example of open access research helping the public good? Nominate the team for a $30k ASAP award!
The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program. If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is to reward people for…
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Mendeley contributes 2000 citation styles to the open citation style repository at citationstyles.org
Scholars looking to publish in one of the approximately 30,000 peer reviewed scholarly journals (per Ulrich’s) have a big problem on their hands. They have to prepare the text of their manuscript according to the style specified by the journal, process the images as specified by the journal, prepare the necessary disclosures, deposit datasets into…
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