Month: October 2013
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Crowdsourcing and the value of curation – Mendeley pairs with F1000 Prime to recommend great research.
What makes Mendeley more than just a reference manager is the community of researchers who use our tool to share research, recommend papers to others, and collaboratively work together. In practical terms, what this means is that the work of finding and organizing a collection of papers about a specific topic can be shared by…
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Fancy some Pi? Hack In!
Hack Days have a strong tradition here at Mendeley, and every month the team has a day to pursue whatever projects they like, whether it’s a product improvement, a cool idea they have for Mendeley, the chance to learn some new skills, or do something fun! This month was no different, except that we decided…
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Mendeley at ACM Recommender Systems 2013
By Mark Levy, Senior Data Scientist at Mendeley Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to Hong Kong to give two workshop presentations at the ACM Recommender Systems conference. The art and science of recommender systems have come some way since the first time that “users who like X also like Y” appeared…
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The Reproducibility Initiative, supported by Mendeley data, gets $1.3M to replicate key findings in cancer biology.
The Reproducibility Initiative, a project we’ve written about before, has reached a major milestone. They have been awarded $1.3M in funding from the Center for Open Science and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to replicate 50 key findings in cancer biology. Mendeley has supported the initiative by helping to design the selection process for…
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