Month: February 2014
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Stuck on a Protocol? A Simple Click Will Do the Trick
Video demonstrations for online scientific articles are now just one click away. By Phil Meagher at JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) Communicating scientific protocols is difficult. Word count limitations result in ambiguous protocols and techniques are becoming increasingly cross-disciplinary and complicated. As a result, reproducing experiments is frustrating. But there is a solution.…
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Read journal articles for free at your local library with Access to Research
A new service has been launched in the UK to give the public access to academic content through their local libraries, free of charge. Access to Research is a search interface available at participating public libraries which retrieves relevant results from across the platforms of many different publishers, thousands of journals, and millions…
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MIT Libraries adopt Mendeley Institutional Edition for all their users
MIT announced that it is now offering enhanced Mendeley access for all its users. They purchased the Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) which gives all users at a subscribing institution 5GB of personal space in Mendeley (as opposed to the usual 2GB that all users get with a free account) and 20GB of…
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Quicker Literature Reviews with the Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Preview
Today we’re announcing a preview of the next release of Mendeley Desktop, which adds an experimental feature to help you explore papers and find relevant information in them more quickly. This improved reading experience is initially available for Open Access papers, but we’re hoping to expand it to additional content in future. Table of Contents…
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Export directly from Scopus and Science Direct!
You know that nice feeling you get when things just work? Well, here at Mendeley we love coming up with ways to make that happen for researchers everywhere, and building features that save them time is usually a good way to go about it. As a PhD student myself, I know that one of…
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