Month: May 2014
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Meet our May Advisor of the Month!
Congratulations and thank you to Beatriz Benitez! Beatriz is part of our growing community of librarians who join the Advisor Community to become more involved with Mendeley and other tools used in the researcher workflow. Beatriz earned her degree in Library and Information Science from Universitat de Barcelona in 2004 and started working in Academic…
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Join us for our first Talk@Mendeley
Mendeley is hosting a series of talks designed to bring interesting topics to light and start some productive discussions in our community. The first one we bring you this Friday is about algorithms and the way that these days they impact every area of our lives. We know something of using algorithms to solve problems…
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Meet the QA/Support Team!
It’s a scenario that can give any researcher the cold sweats: an eleventh-hour crash of a program just minutes before a paper deadline. Luckily, thanks to the efforts of our Quality Assurance and Support team, Mendeley strives hard to ensure this never happens. While our developers put their all into designing a great product, Quality…
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Collaboration is Key to Making the Most of Big Data
On May 13th Mendeley Co-founder Jan Reichelt took part in a really exciting event hosted by the Big Data Institute, which was born out of a partnership between Reed Elsevier and UCL last year. For a whole day, major players from across business, education and academia got together to discuss what the big idea is…
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Mendeley API – Blackout Testing
Today we performed something known as a “Blackout test” on the Mendeley Open API. As those of you who develop apps against this API know, we are planning to phase out OAuth1 authentication in favour of OAuth2 permanently from 2014-05-18. We are doing this for a number of reasons: 1. Simplified authentication: OAuth2 doesn’t require…
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