Month: October 2014
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Mendeley Debates At Cambridge : Do We Need A ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ ?
By: Gabriel Hughes, VP Web Analytics at Elsevier Images © Chris Williamson, courtesy of the Cambridge Union Society Should we have the right to require websites to ‘forget’ or ‘delete’ stories and posts about us which we find embarrassing or just don’t want other people to see? Should people be able to force search engines to…
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Meet the Analytics Team!
While our Data Science team makes a big deal out of big data, they aren’t the only ones digging their hands in the data here at Mendeley. Aside of setting and monitoring company KPIs and writing some critical reports, the Mendeley Analytics team primarily focuses on user behaviour. That means, they study how and why…
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Congratulations October Advisor of the Month — Yoilán Fimia León!
Congratulations and thank you to Yoilán Fimia León! Yoilán, who is involved with higher education, often teaches Mendeley at his institute, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, in Cuba. Recently, he designed a one-credit academic course on Mendeley and reference management, which already has full classes this fall. “My university noted that in one…
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Mendeley at JCDL 2014
The Mendeley Data Science team have been busy attending some important events around the world. One of them has been JCDL 2014, the most prominent conference in the Digital Libraries arena. The conference looks at many of the problems we’re tackling at the moment, such as article recommendations and the best ways of automatically extracting…
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Discussing the Future of Recommender Systems at RecSys2014
Maya and Kris from the Mendeley Data Science team have just returned from RecSys2014, the most important conference in the Recommender System world. RecSys is remarkable in that it attracts an equal number of participants from industry and academia, many of whom are at the forefront of innovation in their fields. The team had a…
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