Month: March 2015
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Meet the Newsflo Team
At the beginning of this year, Elsevier acquired Newsflo, a unique media monitoring tool to allow academics to get additional “impact” metrics, in additional to the traditional citation metrics, on your Mendeley profiles. Since then, co-founders Freddie Witherden and Ben Kaube have moved into the Mendeley offices, with all our glory of unlimited coffee and…
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Let’s talk about science – Researchers’ Choice Award for science communication
Albert Einstein once famously claimed that “you don’t really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” Living this ethos, a new breed of fresh-faced, tech-savvy researchers are on a mission to break down the barriers and bring science to the masses. Communication is forming a bigger part of the role of researchers,…
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Congratulations to our March Advisor of the Month – Huiqin Gao
Many congratulations and thanks to Huiqin Gao, our March Advisor of the Month. Huiqin obtained her Bachelor’s degree at School of Information Management at Wuhan University (China), and is now a Master’s candidate majoring in Information Science in the same school. As well as studying, Huiqin is also the President of the Information Literacy Association where she…
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Mendeley for Android – Launching in June!
It’s finally happening. This June (three short months from now) we will be launching the first version of Mendeley for Android! We’ve done everything we can to ensure that we’ve built an app that sets a new standard for quality in the world of Android reference management apps. Features Read, highlight & annotate PDFs from anywhere Sync annotations & documents across all…
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Watch Buzz Aldrin's upcoming talk, courtesy of Mendeley
Mendeley is really excited to be sponsoring another space-themed event at the Cambridge Union Society. Following last month’s debate, which discussed whether space exploration was worth the cost, this Saturday (March 14th) we are proudly sponsoring a talk by the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin! The event will start at 13:00 GMT and…
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