Author: Alice Bonasio
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Science Startups meet at Le Web 2014
Since becoming Elsevier’s VP of Strategy, Mendeley Co-founder and CEO Victor Henning has been up to a lot of exciting stuff. Here he tells us a bit about his latest project, Axon, which is stirring things up by bringing together the best and brightest new startups in the fields of Science and Research at Le…
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Is Crowdfunding a Good Option for Your Research?
By: Nick Dragojlovic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia Picture this… It’s 8am. You take your first sip of coffee, ready to start your day. You check your email and… You find out your latest grant application didn’t get funded. Bummer. You give it a couple of days to get over the…
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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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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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