Author: drgunn
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Mendeley's top time-saver tips for early career researchers.
So you’ve slaved away all year long, passing up pool party and barbecue invitations to feed the needs of the research beast, and you’ve finally got something to show for it. The next question is how do you get it published, where, and what do you do after that so it doesn’t end up with…
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New Release: Literature Search from within Mendeley Deskop
We’ve always had the vision of Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web working as parts of a whole, but there have been some gaps, perhaps most notably how research discovery works. For example, to search your existing collection of research, you’d use Mendeley Desktop, but to search for new research in Mendeley’s catalog, you would go…
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Wish PeerJ Charlie a Happy Birthday!
Our friends at PeerJ published their first articles on the birthday of Charles Darwin (Feb 12th) and today PeerJ has their first anniversary, so let’s wish Charlie a happy birthday. Exactly one year ago, we helped announce their launch with an interview of the co-founders Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield. Since that time, the demand…
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Mendeley labs project turns heads at Webscience 2013
Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project [http://labs.mendeley.com], has been nominated for best poster by conference participants at Web Science 2013 [http://websci13.org]. Head Start is intended to facilitate and improve the process of literature search. The visualization aims at providing an overview of an academic field, based on Mendeley data. Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project,…
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Do you know an example of open access research helping the public good? Nominate the team for a $30k ASAP award!
The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program. If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is to reward people for…
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