Author: drgunn
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Publishing Open Access has its benefits: You Can Now Search Mendeley Web for #OA content
We didn’t quite make it in time for OA week, but I hope we’ll be forgiven, because we have an AWESOME feature that we just quietly launched. It’s now possible to filter the 27 million canonical documents in the Mendeley research catalog for articles published in Open Access journals.
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Mendeley is now more social: featuring collaborative groups, in-app tutorial, & updated citation styles.
This week we have released a new version of Mendeley with some major updates. The major new feature in Mendeley 0.9.8.1 is public collaborative groups. What are groups? Groups are a simple way for you to collaborate with your colleagues to create a shared collection of documents. Groups allow members to put together a list…
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Meet Tim Keitt – Integrative Biologist and Mendeley Power User
During a recent trip to Texas for the Non-hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells meeting, I took a little side trip to the University of Texas at Austin to meet one of Mendeley’s power users. We talked about his research, new projects he is working on and how Mendeley helps him collaborate with his colleagues in…
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From Climax Control Gel to German Shepherd Dogs: The Top 5 Misspellings of Mendeley
Back during the conceptual phase of the service, Jan, Paul, and Victor were thinking about what to call their product. The working name at the time was “Literacula”, because it sucked the metadata right out of PDFs. While this was a descriptive name, it was eventually decided that it was far too silly. No one…
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