Author: drgunn
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Mendeley contributes 2000 citation styles to the open citation style repository at citationstyles.org
Scholars looking to publish in one of the approximately 30,000 peer reviewed scholarly journals (per Ulrich’s) have a big problem on their hands. They have to prepare the text of their manuscript according to the style specified by the journal, process the images as specified by the journal, prepare the necessary disclosures, deposit datasets into…
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Is the time right for a preprint server for life science?
Academics in physics, economics, or math often think that life scientists (like myself) are weird because life science doesn’t have a preprint server. Life science is a fast-paced discipline, but there’s no place where the latest research can be found, discussed, and where the primacy of results can be established. There’s a lot of value…
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On the future of our Open API: feature updates and eating our own dog food
There have been a few guiding principles that have directed the progress and business strategy of Mendeley from the very beginning, and chief among these is our mission to make research more collaborative and open. We want to bridge to a more modern way of using the web for scholarly communication. We’ve been hard at…
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Make your citations look exactly how they should with Mendeley's visual citation style editor
We’re very happy to announce the release of the first true “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” citation style editor for open source CSL citation styles – produced in collaboration with Columbia University Libraries and supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Most academic journals insist that papers submitted to them conform to the journal’s own idiosyncratic…
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Interview with eLife, a new tech-forward #openaccess journal
I recently caught up with the very busy eLife team to ask them a few questions, along the same lines as the PeerJ interview I did earlier this year. While there are many new open access journals launching every year, we think this one is special because they’re breaking the traditional mold in some significant…
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