Author: drgunn
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Vote for Mendeley as best European startup in the London Web Summit
The London Web Summit is doing something a little different this year. Instead of having a panel of presumed experts judge sites and hand out awards, they’re opening up the process to everyone. Here’s your chance to tell the world that you value companies that are doing something truly useful for the world, as opposed…
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Mendeley now available in Hojoki!
At Mendeley, we’re all about easy collaboration in the cloud, so of course we’re delighted that Hojoki has added us as an activity source. Hojoki lets you see all the activity from all your cloud apps in one shared stream, and share filtered subsets of those activities with colleagues & co-workers. It’s a great way…
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Citing research is about to get a whole lot easier.
The most laborious part of any research paper for me, and probably for many of you, is making sure that the references are formatted in the proper style. Is the title supposed to be in italics? Do I need a period or a comma here? It has always seemed like exactly the kind of thing…
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On sharing research and the value of peer-review: Mendeley's response to #SOPA and the Research Works Act.
UPDATE: The RFIs have now been posted and there’s a petition opposing the RWA on whitehouse.gov. The US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently issued a Request for Information on their existing policy requiring some federally-funded work to be submitted to Pubmed Central, where it’s freely accessible to the public. We were…
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Announcing the Mendeley Institutional Edition – powered by Swets
The new year brings some big news! We’ve partnered with Swets, a subscription management company, to create the Mendeley Institutional Edition. This tool will allow librarians and institutions to connect their collection directly to researchers, aid collaboration among students, professors, and colleagues, and see the impact of the institution’s research output. Within their institutional profile,…
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