Author: Jason Hoyt
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5 steps to disrupt AND save academia. Hint: use startup investors
The result of too many PhDs has meant a surplus of academics doing multiple post-doc tours of duty, lower wages, and a waste of tax payer money. All would be fine if there were enough jobs outside of academia to support those researchers in industry and government, but there are not. Let’s clarify that, there…
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Academic SEO – Market (And Publish) or Perish
We held another Mendeley Open Office on Friday, November 26, 2010. Trying something new, we are now doing talks. And as promised, here is the talk I gave on increasing the visibility of your research. I’ve added speech bubbles to the slides to give some of them more context in case you were not here…
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Dear researcher, which side of history will you be on?
Recently I was sitting at café Tryst in Washington D.C. along with Mendeley’s co-founders and a coffee house full of hipsters, Georgetown students, tourists, and a few politicos. In retrospect, perhaps this was the only setting possible to be discussing the future of research and our small part in it. We were surrounded by the…
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Mendeley API – now public, now sexy?
Today we announce that the API is now open to anyone wishing to create fantastic tools with data that can change the world. This past April we released a beta version of the Mendeley API and invited a few developers to start building applications on top of all of the rich data found here. (See…
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