Category: Academic Features
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LabTimes: Web 2.0 for Science – A Conversation with Yours Truly
The current issue of LabTimes, a printed news magazine for the European Life Sciences, contains a 3-page conversation with yours truly, plus a boyishly handsome, yet slightly awkward glamour shot photo of me at my hectically cleaned-up beautiful desk. It’s a nice interview, with one caveat: There’s a mistake in the opening paragraph. While we…
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Upcoming Features: Improved importers and folder monitoring
We have been working on improvements to the importing of information from your existing libraries and documents into Mendeley for our next release. Highlights include: Automatic import of PDF files from selected folders: The feature most requested by our current Mendeley users is support for importing from whole folders (rather than having to select individual…
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Interface development and shadow sculptures – essentially the same thing
I think I learned something today! As a non-software engineer, I was always puzzled beyond measure when I asked our developers to change just a minor interface detail – such as, “shift this icon up a few pixels, change the color of this frame” – and was told that this would take days upon days…
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Mendeley Desktop: The About Dialogue (and the Refactor)
New About Dialogue and it’s even closable on Mac! How on earth did we get to this point? Let me tell you a story… Since my last post the Mendeley Desktop team has been very busy indeed! Our “rewrite of some of the internal Mendeley code” has turned into a rewrite of almost all the…
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Mendeley Word plugin alpha 0.1 released
The very first steps towards a plugin for Microsoft Word are done and we thought we’d give you an early preview. It’s the first alpha and has some known bugs, but most of the time it does the job. 🙂 Known issues (which will be fixed in the next releases) are: Large download filesize (14.4MB)…
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