Category: Academic Features
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Debunking the myths of Open Access
Myth: Open Access journals are not peer-reviewed. Reality: Most OA journals conduct peer-review, just like their subscription brethren. An inspection of the website of a journal helps you tell if the journal is doing quality work. How many articles have they published, are those articles found in curated databases such as Scopus or Pubmed (NB: Google…
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Mendeley is evolving!
From our founding, we have been working to help researchers save time whilst writing and organizing their documents. Now Mendeley is expanding our role to help researchers with two other important aspects of their professional life: promoting and showcasing their work, as well as understanding and evaluating the impact of their work. In the coming…
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New Horizons: From research papers to Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons mission is expected to reach its primary target, Pluto, on July 14th 2015! Mendeley was invited to NASA HQ to witness the close approach of Pluto on the day of this historic encounter. To mark this amazing occasion and share our excitement, Paul Tavner at Mendeley has written a report – Examining the…
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The INQUA Project is bringing researchers together – across disciplines, across Europe.
The research environment is changing rapidly, with an ever increasing focus on interdisciplinary collaborations. Often this means collaborators are in different countries, which further complicates the process of team work and communication. Today’s guest blog post is from Dr Erick Robinson (Ghent University, Belgium), who is part of the INQUA Project 1404. The primary aim of this project…
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Get Discovered – Your New Mendeley Profile!
As you may have noticed by now, our developers have been working hard to redesign profile pages to give you a fresh new professional public face. We’ve added an interactive completion widget to make completing your profile easy, which will help you connect and build your research network. Adding your photo, research interests and institution…
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