Category: academic life
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Mendeley has two million users! To celebrate, we're releasing the Global Research Report
As of today, Mendeley has two million users! To mark the occasion, we have published the Global Research Report – a unique analysis of two million scholars’ research activity in relation to economic indicators and research productivity. The Global Research Report draws on the unique usage statistics of Mendeley’s desktop- and cloud-based research collaboration platform, which…
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Four perspectives on communicating your research, and then one more. #EB2012
I recently had an opportunity to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego. The Experimental Biology comprises 7 scientific societies who come together to have one (HUGE!) meeting once a year. There was tons of interesting science reported, from the science of Yogic breathing to the effects of fructose on the body, but most…
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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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Why We Publish
It isn’t to obtain tenure. And it isn’t for money. Although to some, that is what publishing has become. The rationale for why we publish is (should be) to communicate results to as great an audience as possible and advance our understanding of the world around us. At Mendeley, we started to wonder how we…
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Research Gone Social: Leveraging the Web to Advance Scientific Discovery #smwresearch
Join Mendeley at the Google NY headquarters on Tuesday, February 8th at 3-5pm for “Research Gone Social: Leveraging the Web to Advance Scientific Discovery”, a distributed global event featuring more than 7,500 attendees across 200 events. Please RSVP at http://mnd.ly/mendeleysocialmediaweek and please include the #smwresearch #smw11 #smwnyc hashtag for posts, tweets, pictures, etc.
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