Category: academic life
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Join Mendeley in OA Week!
This week marked the beginning of the annual Open Access Week 2010 event, running from Oct 18th-Oct 24. Phil Bourne calls on scholars to think about how technology can enhance research, Mendeley has an Open Access Group, and the Right to Research Coalition has a student webcast on Thursday the 21st at 4 pm PDT.
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Mendeley a perfect fit with the Global Honors College
At Mendeley, we’re continually impressed by the uses people find for our service, so we occasionally showcase some of these stories that demonstrate why Mendeley is such a powerful tool. In this post, meet Professor Griffin along with Ashlinn Quinn and a team from Columbia University who are involved with the Global Honors College and…
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Lord Martin Rees, Evan Harris, and Aleks Krotoski confirmed as keynote speakers at Science Online London 2010
We are honoured to announce that our Keynote Speakers for Science Online London 2010 are Lord Martin Rees, Evan Harris and Aleks Krotoski. Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s preeminent cosmologists, Lord Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Trinity College, Cambridge – in…
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Science Online London 2010 call for sponsors
Are you working for a company or institution in the field of science, or do you want to reach the thought leaders in science online? We are looking for sponsorship partners for our Science Online London 2010 conference on 3-4 September (Fri/Sat) at the British Library in St Pancras, London. Last year, our sponsors included…
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BBC World Service features Mendeley, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Google Wave
The current edition of the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet has a couple of nice interviews with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Cameron Neylon on Google Wave, and me talking about Mendeley. My segment starts at 7:54mins – I haven’t listened to it because, as I explained earlier, watching/listening to myself makes me cringe like the…
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