Category: design research tools
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Mendeley labs project turns heads at Webscience 2013
Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project [http://labs.mendeley.com], has been nominated for best poster by conference participants at Web Science 2013 [http://websci13.org]. Head Start is intended to facilitate and improve the process of literature search. The visualization aims at providing an overview of an academic field, based on Mendeley data. Head Start, a Mendeley Labs project,…
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Mendeley handles 100 million calls for Open Science, per month
Imagine the rich ecosystem of third-party Facebook and Twitter apps, now emerging in the domain of science. More than 240 applications for research collaboration, measurement, visualization, semantic markup, and discovery – all of which have been developed in the past year – receive a constant flow of data from Mendeley. Today, Mendeley announced that the…
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Making Openness Work: An interview with Barry Bunin of Collaborative Drug Discovery
I recently had the chance to sit down with Barry Bunin to talk about his new drug discovery platform, Collaborative Drug Discovery. As you may guess from the title, he’s taking a novel approach to drug discovery. Modern drug discovery faces huge challenges due to the economic inefficiency of the process where hundreds of millions…
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Leading universities adopt Mendeley data to accelerate research analytics by 3 years
This week, leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia signed up to Mendeley’s new data dashboard, the Mendeley Institutional Edition. The dashboard analyses their research activity and impact on the global research community in real time – down from the 3-5 year time lag of the “Impact Factor”, the current gold standard for…
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Papers aren't just for people
There is a fundamental shift happening now in how research is conducted and it is affecting all fields of academic endeavor. Some fields have already shifted and some are just beginning to, but the shift has a common cause, and that cause is the growing amount of research output. At a certain point, the amount…
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