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On the future of our Open API: feature updates and eating our own dog food
There have been a few guiding principles that have directed the progress and business strategy of Mendeley from the very beginning, and chief among these is our mission to make research more collaborative and open. We want to bridge to a more modern way of using the web for scholarly communication. We’ve been hard at…
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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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Last Call Mendeley/PLoS App Contest Sep 30th
The deadline to enter your application to the Binary Battle is September 30th, 2011. Go here for the official entry form. Hopefully you were already aware of the Binary Battle, but if not, here’s a brief rundown…. We, Mendeley, teamed up with the world’s largest Open Access publisher PLoS, to create a call for…
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What the scientific community wants computers to do for them: The results of the PLoS and Mendeley Call for Apps
A little over a week ago, PLoS and Mendeley got together to issue a “Call for Apps” to the scientific community. We have now collected some really great ideas which we’d like to pass along to the developer community. Some of the ideas are Binary Battle-ready, while others are just kinda cool, so take a…
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Tell us about your ideal science app & we'll get someone to build it.
Research is hard enough without having to deal with crappy software and programs that don’t talk to one another. Part of the problem is that many people who write great code aren’t scientists, so they don’t know what scientists need. We’d like to solve that problem, so we’ve teamed up with the Public Library of…
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