Category: highlighting research
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Worldwide Research Collaboration Mapped Out
Academia has a reputation for being a bit of a closed world, a walled garden of knowledge where secrets are jealously guarded. But the truth is that collaboration is at the very heart of research and scientific discovery, and that for science to advance, researchers need to get together, compare notes, disagree, and have their…
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Here's one solution for the reproducibility crisis in scientific research.
We talk a lot about open access here, but one thing we haven’t delved into as much as we could is the question of the quality of the research. We have plenty of data on the attention the world’s academics are paying to research outputs (watch this space for more on this) but we haven’t…
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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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Your chance to decide the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle winner
We now have our Top 10+1 Binary Battle apps. We are sending those on to our panel of expert judges: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO), John Wilbanks (VP for Science at Creative Commons), James Powell (Thomson Reuters CTO), Juan Enriquez (Managing Directo of Excel Venture Management), and Tim O’Reilly (Founder of O’Reilly Media). Now though is…
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The Top 10+1 apps in the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle!
The results are in! Mendeley and PLoS staff both voted on which apps could have the greatest impact on science. We actually had a tie and decided to keep the binary going and include 11 apps to make it a Top 10+1. These apps will now be presented to our worthy judges to determine the overall…
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