Category: Open Day

Mendeley and Beyond – Here's what happened at #MDOD15

Sarah E Hoey

After an amazing Mendeley and Beyond, Open Day 2015, we’ve just about managed to re-collect our thoughts and tell you how it went… It was wonderful! We really enjoyed meeting so many of our Advisors, Users, Librarians, Usability Testers, Partners and colleagues. A big thank you to everyone who joined us in our new home in AlphaBeta – we look forward to seeing you again next year!

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Top Features announced at #MDOD15

Mendeley Data
22670784627_51ff24ff4b_kThe new Mendeley Data repository is designed to help you do more with the data that comes out of your research, allowing you to publish your data, share it, and make it available for other researchers. This data platform allows researchers to upload the raw data from their research, where it is give it a unique identifier that makes that data citable. The aim is to move beyond the tradition research article and enable researchers to show their workings, and most importantly get credit for that.

Heliyon Submission Channel
Mendeley is launching the first journal on it’s new submission channel. “Heliyon is the perfect journal to introduce this new pillar of Mendeley. It’s innovative in every sense, cross-discipline and, most importantly, open access” says Paul Foeckler, Co-founder and Integration Director of Mendeley. Our aim is to help people publish in a seamless way connecting relevant stages of their workflow and accelerate the process of making and disseminating new discoveries.

Mendeley Goes Social
22696870339_1a52e5375b_kThere have been several development in Mendeley recently. You may have noticed that your profile now features enhanced statistics information to provides any published author with an aggregated view on the performance of their articles. Additionally, you’ll be able to import your publications from Scopus, which has the highest-quality source of data on published articles, and for articles published on ScienceDirect we additionally provide information on views, search terms used to get to your article, map of where your readership comes from, and provides links to various source data providers.

Not only that (why stop there?!), you’ll be getting improved article suggestions, which will provide four different recommendation algorithms to support different scientific needs, which will be regularly recalculated and tailored, ensuring that there is always something new for you to discover.

 

But that’s not all that happened!

Breakout sessions
In the afternoon, we held some smaller group breakout session where attendees had the opportunity to find out more and give there feedback about Mendeley data, BibTeX/LaTex, Data Science, the Mendeley API and   – all the while being guided by some New Orleans-inspired Second liners.

Eye Art
Our visitors also had the chance to have images their eyes turned in to some wonderful abstract art with some close up Eye Photography

Legendary Mendeley Open Day After-Party
The amazing Jerome introduced us to his world of swing, right in the heart of Mendeley HQ – we danced, we sang, and we’re mesmerized as Jerome showed of his Charleston grooves.

You can catch up on Tweets through our Storify or see highlights on our Flickr

Mendeley and Beyond – Open Day 2015

Sarah E Hoey

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We’re just three weeks away from our 2015 Mendeley Open Day – Mendeley and Beyond #MDOD15 – and this year we’re excited to be hosting the Open Day at our new headquarters in the AlphaBeta building, London, UK. If you’ve already registered, share it with your network and let us know your excitement too.

“Mendeley and Beyond” will for a day of fun, innovation and discovery in the field of research, science and technology. It is also an opportunity for us to connect with our community, talk to the people who use Mendeley, and give you the chance to meet the people behind the product.

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Mendeley is evolving, and this year’s event will be looking at where we are, and where we’re going. We’ll be telling you about the vision for Mendeley and beyond, and revealing two product releases! You’ll also have the chance to find out about our API, Data Science developments, the progress of Mendeley Data, as well as being able to have your say in the future of Mendeley by giving us feedback on developments in progress.

During the day there’ll be some live and interactive entertainment (we’ll keep this as a surprise!), and this will be followed by the legendary Mendeley drinks social.

If you’re able to join us in London on November 6th, you can register for your free Open Day ticket. Once you’ve registered, please take a minute to let us know if you have any dietary requirements, any questions that you would like us to address, or topics you would like to see in the agenda. We will do our best to accommodate!

So as we begin the countdown, we’re looking forward to welcoming you at our new Mendeley HQ in AlphaBeta (Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1BR).

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