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!

Top Features announced at #MDOD15

Mendeley Data
The 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
There 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.

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