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Mendeley and Elsevier – here’s more info
The news of Mendeley joining Elsevier made some waves last week. On Twitter, with typical understatement, it was compared to the Rebel Alliance joining the Galactic Empire, to peasants posing as a human shield for Kim Jong-Un, and to Austin Powers teaming up with Dr Evil. It’s true that, when I was 13, I played through X-Wingon…
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Mendeley in Your Neighborhood! Meet Mendeley's Head of Academic Outreach on his US East Coast Tour.
William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, and Elizabeth Iorns, cofounder and CEO of Science Exchange, are giving a series of career development seminars at east coast universities over the next few weeks. See below for the dates and locations and check your local event listings for more information. Please stop by, I’d love…
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A Mendeley data mashup wins at Data In Sight hacker competition.
Two weekends ago, a group of developers and designers gathered at the Adobe offices in downtown San Francisco to work on data visualization projects taking open data sets and fusing them in creative ways to yield new insights. Datasets were provided by Infochimps and Factual and judges were brought in from some of the top…
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5 steps to disrupt AND save academia. Hint: use startup investors
The result of too many PhDs has meant a surplus of academics doing multiple post-doc tours of duty, lower wages, and a waste of tax payer money. All would be fine if there were enough jobs outside of academia to support those researchers in industry and government, but there are not. Let’s clarify that, there…
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Watch Mendeley and PLoS on the Web! Science Hour with Leo Laporte & Dr. Kiki
Update: Archive of the show can be viewed or downloaded from here http://odtv.me/2009/08/dr-kikis-science-hour-14/ This Thursday I’ll be joining the managing editor of PLoS ONE, Pete Binfield, live on Science Hour hosted by Leo Laporte and Dr. Kiki. We’ll be discussing the future of academic publishing, science on the Web, or anything else that comes up.…
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