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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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Build an app with Mendeley data, make research more open, win $10,001!
We at Mendeley have now built the world’s largest open research catalog, containing over 70 million documents. This is no small feat, considering we’ve only been at it for about 2 years, and we couldn’t have done it without you (nearly a million of you!) In fact, the reason the catalog is open and freely…
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Get Excited and Make Things: Mendeley is a research platform
The Mendeley API has been public since August and we now have hundreds of developers working on all sorts of cool projects using the unique social research data available through the Open API. There are plugins for Wordpress and Drupal, data mashups like Readermeter, a mobile app for Android(coming soon), and there’s even a basic…
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