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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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We're approaching 100 Million document uploads! Tweet papers to win. [UPDATED]
Excitement levels are high at Mendeley this month because we’ve got several momentous milestones coming up – the release of Mendeley 1.0, crossing 1 million users, and 100 Million document uploads. While it would be really cool if we could hit all these on the same day, we can’t exactly predict when that day is,…
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PLoS joins Mendeley as co-sponsor of the Binary Battle!
The Public Library of Science, the world’s largest Open Access publisher, has joined Mendeley in co-sponsoring the Binary Battle, the contest to build the best apps that make science more open using PLoS and Mendeley’s API’s. This brings the prize money to be won up to $16,000 plus other cool gifts and the opportunity to…
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Say congrats to the Haiku contest winner, Dr. Stewart Dods!
We ran a contest for a few months asking our Mendeley Advisors to submit a haiku on their Advisor application and then taking submissions from the Mendeley community at large. We were well impressed at the level of erudition and subtlety among our community and hope everyone had as much fun with it as we…
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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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