Tag: copyright
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Mendeley Brainstorm: Open Data – The Wave of the Future?
“Pirate Politics” are on the march. The Pirate Party of Iceland tripled their representation in the October election. Many organisations, including the Mozilla Foundation, are clamouring for copyright reform to allow more data sharing. Is Open Data the wave of the future? What are the downsides? We are looking for the most well thought out…
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Updated (and hopefully easier-to-understand) Terms of Use
We wanted to let you know that we’ve made a few changes to the Mendeley Terms of Use. A researcher’s life involves enough complicated papers, so we thought it’d be nice to make these ToU a bit shorter and easier to read. We had lots of user feedback saying that our old Terms of Use…
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Papers aren't just for people
There is a fundamental shift happening now in how research is conducted and it is affecting all fields of academic endeavor. Some fields have already shifted and some are just beginning to, but the shift has a common cause, and that cause is the growing amount of research output. At a certain point, the amount…
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Guest post: Jan Velterop – Putting the public back in publication.
There’s a great discussion that’s been going on over the past couple weeks on the LIBLICENSE-L mailing list. I particularly liked what one of the participants, Jan Velterop (CEO, Acqknowledge) had to say, so I asked him if he would like to contribute a guest post and he graciously agreed.
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