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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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Publishing Open Access has its benefits: You Can Now Search Mendeley Web for #OA content
We didn’t quite make it in time for OA week, but I hope we’ll be forgiven, because we have an AWESOME feature that we just quietly launched. It’s now possible to filter the 27 million canonical documents in the Mendeley research catalog for articles published in Open Access journals.
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Join Mendeley in OA Week!
This week marked the beginning of the annual Open Access Week 2010 event, running from Oct 18th-Oct 24. Phil Bourne calls on scholars to think about how technology can enhance research, Mendeley has an Open Access Group, and the Right to Research Coalition has a student webcast on Thursday the 21st at 4 pm PDT.
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Dear researcher, which side of history will you be on?
Recently I was sitting at café Tryst in Washington D.C. along with Mendeley’s co-founders and a coffee house full of hipsters, Georgetown students, tourists, and a few politicos. In retrospect, perhaps this was the only setting possible to be discussing the future of research and our small part in it. We were surrounded by the…
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Who is killing science on the Web? Publishers or Scientists?
Killing the advancement of science on the Web is killing the advancement of science as a whole. A few weeks ago I attended a panel session at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco called, “Making the Web work for science.” (Video wrap-up here) Really, the focus was on how to get scientists to put their…
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