Mendeley Blog

Mendelife – Meet Branden Faulls

Alice Bonasio — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:33 +0000

Branden is our VP Product, known online by the mysterious alias of “omphe”. To pronounce it, he explains, imagine being hit in the gut with a sack full of marshmallows. How long have you been with Mendeley for? Since May 2012 Where did you work before coming to Mendeley ? I was a [...]

Mythical Science

Alice Bonasio — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:45 +0000

A much talked-about book has recently raised an interesting subject: Is there science behind monsters, and our enduring fascination with them? Stories about scary mythical creatures are everywhere and have been around for as long as people have been able to tell stories and create these mythologies. Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s bite: the science of [...]

Do you know an example of open access research helping the public good? Nominate the team for a $30k ASAP award!

William — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:41:40 +0000

The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program. If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is to reward people for their efforts and also to gather compelling use cases for open access. This program has major support from publishers, funders, and the tech community and they have put up some serious prize money - $30,000 for each of three winners. The nomination period opened May 1 and runs through June 15.

Mendeley contributes 2000 citation styles to the open citation style repository at citationstyles.org

William — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:39:48 +0000

Scholars looking to publish in one of the approximately 30,000 peer reviewed scholarly journals (per Ulrich's) have a big problem on their hands. They have to prepare the text of their manuscript according to the style specified by the journal, process the images as specified by the journal, prepare the necessary disclosures, deposit datasets into the appropriate repositories, and do a host of other activities according to their field, and then every citation must be written in a specific format that is (often trivially) different for every one of the approximately 2000 publishers of peer-reviewed scholarly content. As if doing the research isn’t hard enough! Slowly, ever so slowly, technology is changing this practice.

Mendelife – Meet Rosario Garcia de Zuniga

Alice Bonasio — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:07:10 +0000

Rosario is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead here at Mendeley, and she’s been with us pretty much from the start, nearly 4 years! So we catch up with her to ask what it was like back then, what’s changed, and what makes her stick around! Do you have any nicknames? Many, but the [...]

Mendeley and Elsevier – here’s more info

Victor — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:47:57 +0000

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 [...]

Worldwide Research Collaboration Mapped Out

Alice Bonasio — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:34 +0000

Academia has a reputation for being a bit of a closed world, a walled garden of knowledge where secrets are jealously guarded. But the truth is that collaboration is at the very heart of research and scientific discovery, and that for science to advance, researchers need to get together, compare notes, disagree, and have their [...]

Good News, lots more storage for everybody!

Alice Bonasio — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:58:53 +0000

We wanted to let you know that we’ve made some changes to give our user community a better Mendeley experience. From now on all personal and Mendeley Institutional Edition accounts (apart from the ones that already have unlimited storage) will get a lot more personal library space for storing documents. Here’s how it works: [...]

Team Mendeley is joining Elsevier. Good things are about to happen!

Victor — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:01:28 +0000

Today we are excited to announce that Mendeley is joining Elsevier! You might already have heard some rumors and speculation about this in the past few weeks. We hope you’ll understand that we couldn’t address the rumors head-on until there was some actual news to share with you. Now that the union is official, we [...]

Q&A: Team Mendeley Joins Elsevier

Alice Bonasio — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:00:38 +0000

Will Mendeley still be free? Yes! There will always be a free version of Mendeley. Will Mendeley continue to develop new features? Yes – we will even become faster, as having access to Elsevier’s resources, partnerships, and reach in the academic, librarian, and professional R&D community will allow us to accelerate our development. Please head [...]