Mendeley Blog

Support free access to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. #OAMonday

William — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:40:54 +0000

At Mendeley, we believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. We have worked with colleagues in the library, publishing, research, student, university, epatient, and advocacy communities to develop tools and promote policies that will make research more efficient so that we can address the great challenges of our time. The highly successful Public Access Policy of the US National Institutes of Health proves that opening access can be done without disrupting the research process. Here's an opportunity to get guaranteed legislative action on open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research. Access is a global issue, so you don't have to be a US resident to sign, you just need an email address: Sign the petition here and please share with your colleagues.

Four perspectives on communicating your research, and then one more. #EB2012

William — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:43:39 +0000

I recently had an opportunity to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego. The Experimental Biology comprises 7 scientific societies who come together to have one (HUGE!) meeting once a year. There was tons of interesting science reported, from the science of Yogic breathing to the effects of fructose on the body, but most relevant to the Mendeley community as a whole was the panel discussion on communicating your science. The panel included a Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, Joe Palca from NPR's Science Friday, Megan Palmer from SynBERC, and Cara Santa Maria from the Huffington Post. This was a diverse panel and got quite exciting towards the end.

How-to series: How to merge contiguous citations with word plugin [part 9 of 12]

Ricardo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:22:29 +0000

One of the great built-in features in Mendeley is without a doubt the citation plugin for your word processor of choice. We currently support most of popular word processors such as MS word (Mac and Windows), OpenOffice, Neo Office, and Libre Office. We're continuously working to improve the efficiency and general user interface of this plugin because we feel it is an important component within Mendeley Desktop and your overall research workflow.

[UPDATED] Librarians and Info Sci Professionals! Join our intro session on Mendeley on Tuesday May 1st at 2 PM EDT – See a demo of the Mendeley Institutional Edition

William — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:58:41 +0000

Calling all librarians and information science professionals! Come learn about how researchers at your institution are using Mendeley and how you can use it to help patrons find what they’re looking for faster. This session is appropriate for folks with no prior experience, but we'll also go in depth in some areas and there will be plenty of time for questions, so feel free to join just for Q&A if you like. Please download and install Mendeley before the session so if you have any questions, you'll be able to ask them during the event. We’ll discuss topics such as:

How-to series: How to export your annotations (alone or with your PDF) [part 8 of 12]

Ricardo — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:49:59 +0000

In the eighth entry to our How-to series, we look at the built-in PDF viewer within Mendeley Desktop. We (and many others) think that Mendeley is a great tool to organize your research documents. It's also a great application to allow you to read, annotate and highlight your PDFs too! The built-in PDF viewer allows multiple open documents, highlighting, post-it-like note taking and more.

Transforming Scholarly Search with Mendeley: Your help needed!

William — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:41:49 +0000

Changing how research is done is a very big task, and we can't do it alone. We're particularly appreciative of our development partners who are working with us to chip away at the problems hindering research efficiency today. One problem is sifting through the volume of search results to find the most important and timely results. Jason Priem of Total Impact is working on this problem at the School for Information Science at the University of North Carolina. He and his colleagues are doing a study to determine if scholarly search can be improved by personalizing search results based on the previous reading history of the scholar -- that's where you come in. If you're willing to share your academic search and paper reading history to improve science, sign up for his study!

How-to series: How to keep references and documents unpublished (out of catalog) [part 7 of 12]

Ricardo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:48:03 +0000

As you probably know that, whenever you add a document to your Mendeley library, the document details for that entry are aggregated into our Mendeley databases so as to allow you to easily synchronize your library across multiple platforms. These aggregated data are also used to generate our extensive and multidisciplinary research catalog that is continually growing, fueled by the ongoing uploading of references to your (and everyone else') library.

How-to series: How to add supplementary data to references [part 6 of 12]

Ricardo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:24:43 +0000

There are nearly a dozen different ways to add references to your Mendeley library. Reference entries can have a file associated with them or not. In other words, your entries can be just document details or also contain the respective PDF, Word, PPT or other document format.

How-to series: How to copy & paste formatted citations anywhere (LaTeX too!) [part 5 of 12]

Ricardo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:49:41 +0000

Have you ever had to quickly send a reference to someone by email or instant message (IM)? How about send a list of references at once? This can be quite a task if you have to open each PDF, copy the title, author, journal, year, etc. And format them in an email or IM reply. For these cases, and anywhere you'd like to rapidly copy and paste one or multiple references, Mendeley Desktop has got you covered.

How-to series: How to check for duplicate entries and merging [part 4 of 12]

Ricardo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:00:50 +0000

As your reference library grows, it can happen that you add the same research article to your library more than once. Sometimes you'll have a preprint and the final published example added. In general, Mendeley does its best to avoid having duplicate entries in your library and will tend to merge entries when they have the exact same metadata. However, every now and then some research articles make it in twice with minor differences between them that Mendeley Desktop can't detect immediately. For these cases, you can go ahead and use the deduplication tool.