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Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it! William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com Mendeley and Open Science
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“The state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.”
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Connecting Scholars in the Cloud Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t. Databases have incomplete metadata, incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights. Capture the latent info in their process!
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...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent: Install Mendeley Desktop
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What is Mendeley? Mendeley Web: A research catalog of 80M documents from 1M researchers, 80K collaborative groups. Mendeley Desktop: A bit of software that organizes PDFs and helps you write papers.
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Based in London & New York Mendeley are researchers, graduates and software developers from......backed by co-founders and former executives of: Supported by:
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Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time
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Article statistics provide specific readership information & recommend related papers
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Apps are being developed that mash up Mendeley data with: Chemical compounds Locations Alzheimer’s research Grant funding Twitter streams Get Started @ dev.mendeley.com
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ReaderMeter.org
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JISC DURA Project http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com
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Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database
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www.mendeley.com william.gunn@mendeley.com
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