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1 Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it! William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com Mendeley and Open Science

2 “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.”

3 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!

4 ...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent: Install Mendeley Desktop

5 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.

6 Based in London & New York Mendeley are researchers, graduates and software developers from......backed by co-founders and former executives of: Supported by:

7 Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

8 Article statistics provide specific readership information & recommend related papers

9 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

10 ReaderMeter.org

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12 JISC DURA Project http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com

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15 Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database

16 www.mendeley.com william.gunn@mendeley.com


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