Posts Tagged ‘mendeley’

September 22, 2010 15

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact

By in Announcements, Collaboration, Reference management, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from collaborative annotation systems, social bookmarking services and social media? should we expect major discrepancies between citation-based and readership-based impact measures? are [...]

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August 19, 2010 3

Mendeley goes open

By in e-Science, Reference management, Resources, Web 2.0

Tweet After a few months of private testing, Mendeley announced the public release of their open API. This will allow developers and researchers to build applications and data analysis on top of a massive database of human-annotated scientific references. We are excited to see our friends at Mendeley push forward on the open science front [...]

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August 11, 2010 2

Science Online London 2010

By in Collaboration, Conferences, e-Science, Talks

Tweet There is only a bunch of tickets left for one of the most exciting annual events in the area of ICT for science. Hosted by Mendeley, Nature and the British Library, the second edition of Science Online London (3-4 September 2010) promises to bring together hackers, academics, publishers and startups in the field of [...]

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June 22, 2009 23

The killer feature that a reference management tool must have: be portable in plain text

By in Reference management, Resources, Software, Writing

Tweet Frankly, there are too many reference managers today. This  is counterproductive because we all need to spend time checking the newcomers, just in case there’s a new feature that we were missing. Most reference managers graft themselves to word or to openOffice. For example, Mendeley, and zotero both use internal reference functionality in word. [...]

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June 4, 2009 0

Science Online London 2009

By in Conferences, e-Science, Social Media, Socializing, Web 2.0

Tweet If you are interested in scientific blogging and collaborative tools for research and happen to be in the UK this summer, here’s an event not to be missed: Science Online London 2009 will explore the latest trends in science online. How is the Web affecting the work of researchers, science communicators, journalists, librarians, educators, [...]

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