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Crowdsourcing Research: Mendeley's Role in the Open Science InfrastructureDr. Victor HenningCo-Founder & CEOMendeley
“All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now –curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer„s.
But a lot of 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.“
sharedunlocked
knowledge
Back in 2008:
Jan Paul Victor
Mendeley extracts research data..
..and aggregates research data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data..
So let‟s take a look!
And it‟s all free!
145 million academic/corporate/govt researchers, students, engineers, policy makers, consultants etc.
Individual premium accounts
145 million academic/corporate/govt researchers, students, engineers, policy makers, consultants etc.
Individual premium accounts
Institutional/enterprise
version
Research data/analytics
products
Launching a joint productfor libraries in January 2012
145 million academic/corporate/govt researchers, students, engineers, policy makers, consultants etc.
Individual premium accounts
Institutional/enterprise
version
Research data/analytics
products
“iTunes” for research papers
The world‟s largest research collaboration platform with 1,300,000 users; the 15 largest userbases:
University of Cambridge MITStanford UniversityImperial College LondonUniversity of MichiganUniversity of OxfordHarvard UniversityUniversity College LondonCornell UniversityUniversity of WashingtonColumbia UniversitySao Paulo University University of California at BerkeleyUniversity of Toronto University of Edinburgh
Network of 850 “Mendeley Advisors” on
campuses around the world:
The world‟s largest research database with 130 million user-uploaded documents:
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For comparison:
40m: Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge; Elsevier SciVerse / Scopus
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The world‟s largest research database with 130 million user-uploaded documents:
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Interdisciplinaryuser demographics
User-generated tags
Related research recommendations
Real-time reading stats
Documents
Interdisciplinaryuser demographics
User-generated tags
Related research recommendations
Real-time reading stats
Documents
Mendeley Open API
http://dev.mendeley.com
JISC DURA Project http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com
$5,000 for the runner-up
Mendeley/PLoS Binary Battle
Mendeley Open API
$10,001 for the best app
PLoS API
$1,000 for the best mashup
Tim O‟Reilly
Werner Vogels
James Powell
JuanEnriquez
JohnWilbanks
TiNYARM = This is Not Yet Another Reference Manager
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supportsrefutescomplementsuses same method...
Mendeley is crowdsourcingsemantic annotations to become the “global brain of science”.
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
