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A presentation to the Salk Institute about Mendeley's vision for transforming research.
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www.mendeley.com
A London-based team of 26 researchers and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:
Supported by:
We are solving two productivity problems inindividual and collaborative scientific
research.
read, retain, & cite hundreds of papers,
1) Every researcher needs to
but it’s mostly manual work.
Mendeley automates desktop document
management.
2) Research is inherently social
(“Standing on the shoulders of giants”), but the tools and data aren’t.
2) Research is inherently social
(“Standing on the shoulders of giants”), but the tools and data aren’t.
Mendeley turns research documents into social objects in
the cloud.
We’re building a crowdsourced research database
with a unique layer of social & real-time usage stats.
works like this:
1) Install “Audioscrobbler”
2) Listen to music
3) Last.fm builds your music profile... and the world‘s biggest open music database
music librariesartists
songs
genres
research librariesresearchers
papers
disciplines
Last.fmMendeley
2) Read & write papers
1) Install Mendeley Desktop
3) Mendeley aggregates research data in the cloud
Mendeley works like this:
27m research papers (and >500m references) uploaded:
After 15 months in public beta (v0.9):
Top 15 institutions using Mendeley: University of Cambridge
Stanford University MIT
Imperial College LondonHarvard University
University College LondonUniversity of Oxford
University of Edinburgh University of Michigan
Max Planck SocietyUC Berkeley
Cornell UniversityPrinceton University
University of WisconsinColumbia University
After 15 months in public beta (v0.9):
Scientific careersJobs Grant Funding
Tenure Prestige
The “Impact Factor“
Why real-time stats matter to science
PLoS ONE ranked
as 5th most read biological sciences journal on Mendeley
Mendeley Real-Time Stats:
Mendeley Real-Time Stats:
Dr. Peter Binfield,
Editor of PLoS ONE:
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
Select relation:
supportsrefutescomplementsuses same method...
Result:A human-curated,
constantly evolving semantic article
database
Search/Recommendations
Reference/PDF
Management
Collaboration
Writing/Bibliographies
How Mendeley will support the workflow:
www.mendeley.com