Connecting researchers with
information - and unlocking it!
William Gunn
Head of Academic Outreach
[email protected]
@mrgunn
Mendeley and Linked Open Data
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Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates
and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:
Supported by:
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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
• Incompatible licenses prevent remixing
and sharing necessary for new insights.
• Research is a social activity, but the tools
and the data aren’t.
• 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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University of Cambridge
Stanford University
MIT
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
Harvard University
University of Michigan
University College London
University of California at Berkeley
Sao Paulo University
University of Edinburgh
Cornell University
Princeton University
RWTH Aachen
Columbia University
Max Planck Society
University of Cologne
Yale University
University of Wisconsin
University of Florida
280 million documents from 2 million users
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Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time
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Activities are aggregated around rich profile data
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JISC DURA Project
http://www.symplectic.co.uk/
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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