It’s time we changed how research is done

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1. It’s time we changed how research is done William Gunn,

   Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach twitter: @mrgunn

2. [1] Online experimental peer review of the “Arsenic Life” paper

   that recently appeared in Science: http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated- bacteria-nasas.html [2] Open Science is a Research Accelerator, M. Woelfle, P. Olliaro and M. H. Todd, Nature Chemistry 2011, 3, 745-748. http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v3/n10/full/nchem.1149.html PLoS ONE ALM API: http://api.plos.org/alm/examples/ Mendeley’s API: http://dev.mendeley.com Biocurious: http://biocurious.org/

3. “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.“

4. Tools of scientific discovery Clean energy Clean water Sustainable food

   supplies Pandemic diseases Terrorist violence Climate change US National Academies “Grand Challenges”: Artificial Intelligence

5. ..helps researchers work smarter ..makes science more collaborative and transparent

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6. It’s Open! http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/

7. Mendeley helps researchers work smarter

8. Mendeley extracts research data.. Install Mendeley Desktop Mendeley helps researchers

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9. ..and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research

   data.. Mendeley helps researchers work smarter

10. By doing this, Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent:

11. 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley! 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

12. Real-time data on 30m research papers: Last year...

13. Real-time data on 29m research papers: Thomson Reuters’ Web of

    Knowledge Last year...

14. •Over 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley •Over 120M papers have

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15. Mashups with data on: Chemical compounds Locations Alzheimer’s research Grant

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16. Scientists Librarians Device Manufacturers?

17. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same data ... Human-curated,

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18. ReaderMeter.org

19. REPUTATION METRICS

20. None

21. “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.“

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