mendeley vision presentation salk institute 2010 06-15 wg

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