Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!

William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach @mrgunn

Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...

...backed by co-founders and former executives of:

Supported by:

“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.”

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!

...and aggregates research data in the cloud

Mendeley extracts research data…

Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent:

Install Mendeley Desktop

Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

Article statistics show impact & recommend papers

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

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REPUTATION METRICS

•1,000,000 people using Mendeley

•120M papers uploaded

•1000 API keys to developers

Today…

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

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Result: A human-curated,

constantly evolving semantic article database

www.mendeley.com

william.gunn@mendeley.com