3. So how does search work, anyways?
• Results have to be ranked somehow
• Google’s closely guarded secret sauce is
how they rank results.
• It means millions to companies to be in
the top 3 links.
• How much does it mean to a researcher?
5. Discovery
• Finding things when you don’t know what
to search for
• Finding things without searching at all
• Finding things related conceptually
• This requires reading implicit preference
information
• collaborative filtering
7. Open Access papers are cited &
read more!
• People who otherwise wouldn’t have seen
an article can now read it & cite it!
• Readership & citations start accumulating
earlier.
• 75% of readers of Pubmed Central papers
are non-institutional
• In Mendeley’s catalog, OA papers can have
up to 10x the readership.
http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article2.html
12. Today…
•Over 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley
•Over 120M papers have been uploaded
•Over 1000 API keys have been given to
developers
13. 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley!
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14. [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
15. “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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