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Mendeley as a component in the open science infrastructureDr. Victor HenningCo-Founder & CEOMendeley

Back in 2008:

Jan Paul Victor

...funded by founders/execs of:

...and research grants from:

“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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Mendeley extracts research data..

..and aggregates research data in the cloud

Mendeley extracts research data..

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JISC DURA Project

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Mendeley Open API

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