Some of you probably know about this project….
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“Mendeley offers a secure online database for scientists, academics and researchers to store their research papers in the ‘cloud’, making it easier to share those documents with their peers but there’s an important ’social’ element too (if that’s the right word).”
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“[UK] London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm of research”, has announced that it’s reached something of a milestone today – claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded to the site in less than a year since its launch. Furthermore, the online database is doubling in size every 10 weeks, says the company.”
http://tinyurl.com/y9oehxb
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sounds kind of like a giant IR + Facebook….
Thanks for the mention, Robin. Mendeley is in fact in talks with institutions regarding interfacing with their repositories.
If you've any follow-up questions, please let me know.