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Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #37 | Health Blogs Observatory — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:28:55 +0000

[...] the carers in developing countries the power of evidence either at no cost or greatly reduced costs Labmeeting – a social bookmarking site to manage and share journal articles TrialX – free service to enable [...]

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MedLib’s Round, First Edition « Laika’s MedLibLog — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:06:06 +0000

[...] Papers). Dr. Shock didn’t make up his mind yet whether he prefers Mendeley or Labmeeting (described in another post) as an online library. But offline he uses Sente, which he finds absolutely perfect. A chimera [...]

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:10:07 +0000

Hi Jan – sorry for the belated comment (I was travelling). As for your question: We’re working on it! See http://feedback.mendeley.com/pages/general/suggestions/80946-automatically-find-pdfs-link-them-to-imported-metadata

By: Jan Martens

Jan Martens — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:41:51 +0000

I will also look into both options. In Endnote I coupled a lot of pdf’s to the references. I am wondering whether this will be automatically used in the software. Otherwise I have to do it all over again.

By: Anne Marie Cunningham

Anne Marie Cunningham — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:52:07 +0000

both these options look good. I’ll be looking into them:)

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:15:10 +0000

Thanks for the information, kind regards Dr Shock

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:54:26 +0000

For the time being, yes – it requires a software installation. We made this decision when we started to develop Mendeley, as we felt that this was less of a barrier to entry than having to upload hundreds or thousands of PDFs to a website. It also meant that you could work with it offline (e.g. on a plane).

The idea is to take the huge PDF collection that researchers have already stored on their computers and turn it into a structured, searchable and citeable database with minimal effort. In the long run, we want to aggregate this data into a huge semantic database built on collaborative filtering principles – here’s a brief video explaining our long-term vision: http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2008/07/an-excellent-euroscience-adventure-part-ii/

If you decide to try it, please let us know what you think: http://feedback.mendeley.com

Thanks,
Victor

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:43:59 +0000

Will certainly look into your service, sounds good. Would that mean i have to install software on my computer?
Thanks and kind regards Dr Shock

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:00:51 +0000

If you’re interested in these types of services, may I point you to Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) as well? We’re not a social bookmarking tool, but our focus is also on research paper management and sharing with colleagues and lab-mates.

Mendeley has a desktop client (for Windows, Mac and Linux) which parses metadata and cited references from PDFs automatically. It also indexes the full-text for quick searching, and allows you to create citations in Microsoft Word (and in the future, also Open Office and Pages) using our plugin. PDFs and references can then be synchronized with colleagues via “Shared Document Groups”, and they can also be accessed in a private account on Mendeley Web.

However, if you’re primarily interested in social bookmarking tools, then CiteULike is another great alternative (http://www.citeulike.org).

Best wishes from London!
Victor