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Jose Luis Andrade – President, The Americas Sujay Darji – Regional Sales Manager October 22, 2012. Set Access to Open - Mendeley. The Need for Open Science.
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Jose Luis Andrade – President, The Americas Sujay Darji – Regional Sales Manager October 22, 2012 Set Access to Open - Mendeley
The Need for Open Science “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.“
2,000,000 People Are Using Mendeley • Network of 1,000 Network of 1.000 Mendeley Advocates on campuses around the world Advocates on campuses around the world: • 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
Where is the library in the digital workflow of research? Main focus of libraries: • Discoverability of content • Availability of content • Reference manager Library
Open Access and Open science - The Ways Forward “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.“
Jose Luis Andrade jandrade@us.swets.com Sujay Darji sdarji@us.swets.com