Comments on: The Mendeley Dilemma

By: Open (Source) for Business » Cyborgology

Open (Source) for Business » Cyborgology — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:37:22 +0000

[…] to offer the end user? I don’t want (but have) another Ouya. I started using Zotero after my (very public) breakup with Mendeley but not a day goes by that I don’t miss the polish and reliability of what […]

By: Friday Roundup: January 25, 2012 » The Editors' Desk

Friday Roundup: January 25, 2012 » The Editors' Desk — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:17:13 +0000

[…] “Pseudonuptial troubles,” wishing Mendeley wouldn’t sell out, why some memes persist, and Nathan Jurgenson takes on The […]

By: Comprehensive Comparison of Reference Managers: Mendeley vs. Zotero vs. Docear « Docear

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:20:44 +0000

[…] A while ago, Mendeley was acquired by Elsevier for an estimated 69-100 Million Dollars. That’s good, on the one hand: You can be pretty sure that Mendeley’s development is important to Elsevier, and most likely Elsevier will further invest of the development. On the other hand, Elsevier is not known for its charity and certainly wants something in return for their investment. Nobody really knows what Elsevier expects from its investment. And nobody knows what Elsevier would do if their expectations are not met. Would they sell Mendeley? Would they bury it? Would they try to increase revenues by any means? Therefore, compared to Zotero, the future of Mendeley is more uncertain. If you are interested in more details, there are two interesting Blog posts, including excellent comments, about the sustainability of Mendeley and Zotero: 1. “Zotero Versus” by Sean Takats, the director of Zotero, and 2. “The Mendeley Dilemma”. […]

By: The Entire University of California System went Open Access » Cyborgology

The Entire University of California System went Open Access » Cyborgology — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:00:50 +0000

[…] Michael Eisen, co-founder of PLoS, asks that we “not get too excited about the new UC open access policy.” Saying that it’s “toothless” because of the generous opt-out policy which he describes as an “major, major hole”. Similar policies implemented at individual universities have been met with opt-out requirements by publishers including, you guessed it, Elsevier. […]

By: Emilio Pisanty

Emilio Pisanty — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:41:40 +0000

Just briefly: you mean Gray’s Anatomy.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:29:12 +0000

I don’t see a loss here.

Mendeley is great at one thing: auto-renaming and -organizing PDF files.

It is bad at lots of things:
– Searching
– Filtering
– Searching AND filtering
– Sorting

… you know, all the things that are REALLY HELPFUL when you’re actually trying to _do_ work.

By: osvaldo martin

osvaldo martin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:44:13 +0000

According to the Privacy Policy of Mendeley “Whatever personal data and original content you upload to your Mendeley account is owned by you. We do not claim any ownership rights over your research. Of course, you can delete your data at any time. ” and then continues “In certain cases, we anonymously aggregate this data on an institutional level or other relevant segmenting and make that information available to the Mendeley community. ”
Hence I can request Mendeley to delete ALL my data including the portions that have been aggregated, Am I right?

By: davidbanks

davidbanks — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:23:15 +0000

Dr. Gunn,

I do really appreciate you making the effort to comment on the blog and reach out. I posted a new commentary today: http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/04/09/why-i-will-still-uninstallmendeley/#more-15193

I’m still not on board with Elsevier but I really do hope you and your team will infect the giant squid that’s strangling academia and kill it dead one day. I’m sure everyone at Mendeley believes in the product and thinks it will revolutionize academia. It very well might, but think about who you just helped reap the benefits of that change.

best,

-db

By: The Mendeley Acquisition #uninstallmendeley » Cyborgology

The Mendeley Acquisition #uninstallmendeley » Cyborgology — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:18:08 +0000

[…] for Mendeley and an accomplished biologist (according to his Mendeley profile!) was good enough to comment on my original post from January and ask, “So now that the deal is official, and both sides have said that the data […]

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:31:15 +0000

So now that the deal is official, and both sides have said that the data will remain open and no one will get sued on account of their reading history, maybe we can revisit some of this? http://blog.mendeley.com/press-release/qa-team-mendeley-joins-elsevier/