![]() And because we have shared these newly-generated citation styles with the open CSL (Citation Style Language) repository, the styles are not just available to Mendeley users, but to users of other tools like Zotero, Papers, BibSonomy, Docear, Qiqqa, and others.” For example, as one of our first steps, we have already added support for all Elsevier journal citation styles, making it easier for authors to properly format their articles when submitting their work to Elsevier journals. Now that we are part of the Elsevier family, we have started to close the gaps in this workflow and make it more seamless. “Mendeley and Elsevier are serving the same audience - researchers around the globe - and are covering different parts of the scholarly workflow. Many of these initiatives mirror ideas which we at Mendeley would have liked to pursue as well, but had to put off because we didn’t have the resources - ideas around recommendation engines, text mining, interactive content, raw data, and open access. While meeting many of my new colleagues, I have been offered a sneak peek at the initiatives underway at Elsevier designed to serve authors and researchers better. He explained: "As the weeks have passed, I've become even more excited about the Mendeley-Elsevier partnership. In fact, he is planning to relocate there. Since then, Henning has joined the Elsevier strategy team as a Vice President of Strategy, and is a regular visitor at the Elsevier Amsterdam office. He said: “We started Mendeley to help researchers, and Elsevier lets us do that for a much larger community.” He also highlighted some of the advantages for users - for example, thanks to the acquisition, Mendeley could immediately double user storage space free of charge. In an article on Elsevier Connect, he explained that it just made “intuitive sense” to him. In the days that followed, Mendeley co-founder, Victor Henning, spoke publicly about the rationale behind the deal. When the acquisition was announced back on April 9 th, we confirmed that Mendeley’s senior management team would remain in place. With the ink on the contract now dry and the integration of the two companies in progress, we examine what has changed and outline some of the plans already underway to simplify the lives of researchers. ![]() Nearly three months has passed since the cloud-based research management and social collaboration platform, Mendeley, joined Elsevier. Mendeley and Elsevier What does the future hold? By Victor Henning and Olivier Dumon Posted on 26 June 2013
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