Mendeley, a global research collaboration and reference manager platform, has pledged to actively support and collaborate with Research4Life on the heels of its first anniversary at Elsevier.
Research 4 Life is a public-private partnership that provides free and low-cost access to peer reviewed resources. Its main challenges are boosting usage and output by researchers in developing countries. As one of the founding partners, Elsevier supplies a quarter of the content.
Mendeley's free cloud-based apps will enable researchers to organise, share and discover new research with other scientists worldwide. Within Research4Life countries, Mendeley currently has thousands of active researcher users and hundreds of global Advisors to help train, educate and increase awareness about how make the most of these research productivity tools.
So far, researchers on the program have been using uneven solutions involving various workflow and citation management tools, but these are often expensive, and if you're trying to collaborate on a joint project with a researcher who doesn't have the same tool, that can be really problematic. Mendeley, with its vast community of researchers worldwide, will help to facilitate and accelerate the pace of discovery for Research4Life scientists.
Jessica L. Reeves, Mendeley's Head of User Engagement and Research4Life Mendeley liaison, said their goal is to educate users through Mendeley's Resource Center and grow the global Mendeley Advisor community to support researchers in developing countries.
