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| 21.09.2026 | The Student Productivity Stack: Which Study Tools Actually Help in 2026 | Share
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Every September a new wave of apps promises to transform how students study. Some of them do. Most of them add another notification to an already crowded phone and quietly disappear by November.
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| 06.09.2026 | How to Write High Quality University Assignments in Birmingham | Share
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Writing a university assignment can feel like a lot to juggle. You’ve got lectures to keep up with, a part-time job maybe, and a deadline that always seems to sneak up faster than you expect. If you’re studying... |
| 08.02.2022 | Development of clinical practice guidelines ‘is a mess’ | The world of clinical practice guidelines is a mess.
Regardless of what medical field you look at — oncology, cardiology, urology — looking at guidelines recommending treatment developed for different countries might give you vertigo, wonde... |
| 11.11.2020 | 5 Great Academic Help Services For Tech Students | Luckily for students, nowadays there are plenty of platforms and apps that can help you keep track of your studies and boost your academic performance. You can always count on these services in times of need, especially when you’re pressed ... |
| 25.01.2018 | The Pleasures And Treasures Of A Government Shutdown | WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: Pro DACA supporters protest outside the Capitol Hill on January 21,... [+] 2018 in Washington, DC. The U.S. government is shut down after the Senate failed to pass a resolution to temporarily fund the government... |
| 22.08.2017 | Tales of an IT professional sailing around the Antarctic loop | reader comments 75 with 59 posters participating
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The good ship Akademik Tryoshnikov.
Jen Thomas
International (waters) IT man of mystery, Carles Pina i Estany.
Jen Thomas
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| 29.10.2016 | 10 Big Data Technologies To Watch in The UK in 2017 | Share
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Wikibon predicts Big Data market will reach $92.2B by 2026. According to Wikibon’s report, the market for big data software, hardware, and professional services grew to $22.6 billion last year and expected to r... |
| 02.02.2016 | How To Boost Your Constructive Criticism Skills | Giving feedback is a tricky business. It’s a big part of daily life in any workplace, but it requires a delicate balance between firm criticism and good-natured positivity. |
| 07.07.2015 | 13 Awesome Sources to Boost Student Academic Research | Summer has come into its rights already, and the majority of students enjoy July and wait for August, having forgotten about all those exams they had to pass and all those academic papers they had to write about a month ago.
That's awesome,... |
| 12.01.2015 | Elsevier Acquires Newsflo To Add Media Monitoring To Its Academic Research Tool Mendeley | Educational publisher Elsevier has picked up another London startup to boost its tech-based portfolio of products that serve the academic community. It’s acquired Newsflo, a bespoke media monitoring service that enables academics to get ‘im... |
| 24.06.2014 | Edtech Europe Highlights Promising Startups, Calls for More Investments | The “Who’s Who” of the European edtech scene descended on London on June 12 at Edtech Europe 2014, a conference organized by Edxus Group, a London company formed to acquire and consolidate European edtech companies, and IBIS Capital, a Lond... |
| 26.11.2013 | Pharmacist finds ‘significant errors’ in popular Bugs + Drug app | Many hospitals, he writes, use internal antibiograms to track what organisms are susceptible to what antibiotics based on their own data. So in theory, the app is a great idea and it’s beautifully built, he writes. But…
“First, the initial ... |
| 16.10.2013 | Science Exchange (YC S11) gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 major cancer studies | Congrats to the Science Exchange team:
“Over a year ago, I began my mission to improve scientific reproducibility. I created the Reproducibility Initiative with PLOS, figshare, and Mendeley to provide a mechanism for scientists to independ... |
| 19.08.2013 | Diigo, A Tool For Highlighting And Adding Sticky Notes To The Web, Gets A Facelift | The social bookmarking, web annotation and research tool Diigo is launching a redesign and refresh today. The site has 7 million registered users, but the boot-strapped company is seeking a path to profitability. The founder tells TechCrunc... |
| 14.05.2013 | Digitalisation of Education will Result in Fifteen fold Growth for e-Learning Market over the next decade | Industry research unveils vast potential; forms basis for event to foster investment and consolidation in Europe
London, 14th May 2013: Industry research into the parallels between the education and media industries conducted by specialist ... |
| 14.04.2013 | As Berlin Awaits Its Big Tech Exit, Satirical Tumblr Blogs Spawn About The Hype | The hype about the Berlin tech startup scene has continued this year, but as 2013 ebbs into spring, many are asking the same question: When will the hype turn into real results? As many of my contacts said to me on a recent visit: what we n... |
| 09.04.2013 | Elsevier Acquires Mendeley | Mendeley, a London, UK-based provider of a cloud research management and social collaboration platform, has been acquired by Elsevier, the global provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.
The transacti... |
| 08.04.2013 | Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts | Educational publisher Elsevier is diving deeper into the world of open and social educational data: it has bought Mendeley, the London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics and organizations to share research and collaborate w... |
| 03.02.2013 | After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry | Editor’s note: Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers. You can follow Richard on Twitter @richardprice100.
Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He p... |
| 24.01.2013 | The Europas: 6 of the best winners (and losers) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Europas European startup awards just held in ... |
| 24.01.2013 | The Europas: 6 of the best winners (and losers) | The Europas European startup awards just held in Berlin may not have been an unqualified success (the bone-cracking temperatures didn’t help), but the event did shine a welcome light on tech startups from across the continent and beyond. Th... |
| 17.01.2013 | Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data | The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buy Mendeley, a London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics to share ... |
| 27.09.2012 | Meet Plasmyd, A Search Engine/Discussion Platform Just For Scientists | “The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation,” Tim Berners Lee wrote in his Usenet post announcing the World Wide Web in 1991. “We are very interested in spreading the web to other area... |
| 22.08.2012 | Mendeley’s Open API Approach Is On Course To Disrupt Academic Publishing | Science and academia have to date been a little slower to react to the vast changes going on in the business world as we move to the cloud, big data and third-party app ecosystems. Most academic online networks remain locked up by academic ... |
| 23.07.2012 | Amazon Just Put A Rocket Under London’s Biggest Tech Startup Cluster | With the news that Amazon will open an R&D hub in London focused on developing services and APIs for TVs, games consoles, smartphones and PCs, we’ve reached a big inflection point in the development of London’s largest single cluster of... |
| 29.04.2012 | The Future of Science | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other.
Almost every technological and med... |
| 14.03.2012 | A Life Lived Online: How We Talk About Death on Social Media | Death is a part of life, both on and offline. Facebook and MySpace become gathering spaces for the living to mourn their fallen friends. What kind of language do people use to express their grief?
A new study out of the University of Califo... |
| 05.02.2012 | The Future of Peer Review | This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other.
Instant distribution
Many academics are excited a... |
| 17.01.2012 | Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features | figshare, originally launched in January 2011, is re-launching today with some new features. figshare aims to be a repository for scientific figures, raw datasets, videos and more. The retooled service offers AWS storage, version control, a... |
| 08.12.2011 | Mendeley: where academic research meets the cloud | The world of academia and research thrives on organization and collaboration. And when it comes to keeping your research, notes, journals and other documents in order, Mendeley is just the service you need.
It’s cloud-based, allowing you to... |
| 30.09.2011 | Could nanotechnology improve treatment of heart attack and heart failure? | Gold nanowires studding the
pore walls of the scaffolding
material holding the cells.
By Nancy Fliesler
People who have had a heart attack or have coronary artery disease often sustain damage that weakens their heart. Milder forms of heart ... |
| 07.07.2011 | Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | I have the hugest respect for Loic Le Meur. Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 08.03.2011 | Mendeley Launches $10,001 API Contest for Open Science Apps | The scientific and academic research tool Mendeley has announced a contest aimed at encouraging developers to build apps on top of Mendeley’s open database. That database includes over 70 million research papers, usage statistics, reader de... |
| 08.03.2011 | Mendeley wants you to mashup its data and win $10,001 | reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating
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| 27.01.2011 | DLD11: Mendeley now indexing 60 million research papers (TCTV) | Mendeley, dubbed “the Last.fm of research”, is on a roll right now.
The startup offers a secure online database for scientists, academics and researchers to store their research papers in the ‘cloud’, making it easier to share those documen... |
| 16.12.2010 | Lessons from London – and a few UK Start-ups that aren't Rubbish | So that was London for another year – my annual trip back to the old town to see what’s what, en route North to spend Christmas with the family.
Interested readers might recall (almost) a couple of weeks ago as I was leaving San Francisco, ... |
| 16.06.2010 | Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research, rolls out premium packages to steady customer nerves | Mendeley, “the Last.fm of research”, has rolled out new premium packages after customers requested features such as more storage and expressed a willingness to pay. If only to see the longevity of the London-based startup.
Mendeley offers a... |
| 29.04.2010 | Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data | Innovations in communications software and websites can be quite exciting. After the dust dies down, however, it’s really not clear how much more information has been made available, how many more people can communicate, how much more think... |
| 28.04.2010 | Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million To Help Researchers Connect With Each Other | When it comes to academic research, it’s easy to think that academics are always privy to what their peers are up to, and are up-to-date on the latest research papers in their field. Unfortunately, that’s not usually the case. Academia.edu ... |
| 24.02.2010 | Smarkets launches its social assault on the betting world | Smarkets, a startup which launched into private beta soon after presenting at our annual GeeknRolla event last year, has today launched publically.
Smarkets is a ‘social betting exchange’ which is launching initially with football/soccer be... |
| 20.01.2010 | Digital Mission sending 39 UK companies to the US for South by South West interactive | [UK] Digital Mission returns for a second year to dispatch some the UK’s leading digital/tech companies to the US.
Organised by Chinwag and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), 39 ‘digital’ SMEs have been selected to attend South by South West... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, there was a debate about whether a bright moment for tech startups in London had passed. The Bebo and Last.fm acquisitions happened almost two years ago, and several of the startups from the “Sil... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, ther... |
| 09.12.2009 | LeWeb: Mendeley – the last.fm for academics | [UK] Mendeley wants to be the Last.fm for research papers. The company offers a free academic desktop software for managing and sharing research papers and a website where you can back up the data and connect to like-minded researchers. For... |
| 18.11.2009 | Mendeley, The-Last.fm-of-research, On Course To Be World’s Largest Research Database | London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm of research”, has announced that it’s reached something of a milestone today – claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded to the site in less than a year since its la... |
| 18.11.2009 | Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research, could be world’s largest online research paper database by early 2010 | [UK] London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm of research”, has announced that it’s reached something of a milestone today – claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded to the site in less than a year since i... |
| 10.11.2009 | Le Web announces the list for the startup competition | Well, after a tonne of entries and a pretty intense sifting process, Le Web, the annual gathering of the tech tribes in Paris, has announced the names of the 16 startups that will present during the startup competition — organised for the f... |
| 12.05.2009 | Mendeley's Klingon battle cruiser de-cloaks in London with the Last.fm for academia | I was pretty surprised when Mendeley recently de-cloaked, like a Klingon battle-cruiser, in London’s Old Street area, slap bang in the middle of the capital’s Start-up Central. They played a blinder with their pitch at the recent Plugg conf... |
| 05.04.2009 | The Next Web Is Just Around The Corner (The Conference, That Is) | The Next Web Conference 2009 in Amsterdam is quickly approaching, and it’s promising to be a good show again this year even if it won’t be Erick Schonfeld moderating the event this time. TechCrunch Europe’s Mike Butcher will be there though... |
| 16.03.2009 | Plugg 2009: Videos, Pictures And Presentations | As TechCrunch UK & Europe editor Mike Butcher already wrote, the Plugg 2009 conference is a wrap. As the organizer, I won’t say too much about the quality of the event other than that we’ve received a lot of positive feedback about the ... |
| 12.03.2009 | European Startups Put To The Plugg Test | So Plugg, the European startups conference in Brussels today (organised by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters) wrapped up with two overall winners of their startup competition, and if I do say so myself they were pretty worthy. The overall win... |
| 12.03.2009 | Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | So Plugg, the European startups conference in Brussels today (organised by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters) wrapped up with two overall winners of their startup competition, and if I do say so myself they were pretty worthy.
The overall win... |
| 01.03.2009 | Plugg Announces 20 Finalists For Startup Pitching Competition (15% Discount Codes Here) | We’re less than two weeks away from Plugg, the European startup conference organized by our writer from across the pond, Robin Wauters, and it promises to be a great event with a host of knowledgeable speakers and a startup competition that... |
| 25.02.2009 | Mendeley Snags $2 Million In Early-Stage Funding For Research Paper Management Tool | Mendeley, makers of a desktop and web application designed to make it easier for academics to manage and discover relevant research papers on any topic, has raised $2 million in early-stage funding from some high-profile investors, includin... |
| 19.02.2009 | Ars exclusive: Review of Papers for iPhone | reader comments 19 with 16 posters participating, including story author
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| - | Пероральная биодоступность популярных ноотропов | Какие вещества имеет смысл принимать в виде классических «капсульных» БАДов, а какие точно не дадут никакого результата, как бы вы не старались. Введение
Это индекс пероральной биодоступности ноотропов. Мы сделали его потому, что производит... |
| - | Pharmacist finds ‘significant errors’ in popular Bugs + Drug app | Physicians might be using more mobile healthcare apps, but the question of trust is one that still looms. An example of that comes this week in the form of a pharmacist’s biting review of an app from the powerhouse team of Epocrates and Ath... |
