Mendeley just included a feature I’ve been waiting for for a while now…public collections of articles that you can manage from within the desktop client. You can subscribe to the feed or embed code into your site to keep up to date with relevant articles of whatever public libraries you’re interested in. This is potentially very useful for teachers who have reading lists that students need to be aware of.
In the spirit of a transparent research process, I’ve created and made public the library I’ll be using for my systematic review of the literature for my thesis. It’s very limited right now, as I’ve only created it for this post. Over time and together with my research assistant, I’ll obviously be adding new articles regularly.
Yes, at the moment, the “public collections” are one-way, so you’d need to have the PDF in a separate “shared collection” in order to have two-way sharing of the PDF. Sorry about the feature confusion, that should be more clear.
Hi William. Thanks for the comment. Am I correct in thinking that it isn’t possible to have a public collection of articles that’s also shared with others who can add to it? Am I missing something?
I’d love to have a public feed of only the metadata, but where users I’ve shared the collection with can share the actual PDFs.
I’ve been waiting for this too. I feed my public collections into Friendfeed to bring interesting articles to people’s attention.
Shared collections, as opposed to public ones, are good for journal clubs and class projects because they include the PDF in the collection, too.