Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data - NYTimes.com

"London-based Mendeley's offering up an Open API and making a vast catalog of academic publications searchable....Prior to making the API catch-as-catch-can, Mendeley is asking researchers and developers to send in proposals by May 14 and will announce who among them will have immediate access on May 21....Although the combination of Open APi and search should in itself should be a powerful source of information, inside academe and out, it might also inspire academic publishers, who are notorious stingy with information, to loosen their stranglehold on knowledge...."