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Mendeley 
Automatic metadata and reference extraction (Mendeley Desktop)Developer(s) Mendeley Ltd. Initial release August 2008 Stable release 1.1.3 / October 21, 2011 Operating system Cross-platform Available in English Type Reference management software, Social software for academic research License Proprietary Website Mendeley Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers,[1] discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers.[2][3][4] Mendeley requires the user to store all data on its servers. Upon registration, Mendeley provides the user with 1000 MB of free space, which is upgradeable at a cost.
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History
Mendeley was founded in November 2007 and is based in London. The first public beta version was released in August 2008. The team comprises researchers, graduates, and open source developers from a variety of academic institutions, although the software itself is not open source. The company’s investors include the former executive chairman of Last.fm, the former founding engineers of Skype, and the former Head of Digital Strategy at Warner Music Group, as well as academics from Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University.
Mendeley has won several awards: Plugg.eu "European Start-up of the Year 2009",[5][6] TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009",[7] and The Guardian ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".[8]
Features
- Mendeley Desktop, based on Qt, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Automatic extraction of metadata from PDF papers.
- Back-up and synchronization across multiple computers and with a private online account.
- PDF viewer with sticky notes, text highlighting and full-screen reading.
- Full-text search across papers.
- Smart filtering, tagging and automatic PDF file renaming.
- Citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
- Import of documents and research papers from external websites (e.g. PubMed, Google Scholar, Arxiv, etc.) via browser bookmarklet.
- BibTeX export/file sync
- Private groups to collaboratively tag and annotate research papers.
- Public groups to share reading lists.
- Social networking features (newsfeeds, comments, profile pages, etc.).
- Usage-based readership statistics about papers, authors and publications.
- iPhone app
- iPad app
Developmental time line
- July, 2011: 1.0
- April, 2011: 0.9.9 beta
- October, 2010: 0.9.8 beta
- February, 2010: 0.9.6 beta
- July, 2009: 0.9.0 beta
- December, 2008: 0.6.0 beta
- August 13, 2008: Launch with support of Last.fm Chairman Stefan Glänzer and former Skype engineers (KDE developers)
See also
References
- ^ Jason Fitzpatrick (2009-08-17). "Mendeley Manages Your Documents on Your Desktop and in the Cloud". http://lifehacker.com/5334254/mendeley-manages-your-documents-on-your-desktop-and-in-the-cloud. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ^ Hull, D. .; Pettifer, S. .; Kell, D. . (Oct 2008). McEntyre, Johanna. ed. "Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web" (Free full text). PLoS computational biology 4 (10): e1000204. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204. ISSN 1553-734X. PMC 2568856. PMID 18974831. http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204.
- ^ Henning, V. .; Reichelt, J. . (2008). "Mendeley - A Last.fm For Research?". 2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience. 7. pp. 327–328. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.128. ISBN 978-1-4244-3380-3.
- ^ BBC (2009-10-26). "Science enters the age of Web 2.0". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8325875.stm.
- ^ Plugg.eu (2009-03-12). "Winners for Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2009 announced". http://plugg.eu/media/blog/p/detail/winners-for-plugg-start-ups-rally-2009-announced. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
- ^ TechCrunch (2009-03-12). "Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners". http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/plugg-wraps-with-two-very-capable-winnners/. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
- ^ TechCrunch (2009-07-09). "The Europas: The Winners and Finalists". http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/the-europas-the-winners-and-finalists/.
- ^ The Guardian (2009-09-07). "The top 100 tech media companies". London. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech-media-invest-100/top-100.
Competitors
- Epernicus
- ResearchGate
- Scispace.net
External links
- Mendeley official website
- Mendeley import bookmarklet tool
- Interview with Mendeley co-founder Victor Henning, Intruders.tv Video
- Interview with Mendeley co-founders Victor Henning and Jan Reichelt, Intruders.tv Video
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