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Mendeley has won several awards: Plugg.eu "European Start-up of the Year 2009",<ref>{{cite web | title=Winners for Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2009 announced | url=http://plugg.eu/media/blog/p/detail/winners-for-plugg-start-ups-rally-2009-announced | author=Plugg.eu | date=2009-03-12 | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | author=TechCrunch | url=http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/plugg-wraps-with-two-very-capable-winnners/ | date=2009-03-12 | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref> TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009",<ref>{{cite web | title=The Europas: The Winners and Finalists | url=http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/the-europas-the-winners-and-finalists/ | author=TechCrunch | date=2009-07-09}}</ref> and [[The Guardian]] ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".<ref>{{cite news | title=The top 100 tech media companies | author=The Guardian | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech-media-invest-100/top-100 | date=2009-09-07 | location=London}}</ref>
Mendeley has won several awards: Plugg.eu "European Start-up of the Year 2009",<ref>{{cite web | title=Winners for Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2009 announced | url=http://plugg.eu/media/blog/p/detail/winners-for-plugg-start-ups-rally-2009-announced | author=Plugg.eu | date=2009-03-12 | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | author=TechCrunch | url=http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/plugg-wraps-with-two-very-capable-winnners/ | date=2009-03-12 | accessdate=2009-03-25}}</ref> TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009",<ref>{{cite web | title=The Europas: The Winners and Finalists | url=http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/the-europas-the-winners-and-finalists/ | author=TechCrunch | date=2009-07-09}}</ref> and [[The Guardian]] ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".<ref>{{cite news | title=The top 100 tech media companies | author=The Guardian | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech-media-invest-100/top-100 | date=2009-09-07 | location=London}}</ref>


[[Elsevier]] purchased Mendeley in 2013.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/ Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts]</ref>
[[Elsevier]] purchased Mendeley in 2013.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/ Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts]</ref> The sale upset some Mendeley users who felt that the program's acquisition by publishing giant Elsevier, known for restrictive publishing practices, was antithetical to the open sharing model of Mendeley.<ref name=NewYorker>[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/elsevier-mendeley-journals-science-software.html "When the Rebel Alliance Sells Out"], David Dobbs, ''[[New Yorker]]'', April 12, 2013</ref>


==Features==
==Features==

Revision as of 13:30, 16 April 2013

Mendeley
Original author(s)Mendeley Ltd.
Developer(s)Elsevier
Initial releaseAugust 2008 (2008-08)
Stable release
1.8.3 / February 1, 2013; 11 years ago (February 1, 2013)[1]
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeReference management software, Social software for academic research
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteMendeley

Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers,[2] 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.[3][4][5] Mendeley requires the user to store all basic citation data on its servers - storing copies of documents is at the user's discretion. Upon registration, Mendeley provides the user with 2 GB of free web storage space, which is upgradeable at a cost.

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 developers from a variety of academic institutions. 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",[6][7] TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009",[8] and The Guardian ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".[9]

Elsevier purchased Mendeley in 2013.[10] The sale upset some Mendeley users who felt that the program's acquisition by publishing giant Elsevier, known for restrictive publishing practices, was antithetical to the open sharing model of Mendeley.[11]

Features

Mendeley is available as a basic free version, and also in premium payable versions.

  • 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, OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
  • 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

  • November, 2012: 1.7
  • July, 2012: 1.6
  • May, 2012: 1.5
  • December, 2011: 1.3
  • 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

  1. ^ "Mendeley Tips".
  2. ^ Jason Fitzpatrick (2009-08-17). "Mendeley Manages Your Documents on Your Desktop and in the Cloud". Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  3. ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204 instead.
  4. ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.128, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1109/eScience.2008.128 instead.
  5. ^ BBC (2009-10-26). "Science enters the age of Web 2.0". BBC News.
  6. ^ Plugg.eu (2009-03-12). "Winners for Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2009 announced". Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  7. ^ TechCrunch (2009-03-12). "Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners". Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  8. ^ TechCrunch (2009-07-09). "The Europas: The Winners and Finalists".
  9. ^ The Guardian (2009-09-07). "The top 100 tech media companies". London.
  10. ^ Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts
  11. ^ "When the Rebel Alliance Sells Out", David Dobbs, New Yorker, April 12, 2013

Competitors

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