If you deal with academic knowledge, then Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and website which helps you manage, share and discover both content and contacts in research. It’s easy to use, and it’s free.

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Mendeley is for researchers, academics and students

If you deal with academic knowledge, then Mendeley will make your life easier. It's a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover both content and contacts in research. It's easy to use, and it's free.

For the latest news, development updates and a look at our start-up life visit our blog.


Mendeley's features

  • Automatic extraction of metadata (authors, title, journal etc.) from academic papers into a library database. Saves you a lot of manual typing!

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  • Manage your papers as easily as mp3s: Superfast full-text search across all your papers, citation style formatting etc. Coming soon: Microsoft Word integration, OCR (image-to-text conversion, so you can full-text search all your scanned PDFs), and more good stuff.

  • Share and synchronize your library database with others, back it up online and access it from everywhere.

  • Connect with other researchers on our social network, present your own research, and track its impact on the academic community. See when your colleagues have new publications, are attending the same conferences, or are traveling to places near you.

  • Discover statistics about up-and-coming topics in your academic discipline and get detailed insights about your library database. Coming soon: Reading recommendations based on your interests and your existing library.