Mendeley Desktop
Organize, share and discover research papers
Like iTunes™ for research papers. Mendeley is a free research
management tool for desktop & web.
Share papers cite & create bibliographies
in Word & OpenOffice collaborate
search & annotate PDFs sync across PCs
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Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
  • Organize

    your own research library

    Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography. It gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite. It also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details automatically. Drag and drop functionality makes populating the library quick and easy. The Web Importer allows you to quickly and easily import papers from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and many more at the click of a button.

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  • Share

    with other researchers

    Collaborate with fellow researchers and share information, resources and experiences with shared and public collections. Your research team will have easy access to each others papers. Just create a group, invite your colleagues and drag and drop documents in there. This way you can keep on top of what they're reading and discover more about what interests you.

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  • Discover

    new research and trends

    Through the Mendeley research network you can connect with other researchers in your field. This opens up a whole new avenue for knowledge discovery. You can view the most read authors, journals and papers in your field. You can explore by using tags associated with your research area. By navigating the web of knowledge available to you, you make some useful contacts along the way too. In addition to that, you can also view interesting statistics about your own digital library.

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Reviews about Mendeley

  • "Cross-platform Mendeley organizes, indexes, and even stores your documents in the cloud to make document management painless."

    Lifehacker
  • "Mendeley is on the way to changing the face of science."

    The Guardian
  • "Mendeley is out to scrobble data about research papers, as well as making scientific research more social."

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Network activity

  • User statistics 4,108 Research institutions using Mendeley
  • Group statistics 11,258 Research groups collaborating
  • Papers statistics 177,993,698 References in people's libraries