Organize, share and discover

research papers

Like iTunes™ for research papers. Mendeley is a free research
management tool for desktop & web.

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Available for Windows, Mac and Linux | Why sign up?

While you can use Mendeley as standalone software, a free Mendeley account enables its powerful web-based features:

• Improved PDF data extraction by cross-checking with external databases (e.g. CrossRef and PubMed)
• Document sharing and collaboration
• Document synchronization across multiple computers
• Online document management in your browser
• One-click document import from over 40 web databases
• Access to research trend statistics
• Networking with other researchers in your field

Read more about these features on the How It Works page. If you really don't want a Mendeley Web account, you can still download here.

• 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 research 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Reviews about Mendeley

• "Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data."

  

  "Mendeley […] can help you spot rising stars and trends in scientific research as they happen. Who is the most popular researcher in your field this morning? Mendeley can, for the first time, tell you."

  

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

  

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

  
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Network activity

• 11,010 Research institutions using Mendeley
• 443,589 Researchers using Mendeley
• 31,737,021 Documents in people's libraries

• Featured Document:

  A G Pedersen (1997). Neural network prediction of translation initiation sites in eukaryotes: perspectives...

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