Mendeley provides researchers with solutions for content discovery, literature management and collaboration. It is a cross-platform application consisting of Mendeley desktop tool and Mendeley Web that helps researchers to manage, annotate and share paper collections, as well as set up groups and projects. It allows researchers to create personal bibliographic database using Mendeley’s automatic extraction of documents details from PDfs and automatic retrieval of information from CrossRef, PubMed, ArXiv etc. Researchers can synchronise their database across multiple devices and share it online. They can easily cite their papers in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer and create bibliographies with one click. They can capture citations from websites using Mendeley’s cross-browser Web Importer, share and tag research papers, collaborate and create their professional profile. There are readership statistics available and Mendeley Suggest tool.
It is best to use Mendeley Desktop that is compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone.
No, one can set up free account using any address. Nevertheless, institutional email address will be useful in case of Mendeley Institutional Edition which offers premium Mendeley account.
Create an account and upload documents from the hard drive of your computer using Add Files/ Folder/ Watch, import and extract metadata from reference managers or export it from databases like Scopus. You can also use Web Importer tool.
In a cloud on Amazon S3 server and on your hard drive if you extracted data and uploaded files from your hard drive.
2GB of free storage for private files and 100MB for data shared in groups. In case of Premium accounts: 5GB and 20GB respectively.
Yes, just go to https://www.mendeley.com/account/personal/
Yes, just follow the instructions available on the platform.
Cite-O-Matic which is compatible with most editors like MS Word, LibreOffice and LaTeX.
From Mendely Desktop which extracts data directly from documents. If data is incomplete, the documents will appear in “Needs Review” folder. Researchers can complete them using
Search icon or magnifying glass at DOI number.