Mendeley - organize, share and discover research papers

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a free, award-winning, desktop and web solution designed for managing and sharing research papers, 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 research paper management tool and social network for researchers.

Feature highlights

• Create your personal bibliographic database using Mendeley's automatic extraction of document details (author, title, journal, keywords, etc.) and cited references from PDFs, as well as automatic retrieval of additional information from CrossRef, PubMed, ArXiv, etc.
• Read, full-text search, annotate, and highlight your PDF research papers in Mendeley's integrated PDF viewer.
• Synchronize your bibliographic database across multiple machines, share it with colleagues, manage it online, or embed bibliographies on blogs and websites.
• Quickly cite your papers in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer and create bibliographies with a single click.
• Capture citations from websites using Mendeley's crossbrowser Web Importer or via synchronization with CiteULike.
  

Mendeley is for:

• Researchers
• Scholars and educators
• Graduate and undergraduate students
• Information management professionals
• Librarians

I went to a demo of this recently and was quite impressed. It's a young start-up business, founded by three Germans, but Cambridge University is now the third largest user of Mendeley in the world (after two large and prestigious US universities). They are willing to give demonstrations to researchers, just contact them. They also invite input on how to improve Mendeley. They have several developments in the pipeline, especially for the social networking aspect of the software.

To find out more and to register with Mendeley for free visit http://www.mendeley.com/