May 3, 2019 - Includes tests and PC download for Windows 32 and 64-bit systems. Mendeley Desktop is a freeware bibliography generator software app.
Size: 54.8MB
License: FREEWARE
Publisher:Publisher | Listed Programs
Release Date: 2019-05-02 | Changelog
Submit Date: 2019-05-02
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
Downloads: 37067
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Studying and writing scientific papers requires a lot of effort, including conducting in-depth research and collaborating with others. Mendeley Desktop is meant to make the whole process easier for users. The free reference manager also doubles as an academic social network where you can share full-text articles, references and reading lists.
You may even create research groups to solve assignments, write papers and share feedback with other collaborators. You can also connect with classmates, peers and other colleagues. The platform gives you the opportunity to showcase the research you have published to many people from different parts of the world.
You need to create an account that allows you to save and access your research from multiple locations and devices. The platform allows you to make a fully-searchable library easily and quickly, which will help you cite as you write. You will find it easy to sort your notes, documents and references. You can then use keywords to search for what you want.
The program automatically scans files and displays their titles, names of authors and other identification information, making it easy to use them as reference. It also allows you to compare information in multiple documents by keeping them open in different tabs.
You can access the material you store using different devices. This means you can read your documents and make necessary annotations on the go, which is important considering that you may think of something that can get lost for good if you do not capture it immediately.
Mendeley also makes it easy for you to generate your bibliography and citations in your preferred format. The platform is compatible with the Web, desktop and iOS devices, which allows users to access their libraries wherever they are. You need to create a free account that gives you 2 GB of storage space.
Review Date: 2016-11-24
Pros: none
Cons: As the previous reviewer said, this collects information.
Other Thoughts: Please put out a version that doesn't collect private information.
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Keep all your research notes and documents in order with Mendeley
Does your virtual desktop and filing system get as cluttered and disorganised as the real thing? If you’re frequently left scrabbling about your computer looking for documents, you need a tool that can do the hard work for you.
Mendeley is a tool aimed at researchers and academics, making it easy to organise, cross-reference and index any kind of document. Although aimed at high-brow users, its features can in fact be used by anyone with a need to work with a slew of documents of different types scattered across your hard drive.
Mendeley is also designed to work with the cloud – and you’ll need to sign up for a free account with 1GB storage space (500MB personal, 500MB shared) when you start. This allows you to access your research from your web browser, plus synchronise your setup across multiple computers as well as access it on the movie via an iPhone/iPad app, but it goes beyond that.
You can also opt to put your research papers up for collaboration and peer review from others in your field via private and public groups. Again, it’s something aimed very much at academia and researchers, but skip this part and you can still use the service as a backup and sync tool for your important papers – or whatever else you wish to use it for.
The desktop tool is simple enough to use – drag and drop your documents in any of the supported formats (including Word and PDF), then check their details before organising them into folders and sub-folders.
Mendeley also automatically extracts any meta-data from your documents and builds an index of the text within, which you can subsequently search to quickly track down the documents you’re looking for. Note that Mendeley will attempt to find metadata for the document from various online resources, so expect some false alarms to appear. Sadly, there’s no way to switch this feature off – you’ll have to edit the details yourself manually.
You can add notes to specific documents, plus view them within their own tab in Mendeley itself, complete with annotation tools like sticky notes and highlighter pens. You can even - with the help of free plug-ins - create source citations in later versions of Word and OpenOffice directly from Mandeley itself.
Whether you're a serious researcher looking for a way to keep your documents and other research tools in order, or someone looking for an easy way to organise a set of personal documents, Mandeley could be just the tool you need.
What's new in 1.19.5? See the Release Notes for more info.
- added Mendeley Cite - our new citation tool
- fixed two UI bugs.
- fixed two UI bugs.
Although it can be used for non-research purposes, Mendeley is very much a tool that will be of most use to academics and researchers.
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