Product Review of Mendeley
Jinfo Report

22nd June 2016

Abstract

Mendeley is a reference management tool and scholarly collaboration network, acting as a complete research platform and now offering discovery, analytics and data management. It is free for individual or small group accounts, with paid-for levels for Team and Institutional users.

This review:

• Introduces the product and its acquisition by Elsevier in 2013
  
  
• Provides contact details
  
  
• Looks at media attention and awards won
  
  
• Outlines the key advantages Mendeley brings to its users in academic institutions, NGOs and government
  
  
• Looks at how to use Mendeley to get the most out of the product, including features such as tagging, highlighting and cite while you write
  
  
• Provides pointers on searching the 800 million references in the database
  
  
• Explains how to use and sync Mendeley across a number of devices or platforms
  
  
• Highlights newer features such as Mendeley Suggest and how the Android and iOS apps perform
  
  
• Outlines competitors including EndNote and RefWorks on the reference management side and newer market entrants such as ReadCube, RefME and Paperpile
  
  
• Summarises the product's value and how it has evolved over nine years into a complete research platform which sets a high bar for reference management.

Reviewed by Andy Tattersall

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