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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- Report title: Product Review of Mendeley
- Pages: 26
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- Product Review of Mendeley (Value - Help & Training; Competitors; Development; Pricing)
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