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Mendeley
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Also known as mendeley.com, Mendeley (United Kingdom)

Mendeley is a reference manager software founded in 2007 by PhD students Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt and acquired by the Dutch academic publishing company Elsevier in 2013. It is used to manage and share research papers and to generate bibliographies for scholarly articles.

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Software.name
Mendeley
Software.logo
Mendeley Logo Vertical.png
Software.screenshot
Mendeley-destop-screenshot.jpg
Software.caption
Mendeley Desktop (previous Mendeley main application)
Software.developer
Elsevier
Software.discontinued
No
Software.latest_release_version
2.108.0
Software.language
English
Software.author
Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt
Software.genre
Reference management software
Software.operating system
Windows, macOS, Linux
Software.license
Proprietary

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Type
Company
Founded
2007
Location
London, United Kingdom
Status
Active

GRID grid.436184.c · ISNI 0000 0004 4692 3185

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.mendeley.com
Image
Mendeley FSM.png
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inception
2007-11-06
software version identifier
1.19.8
social media followers
20600
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9 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Products evolution
  • Mendeley components
  • Limitations and known issues
  • Features
  • Incidents
  • See also
  • Notes and references
  • External links

Mendeley is a reference manager software founded in 2007 by PhD students Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt and acquired by the Dutch academic publishing company Elsevier in 2013. It is used to manage and share research papers and to generate bibliographies for scholarly articles.

==History== The company Mendeley, named after the Austrian biologist Gregor Mendel and the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, was founded in London in November 2007 by three German PhD students. The first public beta version of the software was released in August 2008. The company's investors included some people previously involved with Last.fm, Skype, and Warner Music Group, as well as academicians from Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University.thumb|Victor Henning and Jan Reichelt receiving the Plugg "European Start-up of the Year" award, 2009 In 2009, Mendeley won several awards including Plugg.eu "European Start-up of the Year 2009", TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009", and The Guardian ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".

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