Mendeley Desktop

Free research management tool for anyone.

Mendeley Desktop is a kind of document manager, just like iTunes is for multimedia contents, but it has been developed to organize and speed up scientific and university investigations, research papers and projects, even allowing the collaboration between various users.

  It isn't just capable of reading and administrating PDF files, it can also do so with XML, RIS and BIB, even though it would be even better if it included more support for e-books.

  The program allows to create a bibliographical database with all the document that we are using or want to use for our project.

  All we will have to do is add them or indicate the location in the hard drive so that it automatically stores all the new documents that we store there.

  The database can be exported and shared with other workmates over Internet. We will also be able to upload it to a web server and synchronize it with different computers by means of a free account.

  We will be able to underline the documents, export their texts or images and share them with our colleagues. Mendeley Desktop also allows to perform searches, with the possibility to filter them by author, publication, key words and even tags, as well as performing batch editing.

  We will be able to generate automatic bibliographies, following the most used citation styles, that can later be used in Word or OpenOffice.

  It also allows, by adding the Import to Mendeley plug-in as a bookmark, to add all kinds of documents from web pages, from sites like Amazon, APS, Google BookSearch, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, NASA ADS, PubMed, ScienceDirect, World Cat, Zetoc and, of course, Wikipedia.

  Keeping track of the necessary bibliography for a project was never as simple as using Mendeley Desktop.