Victor, co-founder of Mendeley, wrote to tell me about Mendeley, free academic software for managing and sharing research papers, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Mendeeley lets you manage your papers online, discover research trends and connect to like-minded researchers. Here are some of its features:
- Automatic metadata and reference extraction
- Full-text search and filters
- File management, renaming and folder monitorin
- Bibliographies in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice
- Sharing and collaborative annotation
- Online management and multi-machine synchronization
- Citation capturing in the browser
- Research trends and statistics
- Research profiles and newsfeeds
The founders of Mendeley have investment from the people behind Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music to develop it further
[52 other search and research tools are listed on the (Re)search tools page of the Directory of Learning Tools]
