Comments on: Mendeley Snags $2 Million In Early-Stage Funding For Research Paper Management Tool

By: Abdi

Abdi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:59:23 +0000

I’ve got a job interview with Mendeley and I’m rather excited as they seem like a good company to work for.

Wish me luck guys!

By: 1Delu

1Delu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:26:57 +0000

Thanks for the clear information. I was looking for a software to manage my pdf files in my disk. I was totally confused by the flood of webservices and social nets…I will download Mendeley;( I can’t use Papers in Windows)
I have 1000s of pdf files.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:32:25 +0000

Hi Mohammed,

thanks for the nice words and sorry to hear that you are having some problems with Mendeley. Could you please send an e-mail to support@mendeley.com with the error description and your e-mail address? We can then have a look at it and fix the problem.

Thank you
Jan

By: Mohammed Iqbal

Mohammed Iqbal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:48:29 +0000

I hit upon mendeley couple of days back and found it extremely useful. Its really a very useful tool.

But I am having problems with the file import [I tried to import abt 350 PDFs, all text books organized in 15 folders ]. I tried uninstalling/installing couple of times, but the app hangs my IBM repeatedly!!

Problem occurs in startup when the app is trying to sync with web data server… and hang….

I am trying now to download a fresh copy but mendeley website is down!!

Victor. Advise please?? [I even increased physical memory to 1024]

By: Mendeley’s Klingon battle cruiser de-cloaks in London with the Last.fm for academia

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:12:27 +0000

[...] is a lengthy and expensive process. Mendeley already has 6,000 users and has completed a financing round of around $2m in [...]

By: Personal Value and Social Value « Kitten’s Thoughts

Personal Value and Social Value « Kitten’s Thoughts — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:35:10 +0000

[...] stuff you’ve been reading online), but the cost will be nominal. Mendeley is a business with funding and will eventually need to turn a profit. I’m not going to speculate as to what that means [...]

By: Arik

Arik — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:09:36 +0000

There is also a (some what) similar site that allows strictly college students to share and compare documents on a web 2.0 platform.

http://www.isle...hroughclass.com

By: Mendeley, réseau social pour les chercheurs, finaliste à la conférence Plugg « biogeekblog

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:17:48 +0000

[...] la communauté scientifique (voir les articles sur labmeeting, researchgate), la société vient de lever 2 M$ et de conclure un partenariat avec CiteULike, site de socialbookmark d’articles [...]

By: Job Offer: C++ Software Engineer (Central London, UK) at Mendeley (London, United Kingdom) | interlynked.com

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:10:29 +0000

[...] Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a start-up developing social software and Web 2.0 tools to transform the way science is done. We’re funded by and working with some of the people who built Skype and Last.fm, as well as prominent academics from world-class universities. Also TechCrunch has recently blogged about us (http://www.tech...earch-pa…). [...]

By: Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:00:16 +0000

Always nice to see more research tools being developed, but there is something very odd about that logo!!

By: Casey Chan MD

Casey Chan MD — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:03:31 +0000

You may be interested to have a look at WizFolio and compare the functionalities. WizFolio is skewed towards reference management and citations. It is completely web based using the latest Web 2.0 strategies. There are several time savers for researchers including locate PDFs, auto generation of bibliographic data after PDF upload, import references from clipboard and a powerful web clipper comparable to Evernote. http://www.wizfolio.com

Disclosure: I am a founder of WizFolio Web 2.0

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:38:52 +0000

if you are going to post a shameless plug at least preface it with : ’shameless plug’

By: Victor @ Mendeley.com

Victor @ Mendeley.com — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:46:47 +0000

Hi Jessica,

we (the founders) are researchers too, so we appreciate your concern.

First, when using Mendeley, only you choose with whom you share information – sharing is not public by default (although you can elect to make your library public).

Second, Mendeley’s main purpose is managing research papers that have already been published, rather than managing your own work-in-progress.

Best wishes,
Victor

By: Vivek Sonny Abraham

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:54:27 +0000

I have been tracking Mendeley for quite sometime, and I am not surprised at the speed with which they have come up. Congrats, guys!

Even before their major code rewrite, I was rooting for them, since they were the only cross-platform software which could auto-extract meta-data from PDFs. The shared libraries, the web-syncing of libraries, and other little goodies are just the icing on the cake.

Since then, they have gotten only better. I have been privileged to have been privy to some of their plans, and if they come through (which I am sure it will), Mendeley is going to be something that researchers can’t do without in the future!

By: » New research paper management tool: Mendeley OpenResearchBlog

» New research paper management tool: Mendeley OpenResearchBlog — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:20:26 +0000

[...] We’re happy to say that we’ve just gotten an investment from the people behind Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music to develop Mendeley further: http://www.tech...earch-pa…. [...]

By: Jessica, Castle Rock, CO

Jessica, Castle Rock, CO — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:51 +0000

“Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. ”

I´m a researcher myself. I can tell you from my experience that academic research is a pretty clandestine field. Nobody wants to share research results/research papers until the results of a study is finally published.

I see a big caveat here.

By: Neues zu Mendeley « Weissbier & Wissenschaft

Neues zu Mendeley « Weissbier & Wissenschaft — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:35:27 +0000

[...] Mendeley hat Investoren gefunden und kann nun mit einem Kapital von 2 Mio. $ sicherlich etwas beruhigter an die Weiterentwicklung [...]

By: Bruce D'Arcus

Bruce D'Arcus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:01:48 +0000

That’s what Zotero effectively is.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:44:27 +0000

I think Mendeley is geared towards managing bibliographies, and less about organizing small research labs.

If you’re looking for a Basecamp/ Backpack for scientists, then Lab Engine (http://www.labenginehq.com) might be of interest to you. The first release just went out and we’re looking for beta testers!

Disclaimer: I’m the founder of Lab Engine.

By: scottk

scottk — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:56:51 +0000

What’s the business model here? How is Mendeley going to make money?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:56:15 +0000

Definetely the best search engine for academics is to be found on http://www.researchgate.net. You can search more than 30.000.000 documents there, ten times as much as via Mendeley, and a semantic algorithm ensures that the results are exactly those you looked for. You can even upload a whole abstract to look for related papers. Furthermore ResearchGATE offers lots of cutting-edge tools to collaborate with co-researchers. Check it out!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:17:13 +0000

We’re upstream from the research, helping researchers and their teams prepare and submit the federal research grant application to Grants.gov (for the federal dollars). Check out Cayuse and Subawards.com.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:20:25 +0000

Zotero does great academic document management in a Firefox plug in. They aren’t as savvy with the social networking but the integration into fire Fox makes it super easy to use. They recommend portable Firefox and file syncing to allow distributed access.

I could picture this being good for small groups to create knowledge repositories. Sort of like backpack but more optimized for research.

By: Bessie

Bessie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:39:34 +0000

I’m a humanities student, so tools with a heavy science focus are not often useful to me.
I also have many of the common problems shared by academics:
1. I have a number of PDFs that need to be managed, and linked to their metadata
2. I have to be able to easily insert metadata into work that I am writing,
3. I’d like to be able to grab citation information and PDFs from the web in only a few clicks.

None of the tools I have found really achieve all those, but Mendeley is the only one that plans to. Endnote, Zotero, and CiteULike are great for citation collection and management, but don’t really cut it when it comes to a large PDF library.
Papers is mac only.

Other features like social networking, sharing academic papers, archiving and annotating webpages are often useful, but are not really central to an academic.

Mendeley’s significance cannot be overstated, it is the only cross platform tool that intends to address all of an academics referencing and paper management problems.

By: Victor @ Mendeley.com

Victor @ Mendeley.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:46:11 +0000

Hi Matt,

yes, that’s been fixed. You can now import multiple PDFs, entire folders, or even continuously monitor folders and subfolders for new files which will then be added to your library automatically.

Best,
Victor