Mendeley

Last updated Feb 24, 2024

Strengths:

• Free of charge (up to 2 GB)
• Available for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Desktop and web based version
• Extras: very good collaboration in groups and extensive social software functions, analysis in Altmetrics services, research catalog for e.g. literature recommendations, integration/ synchronization of citations from other literature management programs and social-bookmarking-services
• You can read PDFs when offline.

Weaknesses:

• No Pages (Mac) linkages
• No ISBN-Lookup
• Fee-based extension of memory space
• Mendeley-Web-Account necessary for desktop version
• Problems with mutated vowels at import

Target group:

• All target groups
• Students and scientists especially of medicine and science
• Focus on exchange and social network

Support:

•   Manual
•   Tutorial