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Web site: http://www.mendeley.com/
Date of first review/ name of reviewer: 6/3/09 (Olivia Meyer)
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Produced by: Mendeley Limited
Cost: Free
Description: "free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics.”
Platform: Web-based
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Maturity: Beta 0.6
Features:
- Organize research materials into a personal library and sort based on different categories such as title, author, or tags
- Assign tags to materials
- Create groups of users to collaborate on research projects
- Search other users by name or specialty
- Collect information from a variety of sites including EBSCO, Amazon, Google Scholar and more
- Build a profile page that shows resume, grants and awards
- Tracks statistics by authors read and specialty
Advantages:
- Import libraries from EndNote and many other academic bibliography programs
- Web-based library can be accessed from any computer
- Track statistics about general use on the site and specific items that relate to personal use
- Site is easy to navigate
- Global users are diverse in location and education level
Disadvantages:
- Few users means there is not a lot of data on research trends
- There are very few free articles, site mostly contains abstracts or links
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