wants to help researchers manage, share, and discover academic knowledge.
We are 15 researchers, graduates and software developers from......backed by co- founders and former executives of:
but the tools and data aren’t. Research is inherently social (“Standing on the shoulders of giants”), The problem:
works like this: 1) Install “Audioscrobbler” 2) Listen to music 3) Last.fm builds your music profile... and the world‘s biggest open music database
music libraries artists songs genres research libraries researchers papers disciplines Last.fm Mendeley
Mendeley Web Mendeley combines: Mendeley Desktop
1) Automatic extraction of metadata, full-text, references from papers
2) Full-text searching, tagging, bibliographies Mendeley Desktop
3) Sharing and sync‘ing of research libraries 1) Automatic extraction of metadata, full-text, references from papers 2) Full-text searching, tagging, bibliographies
1) Online back-up & access of research library Mendeley Web Mendeley Desktop 3) Sharing and sync‘ing of research libraries 1) Automatic extraction of metadata, full-text, references from papers 2) Full-text searching, tagging, bibliographies
Mendeley Web 1) Online back-up & access of research library 2) One-click import from databases and websites
Mendeley Web 1) Online back-up & access of research library 2) One-click import from databases and websites 3) Recommendations*, research trends and stats by author, paper, discipline *working on it!
Our users: MIT Stanford University University of Michigan University of Edinburgh Cambridge University Cornell University University of Cologne RWTH Aachen Dartmouth College University of Wisconsin Fraunhofer Institute Harvard University ETH Zurich University of Berkeley University of Southampton University College Dublin Columbia University Oxford University Trinity College Dublin Max Planck Society After 5 months in public beta (version 0.6):
Research papers uploaded: After 5 months in public beta (version 0.6):
How Mendeley is starting to influence science
Scientific careers Jobs Grant Funding Tenure Prestige The “Impact Factor“
Based on 172,000 research papers tracked: PLoS ONE at no. 5
Editor of PLoS ONE:
Real-time impact & actual usage instead of citations
Mendeley can provide usage-based impact factors of research papers: Audience/reach of research papers Reading time and repeat readings per paper Quality ratings, “post- publication peer review” All of this in real-time, available by academic discipline, geographic region, academic status...
So what‘s ahead?
Search/ Recommendations Reference/PDF Management Collaboration Writing/ Bibliographies
Reference/PDF Management PDF viewing, mark- up and annotation, both in Mendeley Desktop and on Mendeley Web OpenURL / SFX support
Reference/PDF Management Writing/ Bibliographies Word/OO integration on all platforms LaTeX integration
Reference/PDF Management Collaboration Writing/ Bibliographies Group/Lab Management online Sync with CiteULike, Zotero, 2collab
Reference/PDF Management Collaboration Writing/ Bibliographies Search/ Recommendations Full-text search in Mendeley & other databases Related articles Statistics queries
STM publishing: €13.5bn Scientific information services: €16bn Academic/knowledge management software: €61bn The market: 145 million academic/corporate researchers, students, consultants
The business model: Premium features Custom statistics More server space More detailed recommendations Research reports... “iTunes” for research papers Corporate/institutional version