A 26-person team in London created Mendeley to address two problems in scientific research: 1) The manual work of reading, retaining, and citing hundreds of papers; and 2) The lack of social and collaborative tools to share research. Mendeley automates document management on desktops and allows research papers to be shared and discussed online. After 15 months of public beta testing, over 27 million research papers and 500 million references have been uploaded to Mendeley by researchers from top institutions around the world. Mendeley provides real-time statistics on paper usage that are important metrics for scientific careers, jobs, funding, and prestige.

1. www.mendeley.com

2. A London-based team of 26 researchers and software developers from... Supported by: ...backed by co-founders and former executives of:

3. We are solving two productivity problems in individual and collaborative scientific research.

4. 1) Every researcher needs to read, retain, & cite hundreds of papers, Mendeley automates desktop document management. but it’s mostly manual work.

5. 2) Research is inherently social (“Standing on the shoulders of giants”), but the tools and data aren’t.

6. 2) Research is inherently social (“Standing on the shoulders of giants”), Mendeley turns research documents into social objects in the cloud. but the tools and data aren’t.

7. We’re building a crowdsourced research database with a unique layer of social & real-time usage stats.

8. works like this: 3) Last.fm builds your music profile... and the world‘s biggest open music database 1) Install “Audioscrobbler” 2) Listen to music

9. Mendeley Last.fm research libraries music libraries artists researchers songs papers genres disciplines

10. Mendeley works like this: 3) Mendeley aggregates research data in the cloud 1) Install Mendeley Desktop 2) Read & write papers

11. 27m research papers (and >500m references) uploaded: After 15 months in public beta (v0.9):

12. Top 15 institutions using Mendeley: University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London Harvard University University College London University of Oxford University of Edinburgh University of Michigan Max Planck Society UC Berkeley Cornell University Princeton University University of Wisconsin Columbia University After 15 months in public beta (v0.9):

13. Why real-time stats matter to science Scientific careers Jobs Grant Funding Tenure Prestige The “Impact Factor“

14. PLoSONE ranked as 5th most read biological sciences journal on Mendeley Mendeley Real-Time Stats:

15. Dr. Peter Binfield, Editor of PLoS ONE: Mendeley Real-Time Stats: Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com

16. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method ... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database

17. How Mendeley will support the workflow: Reference/PDFManagement Writing/Bibliographies Search/Recommendations Collaboration

18. www.mendeley.com