This document proposes a 10-minute presentation about Mendeley, a research collaboration tool that extracts metadata from papers and allows researchers to organize, annotate, and collaborate on their work. Mendeley anonymously aggregates usage data to provide social metrics and insights into research trends. Within 18 months, Mendeley grew to over 400,000 users and 30 million research entries, on track to become the largest open academic database. It has overcome challenges to create a stable tool for large numbers of users and is working to further enrich its data through mining activities.