Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley Desktop is a free reference management program. The software is an effective solution for managing and sharing research papers, finding research information and supporting online teamwork.

Mendeley Desktop helps you create reference lists and organize research materials easily.

Main features of Mendeley Desktop:

• Create a personal reference list by automatically extracting document details and citing references from PDF files, and automatically updating additional information from other web sites.
• Support electronic library capable of storing up to 2 GB of documents and research information.
• Read, search full text, add notes, and highlight PDF research documents with the integrated PDF viewer.

• Synchronize reference lists through multiple tools, share lists with colleagues, manage lists online, or embed lists on blogs and websites.
• Quickly quote text in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Write and create a reference list with a simple mouse click.
• Web Importer feature allows citations from websites or by synchronizing with CiteULike's reference list, Mendeley is compatible with all popular browsers.

• Automatically extract information from PDF research documents on a computer.
• Sync your digital library with your Mendeley account across computers.
• Library management of online documents.
• Full text search for all research papers.

• Arrange the library as a playlist, supports smart filtering and tagging reference items.
• Automatic renaming of PDF files and sorting using an organizer.
• Create, insert citations and reference folders in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer.
• Mendeley will automatically abbreviate the publisher's name when creating quotes in the chosen style. Mendeley provides a set of rules that abbreviate the names of most publishers. You can adjust this feature by going to View -> Citation Styles> Journal Abbreviations .
• Search related content: find related content based on certain documents in the library. Select a few documents or an entire folder and click the Related button on the toolbar to get related information.

Update to the latest Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley Desktop 1.19.3

• You can now export the PDF with comments

The publisher has fixed the following errors:

• In the library:
  • The 'Read' column has been restored in the Recently Read viewer.
  • Applications no longer hang when backing up automatically.
  • Move captions after creating them.
  • Comments are no longer displayed as 'Unknown user' in all output comments.
• In the MS Word Citation plugin
  • Fixed a bug causing users to receive the error message 'Range cannot be deleted' (6028).
  • Accurately combine citations in areas other than the text content.
  • The exact error message is now displayed when you try to insert citations or folders in prohibited areas.
  • Bug fixes to improve performance.
• In the plugin cited LibreOffice
  • Citations in the post and footer no longer overlap when in the table.