Mendeley

Mendeley (www.mendeley.com) helps to manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software for managing and sharing research papers. Mendeley Web is a free research network which lets you manage research papers online, discover trends and connect to like-minded researchers. Mendeley tracks usage data about research papers in real-time, thus creating a network of people using and sharing millions of scholarly articles - helping to shift research into the 21st century world of collaboration and openness. Mendeley is engendering a revolution in the way research is conducted and disseminated, changing the face of science.

Mendeley's first public beta was released at the end of 2008, and has since been adopted by academics at leading universities, such as Stanford, Cambridge and MIT. It has won Plugg.eu's "European Start-up of the Year" Award 2009 and TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society" Award 2009. The company's investors and advisors include former founders and executives of Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music Group, as well as academics from Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University, and is supported by Eurostars, a R&D initiative funded by the European Community and UK's Technology Strategy Board. The company is based in London.