Mendeley Reference Manager is a reference management application made to simplify your referencing workflow. And behind what you see, use and love is the Mendeley Team.
Today I’m excited to introduce a member of the Mendeley Team.
Hi, please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hello! I’m Marijn, and I work as a product manager at Mendeley. I joined Mendeley in April 2019, starting my journey with working on the new Mendeley Cite add-in. I have a passion for etymology and love learning about languages and their origins.
Thank you for your service.
What would you say is the most exciting part of your job?
I love problem solving, and we get to do a lot of that. I really enjoy working with the whole Mendeley team, especially listening to the feedback from our users and working with people to try and create an amazing product.
Wow, that’s amazing!
I have a couple of Mendeley Reference Manager related questions here for you to answer, so let’s get started.
What is your favourite feature in Mendeley Reference Manager:
I use collections quite heavily in my library to organise my personal and work-related articles. I also use the watched folder functionality a lot, it’s made importing much easier.
I also love watched folders; it’s definitely made my life easier.
I’m going to give a selection of features, please choose the one you feel most aligns with you based on the graphics you see below:
I would call myself a wingman; I love finding ways to add ease to my workflow. And I think it’s quite fitting because I use the watched folders feature a lot.
I think I’m a bit of a bookworm myself, all my friends say that I’m great at reading people. And because of the Mendeley Reference Manager reader, I also find it easy to read my articles.
What is something you want the users to know about Mendeley Reference Manager:
We’ve been working hard to improve the performance and reliability of Mendeley Reference Manager over the last year or so; we know this is important to our users. There’s still a lot more work that we want to do on this, and we are really excited and happy to see the impact and feedback we’ve been receiving from our users about the improvements they’ve noticed.
That’s fantastic to hear, I’m sure Mendeley users are also very excited. I have one last question for you.
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “The Future of Mendeley”:
This is something we’ve been thinking about a lot at Mendeley and it’s quite exciting. As I had mentioned above, we’re doing a lot to make Mendeley Reference Manager feel and work more reliably and quicker; we really want our users to trust Mendeley and be confident that the Mendeley Reference Manager is a great tool. Also, when talking about the future, we also have to discuss the topic of GenAI. We believe this technology will bring new and exciting changes to the researcher workflow, especially regarding reference management. We’re working hard behind the scenes at Mendeley, and we’ve got some really exciting things coming in the near future.
Wow, this indeed sounds so exciting! I can’t wait to see all of what we have in store and share it with our users. Thank you for joining me for this interview today.
Thank you for having me!
To know more about the future of Mendeley, and what we are currently doing, download Mendeley Reference Manager here.
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