Category: design research tools

• Managing your library the modern way with tags and filters.

  As the year gets to the end, everyone writes “Best of” lists for the past year. I thought I would do something similar, but since we’re at the end of not only a year, but a decade, it’s worthwhile to reflect on the changes in how people manage and organize their increasingly digital stores of…

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  drgunn

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  December 17, 2010

  1–2 minutes

• One on one with Bruce D'Arcus, creator of the community-driven Citation Style Language

  Most of our users know that Mendeley can format citations automatically in most word processors. Some may not realize, however, that this bit of magic wasn’t developed entirely by us. Rather, we use tools that were created by a global community of academics and released for everyone to use. I recently had a conversation with…

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  drgunn

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  December 9, 2010

  1–2 minutes

• Our first iPhone app has Arrived!

  I’m thrilled to announce that we have launched our first iPhone app, and it’s free Yay!  You can head over to the app store and grab it here. This is our first app for the iPhone, and we have decided to start with a free ‘lite’ version app so that you can get the benefits right…

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  Ian Mulvany

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  July 21, 2010

  2–3 minutes

• An organized folder is a sign of a… file organizer

  As a PhD student I find myself roaming the Internet quite a bit in search of literature for my research project which can be really time consuming. Looking for the right keywords, opening each relevant result into a new tab, downloading each paper of interest, finding the cryptically named PDF file and then adding it…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  April 6, 2010

  3–4 minutes

• The top 10 journal articles published in 2009 by readership on Mendeley

  Having seen a lot of ‘top 10 lists of 2009’ around, we thought we’d throw in our two cents and give you the top 10 most read articles on Mendeley, published in 2009! The top paper for 2009 was written by Uri Alon, entitled: ‘How to choose a good scientific problem’, published in the journal…

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  victorhenning

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  January 28, 2010

  3–5 minutes