Mendeley
The free all-in-one reference manager for your research workflow

Mendeley is a reference management tool that helps researchers and students organize academic papers, generate citations, and sync their research libraries. It offers PDF annotation, tagging, and collections to keep research organized in one place. Recent AI features help users find insights, uncover patterns, and understand documents more efficiently.
Users add PDFs to a cloud library, organize them with tags and collections, annotate and highlight documents, and use AI to surface insights and generate references.
Researchers, academics, and students
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Elsevier
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