Updated on 22 Feb 2022 with new details and timelines.

Whether organizing research, annotating articles, generating a bibliography or sharing references, Mendeley has been in that location to help ease the workflow of millions of researchers around the world. Using valuable feedback from our users, nosotros have adult a completely new build of the reference manager that is more than resilient, streamlined and intuitive – and we tin't wait for you to try it.

Do more with Mendeley

Mendeley Reference Manager simplifies your entire referencing workflow and provides what you lot need to stay organized and focused on what matters – your inquiry. Mendeley Cite, an add-in for Microsoft Word, makes citing seamless. Together they brand storing, organizing, annotating, sharing and citing references more efficient than always before.

Effort the new Mendeley to:

  • Piece of work in different locations with identical desktop and spider web versions
  • Insert citations seamlessly while writing – without having to leave your certificate
  • Enjoy peace of mind with automated sync, knowing that your latest changes are ever backed upward in the cloud
  • Collaborate with others in real fourth dimension – automated sync enables sharing and annotating papers alongside team members in private groups
  • Experience the reliability of software regularly updated with new features and releases

A closer await

Mendeley's new reference direction suite consists of three integrated applications that together provide you with a unmarried, powerful solution.

Mendeley Reference Manager – Installed on your desktop or as a spider web application, you can hands organize all your references in ane library using collections and tags, and find important references quickly with keyword search and filtering. The built-in notebook helps y'all keep your thoughts organized in ane place. Create notebook pages for different topics and use them to collect annotations and highlighted text from PDFs equally you read them. Create and participate in private groups from within the app and share resource and annotations efficiently with a team. You can switch seamlessly betwixt desktop and web versions of the reference manager for convenient access to your research on any computer.

Mendeley Cite – Generate citations and bibliographies and change citation style in just a few clicks with the new Mendeley Cite add-in for Microsoft Word. Your whole certificate remains visible while finding, selecting and inserting references – you no longer demand to switch back and forth between your library, the commendation console and what yous're writing. What'due south more, because your library is stored in the cloud, Mendeley Cite works fifty-fifty without the desktop version of Mendeley Reference Manager existence installed. Compatible with Microsoft® Role 365, Microsoft Word versions 2016 and newer, the Microsoft Word app for iPad® and the complimentary Microsoft Discussion for the web, Mendeley Cite offers users a range of options, and we will continue to expand these in the future.

Mendeley Web Importer – Adding this extension to your browser enables you to easily build your library of references as you search online. Access full-text research with i click where available, and spend less time navigating and more than time building your knowledgebase.

The three applications are fully integrated – your collections are visible and searchable throughout your workflow so that you lot can quickly and efficiently build, manage and cite from your library. Because all three are available on a broad range of platforms and spider web browsers, you have the flexibility to work how and where you want.

The new Mendeley suite also has a clearer, more intuitive look and functionality, and then that you lot can get upward and running quickly and manage your references with ease.

How to upgrade

Mendeley Desktop users tin endeavour Mendeley Reference Manager's desktop app worry-free – both applications tin can be installed on your computer at the same time. Fix to explore the new Mendeley? Here's how:

  1. Sync your existing library in Mendeley Desktop
  2. Download and install Mendeley Reference Manager
  3. Open the new reference manager, and sign in using your existing Mendeley credentials

That's it! With those simple steps, y'all are fix to apply a more powerful version of Mendeley.

Mendeley Reference Manager will supersede Mendeley Desktop in the long run

As part of the connected evolution of Mendeley, from 1 September 2022, users will no longer exist able to download and install Mendeley Desktop software. Existing users of Mendeley Desktop volition continue to be able to sign into, use and sync their Mendeley Desktop.

Longer-term, once nosotros are confident that the new Mendeley Reference Director sufficiently meets your reference management needs, we volition begin the procedure of stopping all sign-ins to Mendeley Desktop. Nosotros will be sure to give you enough of notice earlier this happens.

We want to hear from you

Listening to Mendeley's user base has been a critical function of developing the new Mendeley applications. Considering we understand that your needs evolve, the product team is always eager to hear from you, then we tin continue to build a Mendeley that supports you. Send u.s. your feedback, ideas and suggestions anytime from within the apps, or via the link below.

Nosotros are regularly releasing updates for the new Mendeley applications, which helps united states progressively integrate your feedback and suggestions. It besides ensures that bugs are stock-still apace and updates to approved third-party software are implemented in a timely style. Our aim is to provide a smooth experience for Mendeley users, and then your attention tin stay focused on your research.

The Mendeley team values the opportunity to provide solutions that assist researchers do their vital work more hands and efficiently. We are proud to be a trusted partner to and so many researchers around the world, and committed to supporting you and your research today – and into the futurity.

Attempt the new Mendeley Reference Manager now.

Your feel matters

Nosotros welcome your feedback nearly the new Mendeley Reference Manager. While we will be unable to respond individually, your message volition be reviewed by our team and suggestions may be added in future releases. Provide feedback.

Concentrating our services on the tools that are providing the about value towards our users' work – reference management, enquiry information management and commendation solutions. What does information technology mean for the Mendeley Community?

At Mendeley, we aim to help researchers work fifty-fifty more than efficiently so they can spend their time making discoveries.

As Head of Reference Direction Laura Thomson says:

"Nosotros want to take reference management off researchers' minds past making all the tasks related to collecting, organizing, reading, annotating and citing as simple as possible."

To ensure nosotros are supporting researchers every bit effectively as we tin, we regularly review what our users show the states and tell us they need and value virtually.

Based on our evolving understanding of our customers' needs, Mendeley is increasing its focus on its core reference management, research data management and citation tools.

In recent months, we have made many improvements:

  • The new Mendeley Reference Managing director now features real-time sync of a user's document library to the cloud, and then that there's no delay in seeing changes fabricated to their library across all their devices.
  • We congenital a new citation add-in, Mendeley Cite, as a standalone extension for Microsoft Give-and-take then that information technology can additionally exist used in the browser with Office 365 and with Word for iPad without the Mendeley Desktop app.
  • Our refreshed Mendeley Spider web Importer now leverages Mendeley's catalog of open access links as well as industry partnerships such as GetFTR to help maximize convenient access to full texts and salve researchers even more time in importing them to their libraries.
  • Mendeley Data has expanded coverage to more than than 25 million datasets over 2000 data repositories, making researcher data even more findable and citable.

To focus on providing the all-time possible service and feel for the users of these tools, we will simplify Mendeley and retire the following features from December 2020:

  • Mendeley Feed and Public Groups
  • Mendeley Profiles
  • Mendeley Funding

Our customers can observe out more nearly what this means for them on this page in our Support Center which we'll be keeping regularly updated.

The new Mendeley Reference Director is at present available and we will continually better the tool based the feedback of our users. Mendeley Desktop continues to exist supported and we remain committed to our Mendeley Institutional Edition customers. Mendeley has e'er had open up public APIs, and we maintain these as part of our commitment to interoperability, which is one of our four cadre principles, together with source neutrality, transparency and user control.

Mendeley exists because every researcher faces challenges with building their knowledge, being personally organized and efficiently preparing manufactures for submission. We continue our core mission of defended support to researchers in achieving these goals and intend to keep Mendeley available costless of charge.

Mendeley has been helping researchers simplify their workflow and advance their enquiry for many years now, and we look forrard to continuing to exercise this for many years to come up.

– Rose 50'Huillier, EVP Researcher Products

Mendeley Web Importer Chrome DesktopFor the past decade, Mendeley Web Importer has been vital for busy researchers, making it easy to add articles from across the internet to their reference library.

Today, nosotros're pleased to announce an all-new version, with new features and a refreshed blueprint. The new Mendeley Web Importer is available for both Google Chrome and Firefox.

What's new?

Rebuilt for reliability and flexibility

Mendeley Web Importer has been completely rebuilt to ensure rock-solid reliability in finding relevant references and uploading them to your Mendeley library.

The new version also lets you lot get on with other work while uploads are in progress. It can go along uploading PDFs to your Mendeley library even if you close the window or switch tabs.

Preview the full text before adding information technology to your library

Everyone's workflow is dissimilar. If you prefer to scan the full text before deciding to add information technology to your Mendeley library, now you lot can simply select 'View PDF' in the Mendeley Spider web Importer interface. The PDF will open within Elsevier's enhanced PDF reader, adding navigational shortcuts and clickable elements to the full texts. More enhancements are planned too, so keep an middle out for future announcements.

Mendeley Web Importer preview PDF

Organize your PDFs into collections and share them with groups

The redesigned interface makes it clearer and easier to add references straight to the collections and groups in your Mendeley library. Mendeley Web Importer now besides remembers the terminal collection you selected, saving you time.

Get more full texts than e'er before

We've introduced new technology to enable the retrieval of even more than full-text PDFs. That means that when yous use Mendeley Web Importer, y'all tin can have total confidence that you're getting everything y'all demand.

If your account is authenticated to a registered institutional network, Mendeley Web Importer too retrieves full texts from publisher sites, including ScienceDirect, Wiley Online, Taylor and Francis Online, and SpringerLink.

Huge accessibility improvements

It's important that everyone can navigate Mendeley Spider web Importer in the manner that's best for them. If the keyboard is the right tool for y'all, you can now simply select either Ctrl-Shift-S on your PC or Cmd-Shift-S on your Mac to import references and full texts using only the keyboard.

No more waiting for version updates

Websites modify all the time. To ensure constant compatibility, nosotros have a responsive development strategy for Mendeley Web Importer.

To ensure your version doesn't fall backside, pregnant a sub-optimal feel for you, we now automatically pour updates to your browser equally soon as they are bachelor.

Go started with Mendeley Web Importer

To go started, simply visit world wide web.mendeley.com/reference-management/spider web-importer.

For Google Chrome, if you already have the earlier version of Mendeley Spider web Importer installed, the new version will overwrite the existing version automatically.

For Firefox, you will need to uninstall the previous version and install the new 1.

We expect to release ports to Microsoft Border and Safari subsequently in 2020.

What's next?

The new Mendeley Spider web Importer is designed to save you time and simplify your inquiry workflow.

We always welcome your feedback on how to ameliorate our solutions and services, then do let us know your thoughts on the new Mendeley Web Importer using our feedback form or using the 'Transport feedback' link in the new Web Importer settings folio.

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Mendeley Web Importer is just one of Mendeley's reference management tools available to help you build your knowledge. Find out more nearly reference management from Mendeley here.

Looking for advice on effectively edifice your knowledgebase? Take a look at this Elsevier Connect article on central steps to collecting and organizing research.