Longtime ProfHacker readers will already be familiar with Mendeley, the collaboration-based research manager launched in 2009. Last summer, Julie wrote an introduction to “Using Mendeley for Research Management, which found much to commend while also noticing that the userbase for Mendeley tilts toward the sciences, whereas the userbase for Zotero tilts toward the humanities. Even Zotero users might be interested in Mendeley’s iOS app, however, as Mark has shown how to use it to access Zotero libraries from an iPad.

Today, Mendeley has released the 1.0 version of their cross-platform desktop software, which had already been downloaded over 1 million times during the beta. Those users have so far uploaded over 100 million papers to its collective library. The software makes compiling bibliographies incredibly easy, as it tries to extract bibliographic data from both upload articles an…

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