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Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley Desktop
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Mendeley Desktop free download for Mac

Mendeley Desktop

Version 1.19.8

Research management tool.

3.5
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Mendeley Desktop overview

Mendeley Desktop is a free research-management tool for desktop and Web, designed for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data, and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application, with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers.

Highlights:
  • Access your library, everywhere - add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers
  • Easy referencing - generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks
  • Build your Research network - 30 million references and over 6 million researchers to discover. Our personalised recommendations makes staying up to date easy
  • Career development and funding - 172,785 science and technology jobs to advance your career. Grant information from over 2,000 organizations to launch your research project

What’s new in version 1.19.8

Updated on Mar 23 2021

Version 1.19.8:
  • Complete list of changes can be found here

Information

License

Free

Size

108.9 MB

Downloads

56904

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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Dr-Sparks
Dr-Sparks
Oct 30 2020
1.19.5
0.0
Oct 30 2020
0.0
Version: 1.19.5
I note a couple of strange things here. Presently, this is at the top: "Mendeley Desktop - 1.19.5 - 03 May 2019". But what downloads both here and at the Developer website linked to above is actually Version 1.19.4 of 08 April, 2019. And just as strange: The "Complete list of changes can be found here" linked to above tells us that Mendeley Desktop v1.19.6 (no date indicated) is the latest Stable Release. I find it hard to trust a developer with such a mess at their website.
AnnL7456
AnnL7456
May 14 2018
1.17.13
1.0
May 14 2018
1.0
Version: 1.17.13
Mendeley is [1] a reference manager for MS Word, OpenOffice and LibreOffice and [2] an academic social network. After downloading the desktop application, you MUST create a (free) online account before you can start using the application. Although it's not strictly required, you can upload your references and grant other users access to them. This is of course fine if you want to collaborate with others. You can also create research groups for your particular research field. Although you don't upload anything yourself, you can still search and download references from the mutual online pool.

I searched for a famous book which was first published in 1943 and which has been reprinted innumerable times since then. To my surprise the book itself wasn't there, but instead I found scholarly journal articles ABOUT the book.

Citation plugins for MS Word, OpenOffice (?) and LibreOffice need to be installed/activated extra. If you use other and better word processors such as Nisus Writer Pro, Mellel or Scrivener, you're completely out of luck: there seems to be no easy way to enter citations and automatically create bibliographies in anything else than in Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. You can do it manually by copy and paste, of course, but who would want to do that? Zotero doesn't have this glaring omission. For this reason I give Mendeley only 1 star. For citations and bibliographies I recommend Bookends. It's extremely versatile and has the best support I have ever experienced by any software company.
Eric•Woehler
Eric•Woehler
Dec 7 2016
1.17.6
0.0
Dec 7 2016
0.0
Version: 1.17.6
Started using this to organise my PDF collection (12+GB) of scientific papers etc then gave up when realised Mendeley's free library and associated services was limited to 1 GB and anything beyond that required subscription. So still looking for alternative. Mendeley great for small PDF libraries, and probably ok for larger libraries of PDFs, but not for me
Ari-Tj
Ari-Tj
Jun 1 2016
1.15.1
2.5
Jun 1 2016
2.5
Version: 1.15.1
There are 4 updates since v1.15.1: v1.15.2, v1.15.3, v1.16, v1.16.1.
Ari-Tj
Ari-Tj
Jun 1 2016
1.15.1
2.5
Jun 1 2016
2.5
Version: 1.15.1
There are 4 updates since v1.15.1: v1.15.2, v1.15.3, v1.16, v1.16.1.
iMiNiMaL
iMiNiMaL
May 6 2015
1.11
4.0
May 6 2015
4.0
Version: 1.11
There is a new release version 1.13.8 in their official website.
Ari-Tj
Ari-Tj
Mar 20 2015
1.11
2.5
Mar 20 2015
2.5
Version: 1.11
There is a new version (1.13.5) listed in their official site.
Neil-M
Neil-M
Sep 30 2014
1.11
0.0
Sep 30 2014
0.0
Version: 1.11
I've given up on the Mendeley apps. I'm using Papership for Mendeley now. It's giving access to both my Mendeley and Zotero libraries. There are apps for both Mac and iOS - supports annotation (additional purchase inside iOS version). Strangely Papership is not listed on MU. http://www.papershipapp.com
werkplekbeheer
werkplekbeheer
May 2 2013
1.8
0.0
May 2 2013
0.0
Version: 1.8
Mendeley Desktop 1.8.4 is available at the developers' site
Nontroppo
Nontroppo
Apr 15 2013
1.8
2.0
Apr 15 2013
2.0
Version: 1.8
Hugely disappointed with Mendeley. With Connotea closing down, I switched to citeulike and Mendeley to keep my discovered scientific articles up-to-date. Mendeley used to sync with citeulike, but it has changed its API and this no longer works. Its bookmarklet is much weaker than citeulike's, with no clear tagging autofill and a worse workflow. The desktop app doesn't allow me to fill in missing information by doing a DOI search, but forces me to manually add info unless its first PDF scan was OK. Database management is non-existent. I want to standardise on particular name and Journal formats, but no way to edit the database robustly. And you need very precarious hacks to get annotated Journal names. Mendeley takes quite a long time to sync and often hangs. But if Mendeley had a solid iPad version, its myriad flaws could be overlooked, but the mobile version of Mendeley is so utterly unstable, underpowered and slow + buggy it is unusable. Such a shame, Mendeley keeps getting lots of publicity, but it is so flawed and compromised I can't use it for its intended purpose.
DrJJWMac
DrJJWMac
Feb 27 2013
1.8
3.0
Feb 27 2013
3.0
Version: 1.8
This is a good, desktop citation management tool for PDFs. As noted, it is somewhat non-Mac compliant in behavior, as might be expected of cross-platform apps. It has many features in its own right, especially the cloud-based storage of citations for collaborative or on-the-go workflow. It is rather easy to use, if somewhat encumbered by its lack of Mac-centric options for keyboard shortcuts and one-click operations. Unfortunately, WRT on-the-go workflow, the current iPad version (1.3.4) sucks. It is basically just a glorified and buggy viewer for the PDF Mendeley files. This downfall makes on-the-go management of PDF citations via Mendeley practically worthless. If you definitely need this functionality as well, look elsewhere for the time being.
Ari-Tj
Ari-Tj
Jan 24 2013
1.5.2
2.5
Jan 24 2013
2.5
Version: 1.5.2
Version 1.8 is available directly from the official web site.
Mikoi
Mikoi
Jun 14 2012
1.1
4.0
Jun 14 2012
4.0
Version: 1.1
New Version is 1.5.1. Get it from there http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/?_section=footer
myschizobuddy-1
myschizobuddy-1
Aug 29 2011
0.9.8.2
0.0
Aug 29 2011
0.0
Version: 0.9.8.2
The current version is 1.0.1 get it from Mendeley website
xcoxco
xcoxco
Dec 10 2010
0.9.7.1
0.0
Dec 10 2010
0.0
Version: 0.9.7.1
How well does Mendeley work with either Pages or Mellel, as compared with MS-Word? We abandoned Word for serious writing long ago.
Big-Mac-XXL
Big-Mac-XXL
Sep 1 2010
0.9.7.1
5.0
Sep 1 2010
5.0
Version: 0.9.7.1
This is a very nice Papers clone. It is freeware. If you want some higher end features using the Mendeley server you need to pay for them (this is only fair). MD is available for Mac, Linux, Windows - great for collaboration! Some glitches are: no full screen PDF modus. Opening PDFs only by double clicking, no keybord command. Display not using Apple's OSX-built-in technology but an inferior PDF display looking only slightly better than the terrible Adobe Reader PDF display. Mendeley Desktop has organize options also for books and other documents, it is not limited to magazines/papers like Papers. I would recommend MD to all users who don't want to pay for Papers and can live with the mediocre PDF display. In many parts Mendeley is much more flexible than Papers. Try it out!
Jon-Stovell
Jon-Stovell
Aug 8 2010
0.9.7.1
0.0
Aug 8 2010
0.0
Version: 0.9.7.1
It looks good, but I wish it could work with Pages documents.
prLab
prLab
Feb 4 2010
0.9.5.2
5.0
Feb 4 2010
5.0
Version: 0.9.5.2
An excellent application, though with a few bugs in synching with the web. Instructions are not too clear, and they assume the user will have knowledge about proxys. But developer is responsive and answers questions. Should only improve. It's already led to me developing contacts with overseas researchers and receiving some good advice.
Punkish
Punkish
Nov 21 2009
0.9.4
4.0
Nov 21 2009
4.0
Version: 0.9.4
Possibly the best of the breed. Negative points: Not native Mac OS X (read, not Cocoa). Built with Qt, many controls are non-Mac like, and definitely are not polished. That said, it is not yet even version 1. Positive points: Everything else. The program does a pretty decent job of sucking in PDFs and recognizing their meta-data. If no meta-data, it tries to recognize main components of a paper -- the title, author(s), year, etc. Has a built in PDF reader and annotator with highlights and notes. Can format citations many different ways (styles), has plug-ins for OpenOffice/NeoOffice. Where it really shines is that it also has a web version which syncs with the desktop. The web presence is fully social-networks buzzword compliant with friends, colleagues, networks, RSS, stats, etc.
lsichamphone
lsichamphone
Sep 29 2023
1.19.8
5.0
Sep 29 2023
5.0
Version: 1.19.8
fallenflower
fallenflower
Sep 20 2023
1.19.8
1.0
Sep 20 2023
1.0
Version: 1.19.8
adamali1544
adamali1544
Sep 11 2023
1.19.8
5.0
Sep 11 2023
5.0
Version: 1.19.8
emanuelegiacomuzzo
emanuelegiacomuzzo
Apr 26 2023
1.19.8
2.0
Apr 26 2023
2.0
Version: 1.19.8
AnnL7456
AnnL7456
May 14 2018
1.0
May 14 2018
1.0
Version: null
Ari-Tj
Ari-Tj
Jun 1 2016
2.5
Jun 1 2016
2.5
Version: null
mugsuk
mugsuk
May 14 2015
3.0
May 14 2015
3.0
Version: null
iMiNiMaL
iMiNiMaL
May 6 2015
4.0
May 6 2015
4.0
Version: null
Nontroppo
Nontroppo
Apr 15 2013
2.0
Apr 15 2013
2.0
Version: null
DrJJWMac
DrJJWMac
Feb 27 2013
3.0
Feb 27 2013
3.0
Version: null
Macsimm
Macsimm
Sep 3 2012
4.0
Sep 3 2012
4.0
Version: null
Mikoi
Mikoi
Jun 14 2012
4.0
Jun 14 2012
4.0
Version: null
Fmj35
Fmj35
Oct 29 2011
3.0
Oct 29 2011
3.0
Version: null
T-ray
T-ray
Jul 21 2011
4.0
Jul 21 2011
4.0
Version: null
LucasH
LucasH
Apr 26 2011
5.0
Apr 26 2011
5.0
Version: null
Thomas-Lawton-ebaz
Thomas-Lawton-ebaz
Apr 8 2011
4.0
Apr 8 2011
4.0
Version: null
Michael-Chen
Michael-Chen
Mar 8 2011
4.0
Mar 8 2011
4.0
Version: null
Big-Mac-XXL
Big-Mac-XXL
Sep 1 2010
5.0
Sep 1 2010
5.0
Version: null
prLab
prLab
Feb 4 2010
5.0
Feb 4 2010
5.0
Version: null
Punkish
Punkish
Nov 21 2009
4.0
Nov 21 2009
4.0
Version: null
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