
Integrates with MS Word to create/format in-text citations and reference lists? Discount also available at the Cal Student Store Student discount available: Downloadable version : $77 CD $10 additional charge. All of these applications are completely separate of each other and do not work together. See table for comparisons.īack to top Tabular Comparison of Features: All are different variations of research and bibliographies. Mendeley is similar to Zotero, EndNote, and RefWorks. Zotero users think the best solution would be for these two applications to team up into one. Mendeley is always coming up with new ideas and improving their application. Current Zotero users belive that Zotero is better, but they see Mendeley has taking over. Many Mendeley and Zotero users find these 2.0 tools similar. How Mendeley Relates to other Applications The Guardian has also ranked Mendeley sixth in "The Top 100 Tech Media Companies." As Mendeley continues to grow and improve, winning more awards and honors is to be expected.īack to top II. In 2009, it won "European Start-up of the Year" from and "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society" from TechCrunch Europas. They liked the idea of being compared to the analogies, "just as Gregor Mendel studied the inheritance of traits in plants, Mendeley will enable you to trace how new ideas and academic theories evolve and cross pollinate each other, and Dimitri Mendeleyev formed the periodic table based on the properties of known elements, then used this data to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered." The idea of Mendeley is to help you discover new literature based on the known elements in the library, like these two famous scientists did.ĭuring its short life span, Mendeley has already received many awards. The creators of Mendeley developed the name by combining the names of Dimitri Ivaniovich Mendeleyev, who developed the periodic table, and Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics.

Groups of researchers, graduates, and open source developers came from a variety of well-known institutions, such as Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University to jumpstart Mendeley. It also had investors from Last.fm, Skype, and Warner Music Company involved in its development. The first public beta version was released in August 2008. Among others, Mendeley has three features that are It is very user friendly and has many useful features that make research less time consuming by allowing easy search facilities and referencing aids. It also allows you to organize electronic articles and citations and share your work with colleagues. It is becoming one of the biggest research databases in the world. Founded in November 2007 by Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt, and Paul Föckler. Mendeley is a research management tool that oragnizes research documents while letting you share and discover other research papers.

Mendeley add on mozilla keyboard shortcuts Patch#
Please ignore the current patch for now and consider the above only. Firefox uses Ctrl+A for the Add-on Manager, so this would be consistent (I put this point last on purpose).

Alt+Shift+A is already used on Unix/Linux, so achieving consistency there would also mean less confusion.ĥ. Alt+Shift shortcuts are semi-reserved for website shortcuts (accesskey HTML attribute) which are more likely to appear in content opened in the browser (any website) than MailNews (feeds only)Ĥ. As is Select Thread (contrary to Select).ģ. People who use add-ons open the Add-on Manager quite frequently, from whichever module they're currently in (say, browser or MailNews).Ģ. So, here some thoughts why I think making Select Thread Alt+Shift+A on all platforms and making Ctrl+A open the Add-on Manager is the way to go:ġ.

> But it's Mnyromyr's module, so he gets final say -) The only idea I could come up with was to move select thread to Shift+A.
