I am relaying this note posted to a newsgroup, supposing it may hold
some interest for you.
Brian W
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jan.reichelt@mendeley.com wrote:
> Hi Sci.Engr.Civil group,
>
> We are Jan and Victor, two doctoral students (University of Cologne
> and Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Germany) and the founders of
> Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com), a new free research paper
> management tool. Since you're probably all dealing with research
> papers and scholarly articles in civil engineering, we hoped it might
> be of interest if we told you about Mendeley.
>
> Mendeley is a combination of free academic software (available for
> Windows, Mac and Linux) and a Web 2.0 research network - both
> combined, they enable you
> - to manage and share your research papers,
> - to discover research trends, and
> - to connect with like-minded academics.
>
> You can have a look at the features here: http://www.mendeley.com/tour.
>
> We're happy to say that we've just gotten an investment from the
> people behind Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music to develop Mendeley
> further:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/mendeley-snags-2-million-in-early-stage-funding-for-research-paper-management-tool/.
>
> Additionally, we've started collaborating with CiteULike, the leading
> social bookmarking tool for researchers:
> http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/02/citeulike-and-mendeley-collaborate/.
>
> Academics at universities like Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia
> are recommending us to their colleagues (for example, see the user
> quotes on our homepage), and a number of librarians have already given
> us great reviews (e.g.
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/archives/2009/02/mendeley--resea.html
> or http://libguides.dartmouth.edu/content.php?pid=6051&sid=191840).
>
> Apologies for this mail if it doesn't interest you - but if it does,
> you'd be doing us a huge favour by helping us to spread the word. And
> if you'd like any further information or have feedback, please just
> let us know!
>
> Thanks and all the best,
> Jan + Victor
>
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jan-reichelt
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/victor-henning
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