This update introduces a lot of new features, including a PDF viewer, OpenOffice.org integration on Mac OSX and Linux, and many more. Interface issues, and a number of bugs are also addressed in this release, as well as improvements to the overall stability.

Just to give you a teaser – this is how it looks like to add notes to PDF documents:



New Features:

Built-in PDF viewer for viewing PDFs directly in Mendeley Desktop

Support for annotating PDF files (syncing notes to and from Mendeley Web is planned for the next release)

Many additional online lookups (CrossRef, PubMed, Google Scholar)

Public document collections (reading lists) which can be embedded on other websites

OpenOffice.org Writer plugin for Mac OSX & Linux

Improved native user interface for Mac OSX

Individual synchronization and privacy settings for each document collection

Auto-save changes and undo functionality for quick document detail editing

Flagging documents as favorites

Marking a document as read, or unread

Detecting duplicate documents when importing library files or PDFs

Merging together document authors, tags, keywords or publications

Editing document details, or tags for multiple documents simultaneously

New “Trash” collection so you can restore deleted documents

Improvements to Existing Features:

Changes to the toolbar and terminology in light of usability tests

Better handling of documents with unconfirmed details

More robust synchronization between Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web

Search results are presented in a much easier to read format

Searching for documents now searches the document details, as well the PDF text

Bug Fixes:

Detect and handle duplicate citation keys being used when exporting to BibTeX format

Improved full-text indexing stability for search

Allow documents to be renamed without the file organizer being enabled

Clean up the formatting of exported citations

Handle tags and keywords properly when exporting to BibTex format

File organizer stability fixes

Corrections to various citation styles

Plus many more…

So no time to waste – visit our download page and give it a try, would be great to hear what you think! 🙂 Also, thanks a lot for all the feedback from our leadusers who helped us polishing this new version.

Please note: As part of the upgrade process, if you have an online account already, Mendeley Desktop will need to perform a full sync when it next starts. This may take some time depending on the size of your library. It is a one-off sync that is required to ensure compatibility with an upgraded sync method.

If you have suggestions how to improve managing research papers with the Mendeley reference manager please let us know by visiting our feedback forum. If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask, please e-mail us at support@mendeley.com.