I’ve spent a little time today playing around with Mendeley.

Sleepy panda, Chengdu, July 2010

I was looking at it as an alternative to EndNote – we have developed very extensive support for EndNote over the years but I’ve been aware of all the free alternatives and thought it was time to find out more. I must say I’m quite impressed with my first experience of this tool. It works as a web tool and also as a desktop application and both sync together, so it’s very easy to see info wherever you are. I loved the way it harvested pdfs from my desktop and plonked them into a folder for me! I shall use it to share some of my databases of references once I have them all updated.