Hi Sci.Engr.Mech,
We are Jan and Victor, two doctoral students (University of Cologne and Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Germany) and the founders of Mendeley
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a new free research paper management tool. Since you're probably all dealing with research papers and scholarly articles in mechanical 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:
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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:
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Additionally, we've started collaborating with CiteULike, the leading social bookmarking tool for researchers:
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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.
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. 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
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