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Full-text search in My Library on Mendeley Web

At the moment, there is no search functionality in My Library on Mendeley Web. It should support full-text search like in Mendeley Desktop.

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This has been suggested to our Web Team, however, it would be very difficult to implement and may be quite time consuming for our relatively small team. However, there are plans to completely overhaul the online library which may introduce a similar feature.

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  • JackJack commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Proper searching in titles an authors would be very useful, as would being able to sort by author.

  • yingying commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    can search function work for the notes(which located besides Details) i wrote in Mendeley Desktop?

  • Kristian ThorsenKristian Thorsen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The web search in My Library does still not work on authors or other fields. A search for "Lotka" only finds documents with "Lotka" as a part of the title, and not documents with "Lotka" as an author.

  • PatrickPatrick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @robert.knight
    If "metadata" is supposed to include all fields in "document details", then the search is not working properly in My Library on the web. When I search by author last name on the web version of My Library, I get *no* results. When I search on the desktop, I get many results, and those are properly restricted if I use the "author:" preface.

  • mrominemromine commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should be applied to Group libraries on Mendeley Web, too. Currently there is no way to search through a Group's library of papers except by tags. There should be a form-entry search to search all the citations in the Group's library, if not to search the full-text of the Group's library (as can be done through the desktop client).

  • Robert KnightRobert Knight commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The original idea states "there is no search functionality in My Library on Mendeley Web" which is not quite correct - there is search across the metadata of documents in your library. We're still working on the infrastructure to support full text search on the web. As a first step, metadata search across the whole Mendeley catalog has been rolled out at http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/

  • Daniel OlanoDaniel Olano commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I too, would like to know the status of this feature. I am analyzing which Web Reference Manager would be perfect for our needs, and this functionality is critical to us.

  • jay.chokjay.chok commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What is the status for full-text search currently? It is extremely important.

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