Mendeley Feedback on UserVoice

android [updated]

2012-02-12T20:56:03-05:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

Luis J. Manso said:

Qiqqa -http://www.qiqqa.com- is a Mendeley alternative that supports Android annotations.

Search library collections

2012-02-12T20:10:17-05:00

Bernhard Mitchell suggested:
Introduce a separate search for library collection names, since it gets hard to find the appropriate collection after a while with large amount of collections

Great tool, but is necessary include a word area to write the paper.

2012-02-12T15:15:02-05:00

Remove Capitals in Article Title for APA Style [updated]

2012-02-12T15:13:35-05:00

When creating a bibliography using APA Style, only the first word in the title should be capitalized. Right now, citations are created using the title as it is entered in the document details. However, if these details are automatically downloaded, they will often have all words capitalized. The citations should be automatically created with the correct formating so that one doesn't have to go through each reference and manually change all of the capital letters.

fncll said:

I should also note that the *unofficial* fix mentioned by @Denton DeLoss is no longer available...

Remove Capitals in Article Title for APA Style [updated]

2012-02-12T15:11:08-05:00

fncll said:

Seriously: why won't someone at Mendeley address this? It essentially makes Mendeley useless for APA and as a consequence we are considering not renewing our group account...it just doesn't make sense to have to do such extensive post-editing.

Chromotherapy in cancer-Research proposal

2012-02-12T14:25:18-05:00

Anonymous suggested:
Dear Mrs./Mr., The basic idea is that if it is determined the effect of visible light on the body, then we can make a difference for each color. I want to prove that there is a correlation between each color in the visible spectrum and a specific chemical structure of the cell energy metabolism, which can control the chromotherapy based on complementary colors. According to the principle electronegativity metals, under certain conditions the acid-base imbalance (acidosis), iron will replace copper in combination , cytocromoxidase became inactive (it contains two copper atoms) leading to changing oxidation-reduction potential, BUT THE COLOR FROM BLUE-GREEN, TO REED, to block the final biological oxidation and the appearance of aerobic glycolysis. I want to prove that in photosynthesis, light absorption and its storage form of carbohydrates, are selected, the colors, as in cellular energy metabolism, absorption of energy by the degradation of carbohydrates, is also done selectively, based on complementary colors. In connection with my research proposal, to prove that the final biological oxidation, in addition to an oxidation-reduction process takes place and a photo-chemical process, the first in the electron transfer, the second in the energy transfer. To prove this theory should be conducted that experiment. I addressed many laboratories, but no one wants to do it without an opinion academic. Please help me get rid of this uncertainty. Thank you very much, Sincerely yours, Aerobic glycolysis appearance (in the presence of oxygen so), is key to cell malignant transformation. It means that you can not produce oxidation of carbon and hydrogen atoms with H2O that CO2 production. Why? For the cytochromoxidase, the last phase of the final biological oxidation in conditions of acidosis will be implicit structure acid, will bind two atoms of iron, will be red, and will absorb additional green energy from the hydrogen atom (excluding ), the production of H2O. This disorder is specific to cancer cells. Carbon atom may be oxidized in conditions of acidosis. In order to be oxidized, acid-base imbalance should be corrected, the deficit of electrons, so the alkalizing, cytochromoxidase alkaline will have a structure , will bind two atoms of copper, will be green and will absorb red complementary energy of the atom carbon to CO2 production. This process can occur in neoplastic cells, remaining unoxidized carbon atoms, will serve the anarchic synthesis of nucleic bases, nucleic acids in excess and anarchic proliferation of the cell. I imagine that for an experiment that does not make one. With your permission I submit to you. I would be very happy if this experiment were done under your leadership. > > Sincerely, Dr. Viorel Bungau > > > Basically I want to experiment demonstrate that an energy metabolism disorder that could be corrected after several times by means of maintaining acdo-base balance within normal limits, has become irreversible by depleting these resources. Acid-base balance and its adjustment mechanisms underlying this disorder.Basically it involves two comparative cell culture, an acidic (lactic acid), which will grow excessively, and the other in basic medium (URALYT+ THAM), which will not grow at all. To be more eloquent in acidic cell culture should be irradiated with monochromatic red light, in this way the structures performed oxidative decarboxylation, green (base), by absorbing the complementary color (red), will become colorless (leucoderivat) and inactive. At the same time will become hyperactive those achieved oxidative dehydrogenation (red and acid), which is responsible for the accelerated growth of cell culture, immature undifferentiated forms, dysfunctional, anarchic. Cell culture in basic medium, exogenous irradiated with monochromatic green light by neutralizing dehydrogenases (which is red, will become leucoderivat and unworkable, absorbing parts complementary color)while activating decarboxylases ,green, base, so this basic culture medium and irradiated with green light, will not grow at all, will tend to differentiate sharp and will perish. > > > What do you think about > this experiment: > > TWO PLANTS,A RED LIGHT ONLY(CORAILLE),IN BASIC MEDIUM, WITH ADDED COOPER, WILL GROW, FLOWER AND FRUIT WILL SHORT TIME, AND THE OTHER ONLY LIGHT GREEN (TOURQUOISE), IN AN ACID MEDIUM, WITH ADDED COOPER CHELATOR ( CUPRENIL ), WHICH GROWS THROUGHOUT WILL NOT GROW FLOWERS AND FRUIT WILL DO. > > > I SUGGEST TO YOU AN EXPERIMENT: > CULTURE OF NEOPLASTIC TISSUE IN A GREEN CONTAINER OR IN A COLOURLESS CONTAINER, IRRADIATED WITH MONOCHROMATIC GREEN LIGHT, IN AN ALKALINE MEDIUM, WITH ADDED COOPER, WILL IN REGRESSION OF THE TISSUE CULTURE. > > > > CULTURE OF NEOPLASTIC TISSUE IN A RED CONTAINER, OR SINGLE IRRADIATED WITH RED LIGHT, IN AN ACID MEDIUM, WITH ADDED COOPER CHELATOR ( CUPRENIL ), WILL LEAD TO EXAGERATED AND ANARCHICAL MULTIPLICATION. > > > > If exogenous monochromatic radiation on photosynthesis, is identical to endogenous monochromatic irradiation, in the final biological oxidation, exogenous monochromatic irradiation,will induce endogenous complementary monochromatic irradiation. > > > Sincerely yours, Dr. Viorel Bungau

When a file is too big to upload, continue on with the rest of the files!!!!

2012-02-12T14:17:49-05:00

Dereck Wonnacott suggested:
i got an error about a file was too big to upload. I ignored it and moved on with my life but low and behold, It stopped uploading any files after that untill I removed it from my library which didn't work. I finailly found the article in my 'deleted documets' and deleted it from there too before I was able to upload any more documents.... :( What a pain, I almost gave up on Mendeley, but now that I understand the quirk I'll keep too it. :s

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-12T12:53:29-05:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

anynom said:

When journal abbreviations are in place - this is a nice product that I would consider to purchase. But until then... it is of little value. I find it quite weird that this function is not already in place... a ref manager program that does not abbreviate journal titles in the reference list... crazy..

Sync with biblatex [updated]

2012-02-12T11:40:07-05:00

I really like the current BibTeX syncing feature. However, supporting the more modern biblatex package (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html) which supports new features such as Unicode could be very useful. The file syntax is very similar to BibTex but the two do have some differences. I ask that there be an option to 'export' to a biblatex file as opposed to a BibTex file. Thank you

Stefan L said:

From my current work, I would suggest the following features as most important:
- transformation of webpage-entries to type @online in bib-file [biblatex will then print the URL in the references]. Should be compatible with bibtex anyway. Also, the output of last-access would be crucial.
- Support of subtitle-field. This enables the correct, say full title being printed in the references list but only the main title when used for citing. [i.e.: title: "Modern History", subtitle: "An interpretation from unexpected angles" instead of "Modern History: An interpretation from unexpected angles"]
Thank you!

subscript-superscript [updated]

2012-02-12T10:23:01-05:00

There should be provision to use the subscript and superscript letter in the title and Abstract tab. Otherwise it creats a great problem while creating the Bibliography. Endnotes and Ref-works have this option. however they dont have the option to use symbol in the title of the paper. So it would be bonus if symbole can be used in addition to the subscipt and superscript letter in those tabs.

Tom Schilling said:

And greek letters and other special characters as well. If I see somebody citing beta instead of β I always think they just copied the reference from PubMed without reading the article.

In-program PubMed search & Metadata Retrieval [updated]

2012-02-12T10:18:41-05:00

An in-program browser where users can go to PubMed (or a specific Journal's website) and search an article. On downloading it, Mendeley will automatically extract the Metadata and possibly archive the file.

Tom Schilling said:

Please do not forget Google Scholar in this search

Plugin for Libre Office [updated]

2012-02-12T10:02:26-05:00

Create a plugin for the new Libre Office of the Document Foundation.

Tom Schilling said:

Not necessary. Existing plugin works perfectly well with LibreOffice 3.4.4. under Ubuntu 11.04

Plugin for Libre Office [updated]

2012-02-12T09:10:56-05:00

Create a plugin for the new Libre Office of the Document Foundation.

thomas said:

I tried install the plugin for libre office in ubuntu 11.04. The toolbar was installed but didn't work. Uninstalling it from Mendeley and installing the .oxt file as explained in the previous post seems to have solved the bug. You can find the file location via synaptic packet manager - find Mendeley and look under installed files. Drag- and-drop the file from filemanager to libreoffice as explained.

that you correctly check if articles were truly published before you enter them into your database

2012-02-12T04:40:30-05:00

Marcela Doubkova suggested:
Dear Mendeley, I love your user friendly software. However, I already several times encountered a serious problems when I found an article that was actually never published: i.e. 'An Analytical Solution to Estimate the Error Structure of a Global Soil Moisture Dataset' from Parinussa.. that was actually submitted under this name but published under 'Error estimates for near-real-time satellite soil moisture as derived from the land parameter retrieval model'.. article name thas is not to be find in your database. These discrepancies may lead to serious mistakes in journal papers! thanks for considering my suggestion and for a possible explanation of the above listed error. best regards, Marcela Doubkova

Add analytics such as those provided by Colwiz

2012-02-12T01:44:43-05:00

David suggested:
Colwiz, the recently launched Oxford-built citation platform, offers a number of interesting options for analytics. It would be great to see Mendeley develop better analytics for user libraries.

MS Word 2007 plugin still not working [updated]

2012-02-11T23:38:13-05:00

sorry to sound like a stuck record but the new release of mendeley, 0.9.5.1 still has the error with MS word 2007: the index into the specified collection is out of bounds. this error disappears in MS word 2003. . Could you guys please suggest another software that I could use until the bug get fixed? I am really working on a deadline and have become so dependent on mendeley.

Antonio Pantoja said:

Dick Harberts thank you, u are the best

Provide a way to combine/regularize multiple forms of same author's name [updated]

2012-02-11T23:30:55-05:00

When one author appears as multiple different ones in different documents, (e.g. Doe, John and Doe, J.) should be able to select all of them and "combine" such that same info is populated to all documents

Gayle said:

I thought htis was doe, but can't find it

Landscape mode

2012-02-11T22:42:12-05:00

Jan suggested:
Enable landscape mode, so that text can be zoomed better on iphone!

Can you add Journal of Clinical Oncology to your list of citation styles? It's a very high impact journal!!

2012-02-11T18:13:05-05:00

add visualization/organization tools

2012-02-11T16:51:13-05:00

Julian suggested:
It will be amazing if there were a way to create folders of papers in a more graphical way. Also something else that will be great to have is an automatic paper sorter and linker, this will find relationships between papers through their citations and the topics

Pen tool for annotations [updated]

2012-02-11T12:48:03-05:00

Make a pen tool for drawing free-hand annotations in the built-in pdf reader. Or at least make tools for making circles and arrows. I love drawing on my pdfs!

poji said:

3 years....When will our dream come true?

smarter Watched folders for sub-folders [updated]

2012-02-11T11:55:09-05:00

there should be a feature that watches the sub-folders automatically but on an individual basis. So if I put files in a folder in a folder, mendeley automatically updates all files and that sub-folder. So what I want is smarter folder system to be applied.

Anonymous said:

This feature extremely useful when we combined the Dropbox and the Mendeley!!!! In this case, we can shut down the "move attachments" option and let the sub-folders connect to the watched folder which on the Dropbox directory.

A go-back to previous viewed page button

2012-02-11T11:29:29-05:00

A suggested:
Useful when you are reading on one page of a paper and click the citation link to see the relating paper at the end, and then quickly come back to where you were reading just by clicking a button.

Keyboard shortcuts

2012-02-11T11:19:11-05:00

Anonymous suggested:
Shortcuts for the reading functions (Highlight text; add note; select text etc) would be great!

save highlighted text to notes [updated]

2012-02-11T03:13:22-05:00

Or to a new section so I will have a possibility to take a look at all highlights in one place

Kevin Zhang said:

This topic actually has 496 votes.

Such a function would be invaluable to reviewing research, especially when doing literature reviews.
Thank you.

199 - save highlighted text to notes
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/343854-save-highlighted-text-to-notes

122 - Print an Annotated Bibliography
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/345906-print-an-annotated-bibliography

63 - Copy highlighted text from a pdf document to the "notes" section, or a separate tab
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1265619-copy-highlighted-text-from-a-pdf-document-to-the-

53 - annotation and highlight report
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1145271-annotation-and-highlight-report

47 - Add a list of all PDF text annotations to record summary under the Tag&Notes section or a new tab
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/315052-add-a-list-of-all-pdf-text-annotations-to-record-s

12 - Add a 'highlight and extract to note' tool
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1049463-add-a-highlight-and-extract-to-note-tool

0 - Select references from library to create (annotated) bibliography
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/2299319-select-references-from-library-to-create-annotate

openoffice 3.3 does not use the unopkg tool, so I have to look for other refman, pity [updated]

2012-02-11T03:01:33-05:00

Anonymous said:

Hi Guys, I located unopkg file, but then got following message: Couldn't Install OpenOffice Plugin The OpenOffice unopkg utility gave the following output: . Did not show any output.

Word 2011 Mac

2012-02-10T23:25:33-05:00

Marcia Walker suggested:
Please provide information on how to get word 2011 for the Mac plugin needs to be posted at the site.

Go to tab using menu

2012-02-10T16:07:48-05:00

James suggested:
There should be a menu (or pop-up menu) that allows selection of tabs. This would be useful for when there are too many tabs to see at once, or when one needs to see the full name of a tab. Safari, for example, has a pop-up menu on the right side of the tab bar when there are too many tabs to display at once. Using the arrow to cycle through tabs is awkward.

In the library view, wrap the author name(s) similarly to the title [updated]

2012-02-10T15:19:24-05:00

I realize that this feature may have been omitted for aesthetics, because wrapping the author names around may make it harder to scan the author column by the first listed author. However, since many papers have several authors it is helpful to view as many authors at once as possible. Each paper has two lines of text reserved for it, regardless of whether or not the second line is required. The document title wraps around to the second line when necessary, and it would be helpful if the author list did as well.

Gwendolyn Bennett said:

It's very important to know the last author of a paper, so it makes it important to be able to see all the authors in the list. Either wrap the authors like the title does (as suggested above) or use an ellipsis to shorten the field and show the first few and the last (whatever will fit).

ISO 690, ISO 690-2 support [updated]

2012-02-10T15:18:21-05:00

Most citation managers do not support ISO 690 and even if they do it is not complete - for all types of source. In Europe, ISO 690 is one of most used citation styles.

Adam Sabla said:

I have this problem too. The support of ISO 690 is incomplete, I have to manually adjust the work :/

Is it planned to be solved?

increase the number of paper tabs you can see along the top when opened in desktop version [updated]

2012-02-10T15:14:39-05:00

James said:

What would be great is if there was a pop-up menu that allowed selection of tabs (like in Safari).

mendeley for android tablet pc [updated]

2012-02-10T13:16:02-05:00

A mendeley version for andriod tablet pc like the ipad one would be great.

Anonymous said:

I thought it was possible to have Mendeley in my tablet lenovo

More control over pdf file/folder and cite key convention [updated]

2012-02-10T12:43:59-05:00

Since everyone has their own way of naming files/folders for storing the pdfs of papers, it would be great if there were greater control of it, giving access to things like author surname, initials, first letters of each title word. My preference in both filename and cite key, for example, is <surname><initials><year><first letter of first three words of title>. This allows me to easily disambiguate multiple publications by the same person in one year and help me find things without having to open the file. It would also be good to have these names put together without spaces or '-' type characters, using camel case.

Anonymous said:

Personally I use <firstauthor>_<year>_<a,b,c,d,...>

I think bibdesk has a very good solution to this.

I would like to be able to just use the cite key as the PDF name.

making it possible to highlight text with different colors (not only yellow) [updated]

2012-02-10T11:13:46-05:00

Beniamino Guerra said:

Variety of highlight colors requested please

PDF annotations should be compatible with other PDF readers [updated]

2012-02-10T10:37:53-05:00

Anonymous said:

Absolutely essential. I'd like all annotations created in the Mendeley viewer to be written to the PDF file so that I can see them with other applications (aren't PDF annotations part of the PDF specs?) Further, I'd like to be able to edit annotations made in other applications with the Mendeley viewer.

Ability to set external pdf viewer [updated]

2012-02-10T10:25:51-05:00

I would like to have the ability to choose which pdf viewer to use to read papers. I think a similar feature request was closed a couple of weeks ago ("allow to set which pdf viewer to use") with the suggestion of changing the default pdf viewer for the system. However, I have multiple pdf viewers installed: a lightweight one that I use for most pdfs, and a more complete one with the ability to highlight and take notes that I use for reading papers. The former is my system defaults, but I would like to use the latter in Mendeley. Even if an internal pdf viewer has been planned for the next release, it would be very good to give the user the ability to choose if to use the internal viewer or some other fancy external viewer. thanks, mirko.

Anonymous said:

This would be great. I use Skim for academic papers but my system default is Preview and I don't want to change it.

Allow printing of PDF papers within Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-10T08:11:06-05:00

A simple "Print" menu under File would be good. Control-P doesn't even work now though.

Daniel Kurjak said:

Control-P doesn't work to me neither.

Add a "wishlist" function to highlight/list papers you want to read from a parental paper

2012-02-10T08:02:28-05:00

Laura suggested:
When users read a paper, they may want to read a few of the papers referenced in that paper afterwards, but maybe not straight away. It might be useful to be able to mark those up in a sort of "whishlist" as in Amazon or Librarything.

Fix a bug: Copy citation often doesn't work! [updated]

2012-02-10T07:41:27-05:00

Both cmd-C and menu item "Copy citation" just often does not work. It does not copy to the clipboard.

Daniel Kurjak said:

Hi, I have the same problem.. It worked yesterday only. Today - no response...
Not even special paste helped :(

save pdf metadata directly to file like in mp3s [updated]

2012-02-10T05:56:29-05:00

Rasmus K. Rendsvig said:

I threw 3 votes because I cannot think of anything more important to be implemented!
I have just re-installed my OS, and I took for granted that Mendeley did this already. Alas, I have a lot of document merging to do.

BUG: Mendeley cannot sync files to the web

2012-02-10T05:41:00-05:00

Laura suggested:
When I try to sync my library to the web, the sync stops at 30% and this message appears: "Problems when syncing: 'The client sent through an inaccessible document ID' " This is preventing me from sharing documents with my colleagues through groups

Allow printing of PDF papers within Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-10T05:04:13-05:00

A simple "Print" menu under File would be good. Control-P doesn't even work now though.

Anonymous said:

We need official reply from mendeley about printing issue !!!!

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T21:15:43-05:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Alex Chubaty said:

@Simon Tyler: thanks for your script, I'll check it out -- (didn't read all the messages previously in this thread)

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T20:41:17-05:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Simon Tyler said:

@Anonymous: Many people are just pointing out that this should be the bread and butter of a reference manager. It should not require any mucking around with files and directories. So they're merely adding their voices in the hope that this will be made a stronger priority.

Also, the solution you're pointing to, does not work for BibTeX. To fix the bibtex journal abbreviations, you can use either the perl script that Alex just posted, or the python script (http://pastebin.com/xE6PHEsN) that I posted here in July last year.

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-09T20:12:01-05:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Alex Chubaty said:

Fantastic tip to get abbreviated journal names.

I put together a perl script that uses the info from the Mendeley-generated BibTeX files to get the names of the journals you have in your library, and get the corresponding abbreviated names based on the ISI abbreviations. Check it out http://alexchubaty.com/node/15

*it's my first time writing in perl, so I'm sure there are improvements that can be made to the script

Upload PDFs using Mendeley website interface [updated]

2012-02-09T18:36:27-05:00

When I'm at a computer without Mendeley Desktop installed, I would like to be able to add a reference/document by uploading the PDF to the website. Currently, the 'Add Document' button on the website only allows for manually adding the reference info. Pressing 'Add Document' should also bring up a Browse button that allows you to locate and upload a document from your computer to the web.

Patrik D'haeseleer said:

Ditto!

Add an option to use (1) the PMID and (2) a link to a Webcite page in the bibliography. [updated]

2012-02-09T17:06:34-05:00

I'm currently writing a paper that requires both variables in the bibliography, and I can't seem to edit the csl enough to get them out. According to the CSL language specification, there is no variable for PMID although there is a field for it in Mendeley (just below DOI, which you *can* call in the CSL...)

Andy Maloney said:

There is an option for PMID and PMCID in CSL 1.01. A work around would be to put the PMID in the URL section. Then create a "pmid" macro that uses the URL variable.
<macro name="pmid">
<text variable="URL"/>
</macro>
Then, in the bibliography section, add this where you want it to show up in the citation.
<text macro="pmid" prefix=". PMID:"/>

Irritating...I know but it works.

Edit in-text citations [updated]

2012-02-09T16:13:49-05:00

I would love to be able to edit in-text citations without it being a pain, and also to maintain the bibliography link. Currently, I add a citation into the text of my word file, and as an example, it appears as (Sahlins 1972). However, if in my text I already mention the author's name, I only want the date to show up, like "...as is argued by Sahlins (1972), the term..." Another example is if several citations are added as examples of a statement, requiring the use of "e.g." within the parentheses, thus requiring the citation to be edited. The inserted citation does allow editing, but every so often a confirmation box pops up telling me that I need to switch back to the original or it will lose the bibliography link (which also changes it back to the original regardless of whether I click OK or Cancel, by the way). Can this be changed to allow editing while maintaining that link?

Roberto Perez-Franco said:

This is a deal breaker for me.

integrate Mendeley with RSS readers

2012-02-09T14:12:25-05:00

Anonymous suggested:
integrate Mendeley with RSS readers, such as Google reader.

In-program PubMed search & Metadata Retrieval [updated]

2012-02-09T14:08:16-05:00

Anonymous said:

This would be absolutely essential if Mendeley wants to compete effectively with Papers....