<s>
Mendeley	B-Language
is	O
a	O
reference	B-Application
manager	I-Application
software	O
founded	O
in	O
2007	O
by	O
PhD	O
students	O
Paul	O
Foeckler	O
,	O
Victor	O
Henning	O
,	O
Jan	O
Reichelt	O
and	O
acquired	O
by	O
Elsevier	O
in	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
Mendeley	B-Language
,	O
named	O
after	O
the	O
biologist	O
Gregor	O
Mendel	O
and	O
chemist	O
Dmitri	O
Mendeleev	O
,	O
was	O
founded	O
in	O
London	O
in	O
November	O
2007	O
by	O
three	O
German	O
PhD	O
students	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
's	O
investors	O
included	O
some	O
people	O
previously	O
involved	O
with	O
Last.fm,	O
Skype	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Warner	O
Music	O
Group	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
academicians	O
from	O
Cambridge	O
and	O
Johns	O
Hopkins	O
University	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
won	O
several	O
awards	O
including	O
Plugg.eu	O
"	O
European	O
Start-up	O
of	O
the	O
Year	O
2009	O
"	O
,	O
TechCrunch	O
Europas	O
"	O
Best	O
Social	O
Innovation	O
Which	O
Benefits	O
Society	O
2009	O
"	O
,	O
and	O
The	O
Guardian	O
ranked	O
it	O
#6	O
in	O
"	O
Top	O
100	O
tech	O
media	O
companies	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
repositories	O
for	O
green	O
Open	O
Access	O
recommended	O
by	O
Peter	O
Suber	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
recommendation	O
was	O
revoked	O
after	O
Elsevier	O
bought	O
Mendeley	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mendeley	B-Language
was	O
purchased	O
by	O
the	O
academic	O
publisher	O
Elsevier	O
in	O
early	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
sale	O
led	O
to	O
debate	O
on	O
scientific	O
networks	O
and	O
in	O
the	O
media	O
interested	O
in	O
Open	O
Access	O
,	O
and	O
upset	O
members	O
of	O
the	O
scientific	O
community	O
who	O
felt	O
that	O
the	O
Mendeley	B-Language
's	O
acquisition	O
by	O
Elsevier	O
was	O
antithetical	O
to	O
Mendeley	B-Language
's	O
open	O
sharing	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
David	O
Dobbs	O
,	O
in	O
The	O
New	O
Yorker	O
,	O
suggested	O
Elsevier	O
's	O
reasons	O
for	O
buying	O
Mendeley	B-Language
could	O
have	O
been	O
to	O
acquire	O
its	O
user	O
data	O
and/or	O
to	O
"	O
destroy	O
or	O
co	O
opt	O
an	O
open-science	O
icon	O
that	O
threatens	O
its	O
business	O
model.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
acquisition	O
,	O
the	O
Mendeley	B-Language
team	O
extended	O
its	O
product	O
line	O
while	O
continuing	O
to	O
iterate	O
on	O
its	O
core	O
reference	B-Application
manager	I-Application
application	O
(	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Desktop	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
23	O
September	O
2013	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
announced	O
iPhone	B-Device
and	O
iPad	B-Application
apps	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
Android	B-Application
app	O
followed	O
shortly	O
after	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
12	O
January	O
2015	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
announced	O
the	O
acquisition	O
of	O
Newsflo	O
,	O
a	O
service	O
which	O
provided	O
links	O
to	O
press	O
coverage	O
of	O
researchers	O
 '	O
work	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
functionality	O
was	O
subsequently	O
incorporated	O
into	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Feed	O
and	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Profile	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2016	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Data	O
,	O
a	O
platform	O
for	O
sharing	O
citable	O
research	O
datasets	O
online	O
,	O
was	O
promoted	O
out	O
of	O
beta	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2016	O
,	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Careers	O
was	O
launched	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
24	O
May	O
2019	O
,	O
Elsevier	O
announced	O
two	O
new	O
products	O
:	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Reference	B-Application
Manager	I-Application
and	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Cite	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
15	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
Mendeley	B-Language
mobile	O
app	O
was	O
removed	O
from	O
the	O
Apple	B-Application
App	I-Application
Store	I-Application
and	O
Google	B-Application
Play	I-Application
,	O
leaving	O
access	O
via	O
the	O
web	O
site	O
or	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Reference	B-Application
Manager	I-Application
on	O
the	O
desktop	O
the	O
only	O
way	O
to	O
access	O
the	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2022	O
,	O
Elsevier	O
discontinued	O
the	O
downloads	O
of	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Desktop	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
transition	O
to	O
the	O
new	O
web-based	O
solution	O
(	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Reference	B-Application
Manager	I-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
plans	O
to	O
permanently	O
stop	O
the	O
signs-in	O
to	O
Mendeley	B-Language
Desktop	O
in	O
a	O
longer	O
term	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
platform	O
can	O
integrate	O
with	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
,	O
OpenOffice	B-Application
and	O
other	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2018	O
,	O
an	O
update	O
to	O
Mendeley	B-Language
resulted	O
in	O
some	O
users	O
losing	O
PDFs	O
and	O
annotations	O
stored	O
in	O
their	O
accounts	O
.	O
</s>
