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GB of free web storage space, which is upgradeable at a cost.
History.
Mendeley, named after the biologist Gregor Mendel and chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, was founded in November 2007 by three German PhD students and is based in London. The first public beta version was released in August 2008. The company's investors include some people previously involved with Last.fm, Skype, and Warner Music Group, as well as academics from Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University.
Mendeley won several awards in 2009: Plugg.eu "European Start
its user data and/or to "destroy or coopt an open-science icon that threatens its business model."
In 2012, Mendeley was one of the repositories for green Open Access recommended by Peter Suber. The recommendation was revoked in 2013 after Elsevier bought Mendeley.
In 2018, an update to Mendeley resulted in some users losing PDFs and annotations stored in their accounts. After a number of weeks, Elsevier announced a potential fix for this problem.
In 2019, an update to Mendeley, encrypting the backup database