Empowering libraries and delivering new tools to researchers

Lisse, The Netherlands and London, UK
10 May 2012

Empowering libraries and delivering new tools to researchers:
Mendeley Institutional Edition Powered by Swets goes live

Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) is for academic institutions and research groups, who want to provide improved services to researchers. The MIE is a research service provided by libraries that improves the productivity of researchers, and gives the library the real-time visibility they need to continuously improve their services. Unlike alternative products that only provide pieces of the solution, our service delivers clear value to both libraries and their customers

The Mendeley Institutional Edition combines a premium version of the leading Mendeley research worktool, that gives the most productive integrated combination of reference management, research content discovery and collaboration; and give libraries the unique analytics that lets them connect content use with consequent research publications and the readership of these publications. These analytics also help the library identify how to continuously improve their services. This is a cloud based real time platform.

“The success and continued rapid growth of Mendeley to date has already delivered a fantastic new tool for researchers” said David Main, CEO at Swets, “This new service delivered by libraries gives an premium service to researchers and gives libraries the conection to researchers and their activities that they need in this digital world”.

Speaking of the launch, Victor Henning, Managing Director of Mendeley said, “With our cloud based tool, librarians will have a deeper visibility and understanding of their own content use and the impact of their research output. Mendeley Institutional Edition helps provide this and we’re delighted to be working with Swets to open up and increase the visibility of this data. In addition, it will help them build private collaborative groups for their students, researchers and professors to network and share their knowledge.”

To learn more about Mendeley Institutional Edition powered by Swets visit http://www.swets.com/mendeley-institutional-edition-features.

About Mendeley
Mendeley is one of the world's largest research collaboration platforms, used by over 1.6 million researchers worldwide. Mendeley provides real-time statistics, trends by research area, and recommendations for related research based on its crowd-sourced database of over 200 million research documents. Launched in January 2009, the company has offices in London and New York, and its investors include former founders and executives of Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music Group.

About Swets
Swets is the global market leader in managing professional information. We develop and deliver innovating services that enable the use of knowledge to its full extent. From more than twenty offices around the world we actively serve clients and publishers in over 160 countries. Our active role in today’s complex information marketplace has led E-Content Magazine to award us regularly in their annual “100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry.” We are the only information agent to be ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global basis, which pays testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

Media Contacts
Matt Mackay
Director Communications
Mendeley
144a Clerkenwell Road
London EC1R 5DF
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 7808 240624

Damian Leslie
External Communications Executive
Swets
Heereweg 347 B 2161 CA Lisse
The Netherlands
Tel: 31 252 435 189
Fax: 31 252 415 888
Email: dleslie@nl.swets.com
www.swets.com