page_title: Mendeley
section_title: Early success
hierarchical_section_title: Mendeley / History / Early success
caption_attribution_description: Plugg 2009
context_page_description: Mendeley is a company based in London, UK, which provides products and services for academic researchers. It is most known for its reference manager which is used to manage and share research papers and generate bibliographies for scholarly articles.
context_section_description: Mendeley won several awards in 2009 including Plugg.eu "European Start-up of the Year 2009", TechCrunch Europas "Best Social Innovation Which Benefits Society 2009", and The Guardian ranked it #6 in "Top 100 tech media companies".
  In 2012, Mendeley was one of the repositories for green Open Access recommended by Peter Suber. The recommendation was revoked after Elsevier bought Mendeley.
caption: Victor Henning and Jan Reichelt receiving the Plugg "European Start-up of the Year" award, 2009
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