Mendeley is refocusing on what's important to our users: what does it mean for you?
Last updated on May 01, 2025
On November 02, 2020 we announced that in order to best support you in your research workflow, Mendeley will be concentrating on the core value proposition of reference management, research data management and citation solutions. Read our blog post here.
Below we explain what this means for you as a Mendeley user.
What is happening?
As of December 2020, we will begin retiring some Mendeley features:
- Mendeley Profiles
- Mendeley Feed
- Mendeley Funding
We will begin retiring public groups from 04 March, 2021.
We are making some changes to Mendeley Suggest, but it is not being retired.
Where do I get the latest information?
Please refer back to this page which we'll be regularly updating over the coming weeks with the latest changes in Mendeley.
What do I need to know?
- Mendeley Profile pages at mendeley.com/profiles/{your-name} will be removed.
- Mendeley People Search will be removed.
- Your first name, last name, email address and profile picture will be retained as part of account information in accordance with our privacy policy, and you can manage these within your account settings.
- You will no longer receive emails from Mendeley detailing your research impact.
- Functionality will be put in place on your account settings page to allow you to download your profile data in a human-readable format for a reasonable period.
- All your personal data that we do not require to continue to provide our remaining solutions – such as educational history, work history and editorships – will be deleted from our systems after a retention period, during which we shall only keep that data in order to provide an export of it to you.
- Newsfeed (‘Feed’) pages at mendeley.com/newsfeed will be removed.
- Discussion feeds on both public and private groups will be removed.
- Feed notifications in the header (from the bell icon) will be removed.
- Your feed posts will be removed from our systems and will not be available for data export.
- There is no action to take on your part.
- All public group pages, including invite-only groups, at mendeley.com/community/{your-public-group-name} will be removed.
- Mendeley Group Search will be removed.
- All metadata associated with public groups will be removed from our systems and will not be available for data export, including:
- Name
- Description
- Group members and roles
- Group feed posts
- Document metadata
- You may choose to export your public group document metadata via:
- Mendeley Reference Manager’s export functionality, see here for details.
- Mendeley Desktop's export functionality.
- Recreating your community using private groups and move your public group document metadata to the new private group.
- Please note that private groups will continue to be available through Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Reference Manager.
- Mendeley Funding pages will be removed.
- Your 'Favourite' opportunities will be removed from our systems and will not be available for data export.
- You will no longer receive recommended opportunities by email.
- There is no action to take on your part.
- Mendeley Suggest at mendeley.com/suggest will be removed.
- You will continue to receive Mendeley Suggest personalised suggestions by email if you have chosen to receive them.
- As always, you may unsubscribe from Mendeley Suggest at any time.
- There is no action to take on your part.
- Mendeley Developer APIs will remain available to our integration partners and apps.
- More detailed information can be found here.
- We recommend you review your Mendeley integrations and proactively adapt your software to no longer rely on the related endpoints or properties. Changes will include at least the following:
- Removal of the Profile Search endpoint.
- Removal of the Follower endpoint.
- Changes to the Groups model removing attributes relating to public and invite-only groups.
- Changes to the Profiles model removing attributes relating to public profiles such as research interests, education, employment and biography.
- Aside from changes to Public Groups, there is no action to take on your part if you are only a user of:
- Mendeley Desktop
- Mendeley Reference Manager
- Mendeley Cite
- Mendeley Web Importer
- Mendeley Careers
- Mendeley Data
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