We clicked Add Documents and browsed to an archive, but it's just as easy to drag-and-drop documents directly into the program for organizing.

For starters, only three toolbar buttons are active: Add Documents, Create Folder, and Sync Library. The program's toolbar and navigation panel have the familiar feel of a full-featured e-mail client that can sync folders and data with servers and other accounts. In addition to the Dashboard, tabs let us quickly access My Library, Papers, Groups, and People. Clicking the link in the verification email we received opened the main page, the Dashboard, in our browser.

The setup wizard let us log in to an existing account or create a new one, which only required a name, e-mail address, and password, though users can enter their research field and status. Mendeley Desktop requires a free Mendeley account that enables users to share and sync data across multiple computers and mobile devices. It indexes and organizes your research, papers, PDFs, and other tools into an easy-to-use interface, but its online features also make it easy to access work posted by other researchers as well as access scientific, medical, and technical databases and sites. If you mashed up Facebook and Outlook with some professional networking features, threw in a dash of scientific interaction (think Berkeley's BOINC) and pointed the business end at researchers, you'd probably end up with something very much like this. Mendeley Desktop is a Web-based interactive network for posting, editing, reviewing, and critiquing academic research.

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