Not sure if my comment came through, but I'd like an invite if any left. - Neil Saunders

You should have the invite in your email. :) - Ricardo Vidal

Thanks! No native Linux yet though. I don't do Wine :) - Neil Saunders

Seems it might be on the way. Meanwhile, Wine it must be. - Ricardo Vidal

I begged for an invite in your comments to ensure you have my email :) - Andrew Perry

@Andrew invite sent :) - Ricardo Vidal

Danke ! - Andrew Perry from fftogo

Here's me begging as well. I signed up, so hopefully I'll be able to distribute some myself. - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn, just sent your invite :) - Ricardo Vidal

Got it. The comparison to MP3 sharing is apt, with all the implications that entails. A hot feature for them would be online backup integration, so you're not limited to running it from one PC and so people could share references without having to actually mail the PDF. - Mr. Gunn

I want in too. If possible ... obrigado. - Paulo Nuin

Ah, reading the license terms: "You may (at your option) use our Software to make a regular back-up copy of your Academic Papers to our servers so that you can access your Academic Papers using the World Wide Web and you hereby grant to us a limited licence to upload, copy, store, use, modify, display and reproduce your Academic Papers for the sole purpose of providing our back-up service to you." I like this very much. - Mr. Gunn

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Site, including, without limitation: "facilities for the uploading and sharing of users’ and members’ Academic Papers with other users or private user groups you have created" This is perfect! The social networking angle of the online service, linking people via authorship, looks really nice and pretty much kills SciLink. - Mr. Gunn

Don't mean to live-blog my reading of the license here, but I should include: "You may use our Site and our Software only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Site or our Software: to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any academic papers or articles without the permission of the copyright owner." - Mr. Gunn

Finally, "You may link to any of our publicly available pages, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation." I'm going to blog my review, just as I have with 2collab and Connotea. I hope they don't close my account because I say something too critical. - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn, how about a blog post about the license terms? Sounds like you have some opinions about them. - Ricardo Vidal

That's coming, once I get some hands-on time with it. The import from Connotea is putting the doi in the notes field instead of the doi field, which is apparently Connotea's fault. Two killer features I hope they add soon: automatic download of PDF once metadata is added and adding to library via bookmarklet. If they don't have the second feature, I'll probably still use Connotea or something and periodically update Mendeley, provided. It needs to be easier to select a range of papers in Connotea by date - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn - "I hope they don't close my account because I say something too critical." We sure as hell wouldn't! We know that we still have a lot of work to do, so our technology as well as our license terms are far from perfect - both will be modified based on our users' feedback. Any ideas are appreciated! Just one remark regarding the current license terms: As you can tell from the language, they were largely written by our lawyers with the main intention to protect us from lawsuits... - Victor / Mendeley Team

The license terms quite strangely resemble readable prose, so props for that! I'm still trying to find an import format that works 100% for Connotea/2collab -> Mendeley. I takes about 20 sec on my machine to import 550 records. It's becoming apparent to me, and probably has been for a while to Ian et al, that RIS kinda sucks. Every app seems to expect things like DOI and URL and notes to be in a different field. - Mr. Gunn

Thanks - we tried to intervene and rephrase where possible, but our lawyers were adamant on some points! To be honest, we hadn't planned with a Connotea/2collab import specifically; we just tried with BibTex and RIS files generated by Google Scholar and EndNote XML... If you feel so inclined, it would be enormously helpful if you entered any import/field mapping problems into our bug tracking system: http://mendeley.com/trac... - Victor / Mendeley Team

I tried it yesterday. I think I imported around 400 articles. There were several errors in import but these are understandable. However I wanted to go through the errors and add tags etc but it was a bit to slow so working on it was a bit frustrating. Is it just me or is it slow for other people as well ? - Pedro Beltrao

Hey Victor, any way to get an invite? Thanks ... - Paulo Nuin

I second Paulo's question for an additional invite.. - Daniel Jurczak

Paulo, Daniel - I feel rotten for having to turn down your request, but unfortunately, we can't currently invite new testers. Sincerest apologies! The reason is that we've got our hands full fixing the bugs and implementing the feedback brought up by the current testers. I know it seems arbitrary, but there's also a waiting list of people who signed up on our website (www.mendeley.com). May I ask you to register there? You'll be notified first thing we go public beta... - Victor / Mendeley Team

Pedro - Maybe we can help? If you enter your problems (along with your operating system/machine specs) into our bug tracking system, we'll try to sort out the errors and the slowness as soon as we can: http://mendeley.com/trac... - Victor / Mendeley Team

That's fine, but I guess you should change the text on the website. People might think they will get an invitation/registration soon. - Paulo Nuin

Thanks anyway Victor, I will just register on the website - Daniel Jurczak