Thomson Reuters Ups Ante for Mendeley Customers Seeking Free Alternative

PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 2013 - The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced an enhanced version of its EndNote Basic online offering, with more features and functionality for users looking for a free alternative.

"Public response to Elsevier's acquisition of Mendeley has been mixed," said Amanda Addis, vice president and general manager of the EndNote solution from Thomson Reuters. "Thomson Reuters has always had a free EndNote product, and we've now made it even more appealing in light of current market conditions.  We want researchers to know they have a 'free' choice from Thomson Reuters with our new EndNote Basic."

EndNote Basic includes storage for 2 gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styles. In addition, there are intangible benefits including "the fact that we are publisher and publishing-model neutral. Our mission is to support the advancement of science and the research community with tools needed to accomplish individual, institutional and societal goals," said Ms. Addis. "EndNote has been the premier research tools for 20 years; our customers trust our commitment to the privacy and confidentiality of their data."

EndNote is the industry's premier research resource with flexible tools for searching, organizing and sharing work, creating bibliographies, and writing papers. It is used by more than three million people around the world, comprising 100,000 enterprises and customer accounts. The EndNote iPad version will soon be updated to reflect the new EndNote Basic functionality. EndNote's iPad version is available on iTunes for $.99 (discounted from $9.99) through the end of July 2013.

Thomson Reuters has made it easy for users to migrate Mendeley files to EndNote in a few simple steps. More information is at http://endnote.com/basic.  

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