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Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: Papers.Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: Mendeley.Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: iBooks.Like Papers, the Mendley app uses a split view, where the left-hand panel is used for navigation. Mendeley's app doesn't use this API, which is a pity because if it did I suspect the API would be getting the love it needs from Mendeley's developers. Mendeley recently released an API, which I've discussed at length. At present this appears to be done over HTTPS. Hence, whereas the Nature and PLoS apps consume a web stream of documents, and Papers enables you to sync collections between desktop and iOS devices, Mendeley syncs to central web server. Perhaps the key difference between Mendeley and the other apps is that Mendeley is cloud-based, in that the bibliography exists on Mendeley's servers, as well as locally on your desktop, iPad, or iPhone. As before, this isn't a review of the app as such, I'm more interested in documenting how the app interface works, with a view to discovering if there are consistent metaphors we can use for navigating bibliographic databases. Previously I've looked at the Nature, PLoS, and Papers apps, now it's the turn of the Mendeley iPad app.

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