Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com
•What is it?•How is it different from other “Bibliographic databases” like End Note and Reference Manager
Mendeley & Other databases
Mendeley
Open software Access it from anywhere Syncs desktop and website
application Automatically extract
document details when you upload PDF documents
Shares collections with colleagues and closed groups
Reference Manager Database
Commercial software Need to carry your laptop
and connect to your network It is only desktop application Doesn’t pull the PDF
descriptive metadata
Syncs Desktop & WebDesktop – a free academic software to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers
Web - a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers
What is Mendeley
Set up and manage your collections
Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications
Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Creating Library- Adding papersYou have different options to set up your
library:• Add single files or an entire folder • Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS
databases, or…• “Watch a folder” to automatically import
PDF files
…drag & drop PDF files into the library pane…
… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically
Add tags & notes and edit document details
Supported Sites for Importing Documents
Synchronize and manage your library online
Synchronize
your library
You can also add references and edit & manage your library online
Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer
Annotate and highlight
Cite & Create bibliographies in Word
“Send citation” to Word
Citation will show up based on selected style
Cite into Google documents or other editors by copy & paste
Shared Collections
A shared collection allows a research group to create a private, shared library and to collaboratively edit and annotate documents and references.
Only the members of this collection can see it online
Create your professional research profile
Discover research statistics