Mendeley

Allan Parsons

What Is Mendeley?At the level of the bibliographic entity…

Mendeley is a bibliographic management tool, enabling you:

• to cite a text• to create a bibliography of citations• to ‘write and cite’ (integrate with Word)

What Is Mendeley?

At the level of the text…

Mendeley is a concept management tool, enabling you:

• to filter textual content (using tags)• to search textual content• to collate texts for literature search

What Is Mendeley?

At the level of the text collection…

Mendeley is an information management and knowledge management tool, enabling you:

• to organise a collection of texts (Tags)• to classify sub-collections (Groups and

Folders)

What Is Mendeley?

At the level of the database…

Mendeley forms a research database, enabling you:

• to search the collective, crowd-sourced database

• to join groups and benefit from others’ collections

What Is Mendeley?

At the level of the network…

Mendeley is a professional social network, enabling you:

• to find other researchers with similar interests

• to collaborate with other researchers

What Is Mendeley?

As an element in your relational, professional identity…

Mendeley can be integrated with, for example,

• Academia.edu• ResearchGate• LinkedIn• Facebook

Step 1: Join Mendeley Online

Step 1: Join Mendeley OnlineName and Email

Step 1: Join Mendeley OnlinePassword and Download

Step 2: Create a Profile

Step 2: Create a Profile

Step 3: Start Collecting

• Bookmarks toolbar• Direct from database• Download PDF, drag and drop• Download PDF, add file• Download PDF, watch folder• Transfer existing collection• Manually add record

Step 3: Start CollectingBookmarks toolbar

Step 3: Start CollectingDirect from database

Click on database name

Step 3: Start CollectingConduct search and click on Abstract

Step 3: Start CollectingClick on Mendeley icon

Step 3: Start CollectingDownload PDF, drag and drop

Drag file and drop in Mendeley

Step 3: Start CollectingDownload PDF, add files

Click on File, then Add Files, then select files

Step 3: Start CollectingDownload PDF, watch folder

Click on File, then Watch folder, then select folder from list

Step 4: Bibliographic ManagementSet bibliographic style

Click on View, click on Citation Style, then select preferred style

Step 4: Bibliographic ManagementEdit bibliographic record

Match details from PDF text to fields in bibliographic record, correcting where necessary

Step 5: Information ManagementAdd tags

Step 5: Information ManagementCheck consistency of tags

Step 6: Synchronise desktop and web

Step 7: Create Group

Desktop

Online

Step 8: Join Group

Step 9: Mendeley Suggest

Step 10: Write and Cite Add-on

Click on Tools, then click on Install MS Word Plugin