wants to help researchersorganize, share, and discover

research papers.

Add venue/date if needed

What is Mendeley?

Creating your library

Managing your documents &

references

Citing and sharing references

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What is Mendeley?

Based in London, Mendeley are 15 researchers, graduates and software developers from...

...backed by co-founders and former executives

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research libraries

researchers

papers

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What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is free academic software (Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers...

...and 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

Add tags & notes and edit document details

Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

Creating your library

Adding your papers

You have different options to set up your library:

• Add single files or an entire folder • “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF

files• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases,

or…

…drag & drop PDF files into the library pane…

… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically

Document details lookup

You can also try to complete the document details by querying various databases (Crossref, PubMed, ArXiv or Google Scholar)

Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup

And remember – made a mistake? Press CTRL+Z (or Edit > Undo) to undo the last step

Web Importer

To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarksin your internet browser

Supported sites

www.mendeley.com/import

The Web Importer helps you to grab citations off the web

Using the Web Importer

On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmarklet…

…then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If possible/available, also the associated PDF will be imported.

Synchronize and manage your library online

Synchronize

your library

You can also add references and edit & manage your library online

In addition, you will get statistics about your library, your impact and your research field (see later)

Managing your documents & references

Manage your library

Star your favorite papers

Documents can be marked read/unread

Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

Search as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Mendeley‘s File Organizer

Mendeley can also organize your PDF files in a consistent folder structure on your hard disk and rename them according to their document details

You can find the File Organizer inTools > Options > File Organizer

Citing and sharing references

Citing in Word & Open Office

Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

Highlight the paper you want to cite

Citing in Word & Open Office

“Send citation” to Word

Citation will show up based on selected style

Cite into Google documents or other editors by copy &

paste

Creating bibliographies

Insert a bibliography based on the citations

Public Collections (“Reading Lists”)

You can make a collection public in “Edit Settings”

View the collection online – other users can subscribe via clicking on “Subscribe” on the collection page.

A Public Collection acts like a “Reading List” – you can add references to the collection, and users who have subscribed to this collection will get the references pushed into their Mendeley account. PDFs are not attached.

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

Discover research statistics

What is your impact?

Leave feedback and see what’s coming next

Visit http://feedback.mendeley.comto see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs

www.mendeley.com