Transcript Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com

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 & Web
Desktop – 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
Library showing all your documents (citation
or table view)
Filter your papers by authors, keywords,
tags, or publications
Creating Library- Adding papers
You 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…
Add tags & notes and edit document details
… and Mendeley will try to extract the
document details automatically
Supported Sites for Importing Documents
Synchronize and manage your library online
You can also add
references and
edit & manage your
library online
Synchronize
your library
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