mendeley for librarians
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This is a narration of the slides presented for the Mendeley for Librarians instructional session.TRANSCRIPT
Just started using Mendeley. How come I was never told about such a great tool?
@litreviewhq I haven't heard of Mendeley but it could be exactly what I'm looking for... Thanks!
@enkerli I *love* Mendeley. It's the best thing that has happened to reference management since EndNote
Just fyi, Mendeley is pretty awesome on searching research: http://t.co/l0VoRGU
@AmandaMichelle I love Mendeley: love the web importer, use it across devices (phone/ipad), and to share readings w/advisors, etc. #phdchat I friggin' LOVE
Mendeley!! http://amplicate.com/love/mendeley
What you will learn
• What problems Mendeley solves
• What technology Mendeley uses
• How Mendeley compares
• How to teach others about Mendeley.
Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and former executives
of:
Supported by:
Connecting Scholars in the Cloud
• Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t.
• Databases have incomplete metadata, incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights.
• Capture the latent info in their process!
...and aggregates research
data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data…
Mendeley is not just a reference manager!
Install Mendeley Desktop
What is Mendeley?
• Mendeley Web: A research catalog of 100M documents from 1M researchers, 80K collaborative groups.
• Mendeley Desktop: A bit of software that organizes PDFs and helps you write papers.
Set up and manage your reference groups
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
Mendeley Desktop
7 ways to add documents to Mendeley
You have different options to set up your library:
• Add single files or an entire folder • “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF
files• Drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop
… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically
You can also:• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases• Sync with other reference management
webapps• Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from
online databases• Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/
What happens when you add PDFs to Mendeley?
EXTRACT
UPLOAD
Document details lookup
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
Missing info is added automatically
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 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.
Citing in Word & Open Office
Citing in Word & Open Office
Citation will show up based on selected style
Cite into Google documents
or other editors by copy & paste
Generate a bibliography in one click!
Mendeley and Endnote
• Why spend money if good free tools exist?
• Overkill for just collecting papers and inserting citations
• Beholden to their existing base, can’t innovate
• Tools of scholarship should be in the hands of scholars!
Citation Style Language
• CSL is a markup language, like HTML, but for citation info.
• Developed by Bruce D’Arcus, first implemented by Zotero
• Open format
• Tools for scholarly communication by and for scholars.
Citation Style Language
• Implements CSL• Ships with thousands of styles• Develops citation style processor
code• Supports community in development
of styles
Mendeley…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthimeria/4037927941/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntenny/2956072015/
Mendeley Web
• Crowdsourced catalog of research
• A social network of researchers and documents
• A web service for research data & stats
Mendeley Web is three things…
Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time
ReaderMeter.org
We’re in this for the long haul
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/delfo/153254882/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shootingbrooklyn/3958188003/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalyan02/4741751904/
Select relation:
supportsrefutescomplementsuses same method...
Result:A human-curated,
constantly evolving semantic article
database
JISC DURA Project
http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com
Add Mendeley to your library website.
Join the Mendeley for Librarians Group
This is a private librarian-only group so members can share presentations and documents. We’ll send everyone an invite via email.
