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Manage your Research Articles: Using Mendeley

Fall Term 2012

Helen B. Josephine

helenj@stanford.edu

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Why use a citation manager?

Organize and tag citations AND documents. Create instant bibliographies in standard

formats. Create personal citation database of articles

on your topics. Format papers with in-text citations and

bibliographies in standard formats. Share your database of citations/articles with

others.

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Desktop client and personal web space Compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux Storage and backup of your papers and

citations (7GB) Create public and private groups to share

papers and citations (10 private groups/15 users per group)

Citation styles for +1000 journals Generate citations and bibliographies in

Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.4

Join Mendeley @ Stanford Group

Increased storage (7GB) for free Find it at Stanford links activated for faster

full-text access Discover colleagues at Stanford with your

research interests Create a private group to share articles,

comments on PDFs Create your own research profile to highlight

your articles5

Mendeley Hints Add and Organize: Import and organize PDFs from

your computer, EndNote, Papers or Zotero. Use Mendeley Tool bar to select multiple items to add

to your library. Collaborate: Connect with colleagues; securely share

your papers, notes and annotations. Explore research trends and statistics Search for papers within Mendeley, see what you are

missing "auto watches" a specific folder(s)- save a PDF to that

folder, it is automatically imported into your library (with metadata).

Backup, Sync, and Mobile: Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.

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Mendeley Hints

Seven Ways to add documents

1. Single document (drag & drop)

2. Create “watch” folder on desktop

3. Folders (drag & drop)

4. Import Endnote library

5. Synch with Zotero

6. Use web import tool bar

7. Search your topic in Mendeley7

Who Uses Mendeley?

1,804,391 members 154,835 research groups 259,953,470 user documents

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Who Uses Mendeley?

By Discipline:Biological Sciences: 12,459,724 papers · 9,473 groups Education: 713,934 papers · 2,369 groups Engineering: 2,056,586 papers · 3,728 groups Social Sciences: 1,756,508 papers · 3,497 groups

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Video Tutorials

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EXAMPLES

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Questions/Comments?

helenj@stanford.edu http://englib.stanford.edu