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 & WebDesktop – 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

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

Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

Creating Library- Adding papersYou 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…

… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically

Add tags & notes and edit document details

Supported Sites for Importing Documents

Synchronize and manage your library online

Synchronize

your library

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

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