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wants to help researchersorganize, share, and
discover research papers.
Add venue/date if needed
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Agenda

• What is Mendeley?
• Creating your library
• Managing your documents references
• Citing and sharing references

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What is Mendeley?
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Based in London, Mendeley are 15 researchers,
graduates and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and former executives of
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works like this
3) Last.fm builds your music profile and
recommends you music you also could like... and
its the worlds biggest open music database
1) Install Audioscrobbler
2) Listen to music
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research libraries
music libraries
researchers
artists
papers
songs
disciplines
genres
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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.
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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
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Creating your library
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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
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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 CTRLZ (or
Edit gt Undo) to undo the last step
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Web Importer
www.mendeley.com/import
To install the Web Importer, drag drop the
bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarks in your
internet browser
The Web Importer helps you to grab citations off
the web
Supported sites
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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.
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Synchronize and manage your library online
You can also add references and edit manage
your library online
Synchronize your library
In addition, you will get statistics about your
library, your impact and your research field (see
later)
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Managing your documents references
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Manage your library
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer
Star your favorite papers
Documents can be marked read/unread
Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
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Search as you type
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Full text search in Mendeleys PDF viewer
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Annotate and highlight
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Mendeleys 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 gt
Options gt File Organizer
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Citing and sharing references
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Citing in Word Open Office
Click on Insert Citation in Word
Highlight the paper you want to cite
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Citing in Word Open Office
Send citation to Word
Citation will show up based on selected style
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Creating bibliographies
Insert a bibliography based on the citations
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Public Collections (Reading Lists)
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.
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Shared Collections
Only the members of this collection can see it
online
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Create your professional research profile
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Discover research statistics
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Discover research statistics
What is your impact?
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Leave feedback and see whats coming next
Visit http//feedback.mendeley.com to see what
others are saying, leave feedback, request
features or report bugs
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