Mendeley Reference ManagerGetting started!

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November 18, 2015

Outline

• Mendeley; an introduction

• Getting started• Building profile

• Creating library

• Managing documents and references

• Inserting citations and generating bibliography

• Sharing data with groups

• Demonstration of important procedures

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Introduction

Introduction

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Introduction

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How Mendeley helps

1. All your research in one place• Work from different workstations, 2GB of personal workspace

2. Read and annotate on the go• Highlight, annotate and add sticky notes

3. Citation and bibliographies• The style of your choice, compatible with text editor e.g. MS Word

4. Sharing and collaboration• Share reading lists, references or full-text articles

5. Showcasing your work• Connect with colleagues, peers or classmates, share your published research

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Getting started

Installation

• Make an account and public profile @ https://www.mendeley.com• Online maintenance of library, sharing, collaboration etc.

• Download the installation file • https://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/

• Installing word plugin• Close MS Word

• Mendeley Desktop go to Tools > Install <Your text processor> Plugin.

• On text processor, go to View > Toolbars and select the Mendeley toolbar.

• You should then be able to see the buttons 'Insert Citation', 'Insert Bibliography', etc.

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Creating library

• Adding files for Citation and referencing • Search literature through Mendeley’s Literature Search

Citation data auto generated

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Creating library

• Adding files for Citation and referencing • Search literature through Mendeley’s Literature Search

• Manually add/import files Add only citation data

Journals, magazinesprovide citation filesfor each of their publication

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Creating library

• Adding files for Citation and referencing • Search literature through Mendeley’s Literature Search

• Manually add/import files Import PDF and Mendeley generates the citation data

Article also included in library for reading/ reviewing

Works well for most documents, older documents converted to PDF from other formats (scans, images) often fails to capture the required citation information. As a result manual correction/ update of data is required.

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Creating library

• Adding files for Citation and referencing • Search literature through Mendeley’s Literature Search

• Manually add/import files

• Web Importer• The Web Importer lets you import references and documents from over 30

academic databases.

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Managing documents and references

• Organize into folders

• Mark documents as read/ un-read

• Watch folders option allows automatic import of PDFs into Mendeley once any new file is added to the folder “being watched”

• Sorting files into folders based on authors, journals

• Variety of citation styles

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Inserting citations & generating bibliographies

• In text editor e.g. MS Word 2013• References > Insert citation

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Inserting citations & generating bibliographies

• In text editor e.g. MS Word 2013• References > Insert citation

Search by author, title or year in My LibraryAdd multiple citations

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Inserting citations & generating bibliographies

• In text editor e.g. MS Word 2013• References > Insert citation

Search by author, title or year in My Library

Directly go to Mendeley and select the file

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Sharing reference with group

• Create group

• Discover group

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For more help!

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Thank you

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Credits

• Mendeley desktop

• Mendeley web @ https://www.mendeley.com

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