Mendeley Presentation - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

MendeleyOrganise, share, discover

Cambridge 27th July 2012

Nathalie Cornée & Guilhem ChalanconMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Just started using Mendeley. How come I was never told about such a great tool?

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Mendeley: love the web importer, use it across devices (phone/ipad), and to share readings w/advisors, etc. #phdchat I friggin' LOVE

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Agenda

• What is Mendeley?

• Getting Started

• Creating your library

• Managing/organising your documents and references

• Citing References & generating bibliographies

• Annotating PDFs

• Sharing References and collaborating using groups

• Mendeley as a social network for researchers

• Overall advantages of Mendeley

What is Mendeley?

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is free academic software (Win, Mac & Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android) 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.

Based in London & New York, Mendeley is start-up made of researchers, graduates and software developers from...

...backed by co-founders and former executives of:

...supported by:

What is Mendeley?

Store once – access anywhere

Getting started

Getting started

Sign up and download• 500MB personal storage + 500MB shared storage• www.mendeley.com• Enter your details, follow instructions to download the Desktop

application for your OS

3 things to download:• Mendeley Desktop Application• Mendeley Web Importer• Plugins for Word/LibreOffice Writer

Getting started - The Web side

Mendeley on the web provides :

• A research catalogue of 100M documents from 1M researchers, 80K collaborative groups

• Statistics and paper suggestions based on what's in your library

• A personal profile page

Contacts

Search

Groups

Your publications

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

Getting started - The Desktop side

Check for duplicates

Creating your library

Import papers in your library from anywhere!

http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

Import papers in your library from anywhere!

Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup

Missing info is added automatically

Import papers – document detail lookup

Discover papers with Mendeley Suggests

Managing your documents and references

Managing your documents and references

Create folders• Folders allow you to organise and

filter your references (e.g by project)

• Manipulating folders and references is largely a matter of dragging and dropping

• Mark items ‘as read’ or ‘as favourites’

Search your Library• Add your own tags to records to

make them easier to find

Managing your library

Star your favorite papers

Documents can be marked read/unread

Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

Searching as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Mendeley‘s File Organizer

You can find the File Organizer inTools > Options > File Organizer

Managing your documents and references

Remember to Sync!

• When you open Mendeley Desktop it will sync with your library in the cloud

• The desktop software operates in an ‘offline’ mode

• Once Mendeley Desktop is launched, synchronization between desktop and web is not automated

• So… remember to hit the ‘Sync’ button

Synchronize and manage your library online

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

Citing References

Citing in Word & Libre Office

Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite

Citation will show up based on selected style

Cite into Google documents

or other editors by copy & paste

Generate a bibliography in one click!

Citing in Word & Libre Office

Citing in Word & Libre Office

Annotating PDFs

Annotating PDFs

PDF Viewer• View, annotate and highlight PDF documents

directly (no need for another PDF reader)

• Save and print your annotations• Share the annotations in groups (Copyright!)

Annotate and highlight

Sharing References

Send a reference to your contacts

Manage Groups from Mendeley Desktop

Manage Groups from Mendeley Web

You can also create groups online.

Collaborating via Mendeley Groups

Join interest groups on Mendeley Web• Find out more about researchers in your field• See what colleagues are reading• >48,000 public groups sorted by discipline!

Private and public options• Invite-only (limited number / account)• Open

Mendeley as a social network for researchers

Get readership information on papers

Follow what your peers are reading

Join Group Newsfeed

Build your online presence

Highly ranked in Google searches

View Profile: Research field, Publications, Awards and Grants, Biographical

Information, CV, Contact Information

Link out your activity on social networks

Statistics

Statistics

Statistics

Martin Fenner, PLoS Blogs,Gobbledygook

Overall advantages of Mendeley

Why choose Mendeley?

Free of charge (contrary to Refworks, Endnote, Papers etc.)

Is it better than other free packages (Zotero etc)?

-> Cross platform compatible (Win/Mac/Lin)-> Compatible with Open/Libre Office and MS word-> Social networking and collaboration features-> Already in use by other colleagues

http://dev.mendeley.com/

Have a look to what the community is developing!

Leave feedback and see what’s coming nextVisit

http://feedback.mendeley.comto see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs.

www.mendeley.com