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www.mendeley.com
Online Reference Management Tools in the Digital Era: Introduction to Mendeley
By
Jonathan Saina
Agenda
What is Mendeley?
Creating your Mendeley Account
Downloading Mendeley Desktop
Installing Mendeley Desktop
Configuring your Mendeley Application
Building your Library
Managing the documents in your Library
Inserting Citation
Inserting Bibliography
What is Mendeley?
• Mendeley is a free academic software used • to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your
research papers.• It is a workflow research tool and Academic
social network that helps you organize your documents and references
• It is a reference manager.• Organize your documents + references• Collaborate by joining + creating groups• Discover statistics + recommendations• Stay up to date + learn more• Store your data
What is Mendeley?
• Academic Software
• Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile)
• All Major Browsers
Mendeley is based in London, and was developed by over 30 researchers, graduates and software developers. It is backed by co-
founders and former executives of:
...and Supported by:
Things you could do with Mendeley
Overview
Using Mendeley
Things you could do with Mendeley
Add and Organize - Import and organize PDFs from your Computer and other storage devices.
Back up and Sync your resources - Access your papers anywhere, on other Computers or even your smart devices.
Reference Manager - Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, and other word processing applications.
Log into www.mendeley.comto create your free Account(Fill out the Form)
Fill out the
Form
First Name
Last Name
Password
(Complete the Online Form)
Field of Study
Academic Status
Enter current Institution
Save and continue
Create Account
Mendeley Web Account Interface
STEP 2
Download the Mendeley Desktop Software Applicationfromwww.mendeley.com
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STEP 3
Install Mendeley Desktop and sign into your Account.
1. Click on ‘Run’ to Install MendeleyDesktop
2. Click to open Mendeley Desktop and sign into your Account
STEP 4
Configure your Mendeley Desktop Application Software
1.Install MS Word Plugin – This enables your word document processor and Mendeley to communicate and work together in the citation processs
2. Install Web Importer – This enables
Mendeley grab citation off the web
1.The Web Importer helps you grab documents off the web.
2.The MS Word Plugin helps Mendeley to work with your Word Processor
(Configuration) Installing Web Importer and MS Word Plugin
How to confirm that the MS Word Plugin is installedOpen MS. Word on your PC and click on the References TAB
How to confirm that Mendeley Web Importer is installed
Open your web browser (chrome/firefox) you should
find mendeley icon on the navigation bar
STEP 5
Build your library
Before you start writing, you must have a well built Library in Mendeley where you can pick the citations to support your write-up and Bibliography to show documents cited.
Building your library means adding documents to your Mendeley Desktop Application
You have 5 different options for building your library:
1. Through documents in your computer2. Through documents in your external
storage device, eg, Flash drive, hard drive, CD or DVD
3. Through the Web using Web Importer4. Through manual method5. Having a watched folder for mendeley
to add files automatically that are stored there
Adding a watched folder on
desktop of your PC
Create a folder on desktop and rename it to
Mendeley watched
Open Mendeley Desktop software
Navigate to tools tab and click options
In the options pop up window, select
Mendeley watched menu and browse to the
location of the Mendeley watched folder
you created and Check
Click Okay
Everything you copy to that folder will be
automatically added to Mendeley
Web Importer and Syching
Every item added by web importer is stored into
mendeley web platform library.
In order to get both desktop version and web version
updated, it is important for you to Sync every time you
add something new to your library.
Star your favorite papers
Documents can be marked read/unread
Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
Managing the Documents in your Library
STEP 6Insert Citation
Citation will show up based on selected style
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STEP 7Click on ‘Insert Bibliography’ to insert cited works
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