Mendeley for Librarians

Mendeley for Librarians
May 20th 2011
William GunnHead of Academic Outreach
william.gunn@mendeley.com

Just started using Mendeley. How come I was never told about such a great tool?
@litreviewhq I haven't heard of Mendeley but it could be exactly what I'm looking for... Thanks!
@enkerli I *love* Mendeley. It's the best thing that has happened to reference management since EndNote
Just fyi, Mendeley is pretty awesome on searching research: http://t.co/l0VoRGU
@AmandaMichelle I love Mendeley: love the web importer, use it across devices (phone/ipad), and to share readings w/advisors, etc. #phdchat
I friggin' LOVE Mendeley!!
http://amplicate.com/love/mendeley

What you will learn
What problems Mendeley solves
What technology Mendeley uses
How Mendeley compares
How to teach others about Mendeley.

Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...
Supported by:
...backed by co-founders and former executives of:

Connecting Scholars in the Cloud
Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t.
Databases have incomplete metadata, incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights.
Capture the latent info in their process!

Mendeley is not just a reference manager!
...and aggregates research data in the cloud
Install Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley extracts research data…

What is Mendeley?
Mendeley Web: A research catalog of 100M documents from 1M researchers, 80K collaborative groups.
Mendeley Desktop: A bit of software that organizes PDFs and helps you write papers.

Mendeley Desktop
Set up and manage your reference groups
Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Add tags & notes and edit document details
Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

7 ways to add documents to Mendeley
You have different options to set up your library:
Add single files or an entire folder
“Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF files
Drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop
… and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically
You can also:
Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases
Sync with other reference management webapps
Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from online databases
Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

What happens when you add PDFs to Mendeley?
EXTRACT
UPLOAD

Document details lookup
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
Missing info is added automatically

Web Importer
www.mendeley.com/import
To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarks
in your internet browser
Supported sites
The Web Importer helps you grab citations off the web

Usingthe 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.

Citing in Word & Open Office

Citing in Word & Open Office
Citation will show up based on selected style
Generate a bibliography in one click!
Cite into Google documents
or other editors by copy & paste

Mendeley and Endnote
Why spend money if good free tools exist?
Overkill for just collecting papers and inserting citations
Beholden to their existing base, can’t innovate
Tools of scholarship should be in the hands of scholars!

Citation Style Language
CSL is a markup language, like HTML, but for citation info.
Developed by Bruce D’Arcus, first implemented by Zotero
Open format
Tools for scholarly communication by and for scholars.

Citation Style Language
Mendeley…
Implements CSL
Ships with thousands of styles
Develops citation style processor code
Supports community in development of styles

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthimeria/4037927941/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntenny/2956072015/

Mendeley Web
Mendeley Web is three things…
Crowdsourced catalog of research
A social network of researchers and documents
A web service for research data & stats

Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

ReaderMeter.org

We’re in this for the long haul
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/delfo/153254882/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shootingbrooklyn/3958188003/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalyan02/4741751904/

Select relation:
supports
refutes
complements
uses same method
...
Result:
A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database

http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com
JISC DURA Project

Add Mendeley to your library website.

Integrate set workshops into your curriculum
Email andrew.bennie@mendeley.com with questions

Join the Mendeley for Librarians Group
This is a private librarian-only group so members can share presentations and documents. We’ll send everyone an invite via email.

www.mendeley.com
william.gunn@mendeley.com

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