2. What is Mendeley?
• Mendeley is a free reference
manager and academic social
network
• Organize your research
• Collaborate with others online
• Discover the latest research
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3. Mendeley Vs Other Reference
Managers
Pros
• Easy to use
• Extracts metadata from PDFs
• Access your library from anywhere
• Annotate and make comments on the papers
stored in your library
• Explore similar research and researchers in
your field (web)
• MS Word plugin easy to install
Pros
• Supports Harvard UCT output style
• Easy export from databases
• More output styles available
• Output styles more accurate (but not perfect!)
Cons
• Output style varies
• Requires work to fix the metadata
• Cannot search in folders when inserting
citations in MS Word
• What you put in is what you get out!
Cons
• Not as easy to use
• WNC 4 (Ms Word plugin) only compatible with MS
Word 2014
• Manually attach PDFs (limited space)
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4. What can you do with
Mendeley?
• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research
software
• Find relevant papers based on what you’re
reading
• Access your papers from anywhere online
• Read papers on the go, with the new iPhone
app
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9. Mendeley Web
• Allows you to read your papers
•Upload your own papers (papers written
by you)
•Discover new research
•Connect with researchers in your field
(Social Networking)
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11. My Library
• My Library is your database of
references and PDFs
•You can:
•Add new papers
•Create and organise them into folder
•Review the metadata
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20. Accessing full text found in Mendeley
via UCT Libraries
Mendeley Web
Account Settings
Account Details
Sharing/ import
Add link
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21. If you are not on-campus, add
the link below
http://uctsfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/uct
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31. Importing from the Web
• http://www.mendeley.com/import/
• This works best with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
• Install from Mendeley Desktop
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39. Mendeley Desktop
• Harnesses the metadata (information about the information) to
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40. Manage Your Library
Create category folders
See what type of document is attached
(.pdf, .ppt, .docx, excel, etc.)
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer
Star favorites
Mark as read/unread
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42. If you save all your documents to one folder you
can use the “Watch Folder” option to
automatically add references to Mendeley
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45. File Organizer
Creates a copy of your PDF, exclusively for Mendeley. Mendeley uses this file location for
the PDF, as opposed to the original
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46. The Drag & Drop
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We’re back to your Library View now. In Mendeley desktop, you create category folders to organize your articles by topic, author, or anything else you choose to name your folder. You can mark documents as read or unread by clicking the little green button next to the article. You can also star your favorite papers. You can attach different types of documents to a reference. If you see a little pdf icon next to the title, that means the full document is available for you to view in Mendeley. I’ll show you how to do that in a minute.
As you can see, we’ve paid a lot of attention to features that allow you to easily search and filter your references within Mendeley desktop. There’s an additional option that can be found in the Preferences menu that allows you to keep the actual PDFs sorted on your computer nicely organized. By selecting the desired location and file name and folder structure, Mendeley uses the reference metadata to rename and rewrite the folder and files to your selections.