Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that allows users to organize research papers, collaborate with other researchers, and discover research trends. It has over 5.6 million users. Mendeley can be used via a web interface or desktop app to organize papers and citations, and includes tools like a web importer and MS Word plugin to easily cite sources and generate bibliographies. The platform aims to improve research workflows and enable knowledge sharing.

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Mendeley Overview
VISHAL GUPTA
Customer Consultant
South Asia
Mendeley Profile: <www.mendeley.com>

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What is Mendeley?

3. It’s time to change the way we do research.
Why is Mendeley important?
Content and workflow tools that improve the efficiency and outcomes for
researchers
Apply for
grants
Search &
discover
Read &
evaluate
FTA’s
Share,
collect &
store
Write Submit
Review &
publish
Manage
my career
& network
Current
awareness
Researcher-centricity as the key concept behind our activities and
products – looking at the whole picture of the researcher’s
workflow!

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What is Mendeley?
Mendeley is a reference manager
allowing you to manage, read, share,
annotate and cite your research papers...
...and a social & academic
collaboration network with more
than 5.6 Million users to connect like-
minded researchers & discover
research trends and statistics.
… forming a crowdsourced database
with a unique layer of social research
information and an Open API

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Mendeley’s Three Key Values
Reference manager
“Drives Researcher
Productivity”
Social, Research
Network & Groups
“Enables Collaboration
and Knowledge Sharing”
Research Data & API
“Creates Additional
Insights & Build Apps”

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How to use Mendeley?

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Creating a free Profile

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Creating a free Profile

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Creating a free Profile
“Preferably, Use your institutional ID. You may also use your personal IDs. Please note
that the email ID used is only a username”

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Creating a free Profile
“Kindly fill up all details in step by step as asked. Fill in each and every detail correctly”

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Mendeley- How to use(App and web version)
The web version can
be accessed at
www.mendeley.com
The application needs
to be downloaded and
can even be used
when offline.

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Using Mendeley
“This is how the home screen looks after logging in to Mendeley.”

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Using Mendeley
Academic Job Portal
Global Funding
opportunities details
Please surf on your
own. Search can be
made by
qualification,
location, subject
area, position,
experience etc.
Search for funding
opportunities based
on subject area, field
of specialization,
location, citizenship,
position etc. Details
on next page.

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Funding
Click here

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Funding
There are about 20
subject categories
further sub-categorized
into 400 specific
research areas to
choose.

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Funding
Click here to expand a
particular subject into
sub categories
Choose your preferred
sub-category
Click on results to get
all funding
opportunities available
in the selected
category globally.

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Funding
Choose
India

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Funding
Choose from
applicable
Categories like
Graduate
students, Post
graduate
students, Early
career
researchers,
Experienced or
mid-category
researchers,
women
scientists etc.

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Funding
Title of the
funding
Funding Agency
Funding
amount
Funding type
Days left
to apply
for this
funding

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Downloading the app- From
Homepage

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How to open the App
Once you have
downloaded the app, you
can see a shortcut on your
desktop
Clicking on the
icon opens the
application-
Mendeley
Desktop

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How to use the app- Adding files to
library
To add
documents to the
library, just drag
the files or folder
from your
desktop and drop
here
You may also use
these icons to add
documents/folders

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How to use the app- Creating Citations
and Bibliography Install Web importer and
MS Word Plugin

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How to use the app- Web Importer
Web
importer Icon
The web importer is added as an add in extension to your browser(eg. Chrome) that
helps saving PDF Files/Citation information directly from any website to Mendeley.

25. It’s time to change the way we do research.
How to use the app- MS Word Plugin
Under the tab “References”, you can find “Mendeley Cite-o-matic” which appears only
after you install MS Word plugin from Mendeley Desktop app. This tab can be used to
insert citations and create bibliography automatically.

26. It’s time to change the way we do research.
Thank you
www.mendeley.com