Mendeley is a bibliographic management tool that allows users to organize papers and citations, create bibliographies, and integrate with Word. It provides searchable full-text storage and allows users to collaborate by joining groups. Mendeley also functions as a social network for researchers to find others with similar interests.

1. Mendeley
Allan Parsons

2. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the bibliographic entity…
Mendeley is a bibliographic management
tool, enabling you:
• to cite a text
• to create a bibliography of citations
• to ‘write and cite’ (integrate with Word)

3. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the text…
Mendeley is a concept management
tool, enabling you:
• to filter textual content (using tags)
• to search textual content
• to collate texts for literature search

4. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the text collection…
Mendeley is an information management and
knowledge management tool, enabling you:
• to organise a collection of texts (Tags)
• to classify sub-collections (Groups and
Folders)

5. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the database…
Mendeley forms a research database,
enabling you:
• to search the collective, crowd-sourced
database
• to join groups and benefit from others’
collections

6. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the network…
Mendeley is a professional social
network, enabling you:
• to find other researchers with
similar interests
• to collaborate with other
researchers

7. What Is Mendeley?
As an element in your relational,
professional identity…
Mendeley can be integrated with,
for example,
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

8. Step 1: Join Mendeley Online

9. Step 1: Join Mendeley Online
Name and Email

10. Step 1: Join Mendeley Online
Password and Download

11. Step 2: Create a Profile

12. Step 2: Create a Profile

13. Step 3: Start Collecting
• Bookmarks toolbar
• Direct from database
• Download PDF, drag and drop
• Download PDF, add file
• Download PDF, watch folder
• Transfer existing collection
• Manually add record

14. Step 3: Start Collecting
Bookmarks toolbar

15. Step 3: Start Collecting
Direct from database
Click on database name

16. Step 3: Start Collecting
Conduct search and click on Abstract

17. Step 3: Start Collecting
Click on Mendeley icon

18. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, drag and drop
Drag file and drop in Mendeley

19. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, add files
Click on File, then Add Files, then select files

20. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, watch folder
Click on File, then Watch folder, then select folder from list

21. Step 4: Bibliographic Management
Set bibliographic style
Click on View, click on Citation Style, then select preferred style

22. Step 4: Bibliographic Management
Edit bibliographic record
Match details from PDF text to
fields in bibliographic record,
correcting where necessary

23. Step 5: Information Management
Add tags

24. Step 5: Information Management
Check consistency of tags

25. Step 6: Synchronise desktop and web

26. Step 7: Create Group
Desktop
Online

27. Step 8: Join Group

28. Step 9: Mendeley Suggest

29. Step 10: Write and Cite Add-on
Click on Tools, then click on Install MS Word Plugin