MEDELAY IS A SOFTWARE FOR MAINTAINING REFERENCES

1. www.mendeley.com
JUNAID MAQBOOL
University institute of engineering and technology
Email: maqbooljunaid@gmail.com
Website: http://junaidmaqbool.com
Feb 2020

2. Comparison
Managing reference Managing reference Managing research Managing research
Managing research

3. Search/
Recommendations
Reference/PDF
Management
Collaboration
Writing/
Bibliographies
Mendeley is not just a reference manager!
aggregates research
data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts
research data…
Install
Mendeley
Desktop

4. 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!

5. 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.
You can work OFFLINE too!!

6. HANDS ON DEMONSTRATION
http://www.mendeley.com/
Download your Mendeley here
Part 1: Mendeley Desktop

7. Choose how
to sign up
For sign up using email  Go to your email
inbox and verify your registration
Sign Up and Download Mendeley

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

9. 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/

10. What happens when you add PDFs
to Mendeley?
EXTRAC
T
UPLOAD

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

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

13. Using the 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.

14. Reviewing Papers

15. Searching keywords, authors,
documents, etc.

16. Watch Folders
File  Watched Folders
If you save your pdfs to the same folder, you can identify
this folder and Mendeley will automatically add this pdf to
your library

17. Insert Citations in Your Articles
• Install the Word or Open Office plug-in (This installs tool bar
buttons that will allow you to cite a document and generate a bibliography)

18. Cite Whoever You Want!!!

19. Select the citation style in the drop down menu in
your word processor
Generate a bibliography by clicking insert
bibliography

20. More Citation Styles

21. Part 2: Mendeley Web

22. Mendeley Web Interface

24. Searching Papers – see what others
read!!

25. Tips on future ‘inner peace’
• Manage your literature database everyday –
identify your ‘lazy’ time
• Correct a small mistake – don’t wait
• Backup your writing/data – eg: dropbox, email,
skydrive (25gb)
• Love yourself – “we are not going to solve the
world problem”

26. References
http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/
http://blog.mendeley.com/
JUNAID MAQBOOL
M.E UIET
Email: maqbooljunaid@gmail.com
Website: http://junaidmaqbool.com
Or Google me : JUNAID MAQBOOL