Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. It allows researchers to organize research papers, collaborate with other researchers, and discover papers and trends. Mendeley can import papers from folders or databases, find metadata automatically, and synchronize a library across devices. Papers can be annotated, tagged, and searched. References can be cited in Word and other editors, and bibliographies created. Collections allow sharing papers with other researchers.

1. wants to help researchers
organize, share, and discover
research papers.
Add venue/date if needed

2. ▪ What is Mendeley?
▪ Creating your library
▪ Managing your documents & references
▪ Citing and sharing references
Agenda

3. What is Mendeley?

4. Based in London, Mendeley are 15 researchers, graduates and
software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:

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3) Last.fm builds your music
profile and recommends you
music you also could like... and
it’s the world‘s biggest open
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Mendeley

6. research libraries
researchers
papers
disciplines
music libraries
artists
songs
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Mendeley

7. What is Mendeley?
Mendeley is free academic software
(Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share,
read, annotate and cite your research
papers...
...and a research network to manage
your papers online, discover research
trends and statistics, and to connect to
like-minded researchers.

8. What is Mendeley?
Set up and manage your collections
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

9. Creating your library

10. Adding your papers
You have different options to set up your library:
• Add single files or an entire folder
• “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF files
• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases, or…
…drag & drop PDF files into the library pane…
… and Mendeley will try to extract the
document details automatically

11. Document details lookup
You can also try to complete the document
details by querying various databases
(Crossref, PubMed, ArXiv or Google Scholar)
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and
click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
And remember – made a
mistake?
Press CTRL+Z (or Edit > Undo)
to undo the last step

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 to
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. Synchronize and manage your library online
Synchronize
your library
You can also add
references and
edit & manage your
library online
In addition, you will get statistics
about your library, your impact
and your research field (see later)

15. Managing your documents & references

16. Manage your library
Star your favorite papers
Documents can be marked read/unread
Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

17. Search as you type

18. Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

19. Annotate and highlight

20. Mendeley‘s File Organizer
Mendeley can also organize
your PDF files in a consistent
folder structure on your hard
disk and rename them
according to their document
details
You can find the File Organizer in
Tools > Options > File Organizer

21. Citing and sharing references

22. Citing in Word & Open Office
Click on “Insert Citation” in Word
Highlight the paper you want to cite

23. Citing in Word & Open Office
“Send citation” to Word
Citation will show up based on selected style
Cite into Google documents
or other editors by copy & paste

24. Creating bibliographies
Insert a bibliography based on the citations

25. Public Collections (“Reading Lists”)
You can make a collection public in “Edit Settings”
View the collection online –
other users can subscribe via
clicking on “Subscribe” on
the collection page.
A Public Collection acts like a “Reading List” –
you can add references to the collection, and
users who have subscribed to this collection will
get the references pushed into their Mendeley
account. PDFs are not attached.

26. Shared Collections
A shared collection allows a
research group to create a private,
shared library and to
collaboratively edit and annotate
documents and references.
Only the members of this
collection can see it online

27. Create your professional research profile

28. Discover research statistics

29. Discover research statistics
What is your impact?

30. Leave feedback and see what’s coming next
Visit http://feedback.mendeley.com
to see what others are saying, leave
feedback, request features or report bugs

31. www.mendeley.com