MendeleyCitation Management and Research Network

Helen Smith

Life Sciences LibraryPenn State University

Mendeley

• Free Desktop software for Windows, Mac & Linux (will charge in future but what is free now will remain free)

• Manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers

• Houses citations locally, but can sync to an online library for sharing with others

• Powerful PDF viewer• Can export citations in various formats• Also a web based research network where

you can share collections, collaborate with colleagues around the world, and discover research trends and statistics.

Capturing Citations

• Export citations directly from many databases via “bookmarklet”

• Import citations saved as a text file• Manual• Drag and drop PDFs into a folder and

Mendeley extracts document details, keywords and cited references. It also looks up Cross-Ref DOIs, arXiv IDs and PubMed document details automatically.

• Can also have specific folders “watched” so that when PDFs are added, they are automatically added to database

• Syncs with Zotero library or Cite-U-Like

MANAGE LIBRARY

• Mark papers as “read” or “unread”, and “star” papers to mark favorites

• Tag and group papers into labeled collections

• Attach PDFs and other files to citations• Add notes and tags to citations• Sync desktop library with your Mendeley

Web account, so you can access and manage your resources from everywhere

• Keep your library database synchronized across multiple computers and even different operating systems.

MANAGE AND VIEW PDFS

• Full-text searching of PDFs• Rename PDFs based on bib data, e.g.

“Author - Year - Title.pdf”, and sort them into corresponding folders on your computer

• Use the integrated PDF viewer to• Capture comments and ideas on yellow

sticky notes• Highlight important passages with a

text marker

ASSIST OUTPUT

• Plug-in module works with Microsoft Word for Windows, and OpenOffice for Windows and Mac

• Easily create bibliographies

• Easily change citation styles – hundreds of styles available

SHAREPublic reading lists & RSS feeds

• Create public collections of research papers, embed them on your blog

• Subscribe to other public collection updates

• Perfect for journal clubs, sharing reading lists with students, or making your labs’ research output available as RSS feeds.

SHARE

Closed & secure research collaboration space

• Create a closed Shared Collection and invite colleagues

• Share notes and annotations with members• Every member of the Shared Collection has

synchronized access to the files and will be able to search, tag, edit, and annotate them in Mendeley Desktop

• Assign tasks and discuss research right in Mendeley Web

• Project updates are delivered to your personalized Mendeley Web Dashboard in real time.

Discover

Your own research profile: Build your academic CV on Mendeley to let others discover your expertise and increase your visibility in the scholarly community.

Statistics: Interesting statistics about your article collection and the most read articles, authors, and publication outlets in your discipline.

Network with fellow researchers: Find the top experts on any subject, see who’s researching what, build your personal research network and stay up to date about your colleagues’ work.

Mendeley is one stop shopping for:

Citation Management

PDF Viewing

Creating bibliographies

Sharing collections with colleagues

Networking

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