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www.mendeley.com
Online Reference Management Tools in the Digital Era: Introduction to Mendeley By Jonathan Saina
SLIDE 2 Agenda
- What is Mendeley?
- Creating your Mendeley Account
- Downloading Mendeley Desktop
- Installing Mendeley Desktop
- Configuring your Mendeley Application
- Building your Library
- Managing the documents in your Library
- Inserting Citation
- Inserting Bibliography
SLIDE 3 What is Mendeley?
- Mendeley is a free academic software used
- to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your
research papers.
- It is a workflow research tool and Academic
social network that helps you organize your documents and references
- It is a reference manager.
- Organize your documents + references
- Collaborate by joining + creating groups
- Discover statistics + recommendations
- Stay up to date + learn more
- Store your data
SLIDE 4 What is Mendeley?
- Academic Software
- Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile)
- All Major Browsers
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Mendeley is based in London, and was developed by over 30 researchers, graduates and software developers. It is backed by co- founders and former executives of: ...and Supported by:
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Things you could do with Mendeley
Overview
Using Mendeley
SLIDE 7 Things you could do with Mendeley
Add and Organize - Import and organize PDFs from
your Computer and other storage devices.
Back up and Sync your resources - Access your
papers anywhere, on other Computers or even your smart devices.
Reference Manager - Generate citations and
bibliographies in Microsoft Word, and other word processing applications.
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STEP 1 Create your Mendeley Web Account in www.mendeley.com
SLIDE 9 Log into www.mendeley.com to create your free Account (Fill out the Form)
Fill out the Form
Email First Name Last Name Password
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Field of Study Academic Status Enter current Institution
Save and continue
Create Account
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Mendeley Web Account Interface
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Download the Mendeley Desktop Software Application from
www.mendeley.com
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Install Mendeley Desktop and sign into your Account.
- 1. Click on ‘Run’ to Install Mendeley
Desktop
- 2. Click to open Mendeley Desktop and sign
into your Account
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Configure your Mendeley Desktop Application Software
1.Install MS Word Plugin – This enables your
word document processor and Mendeley to communicate and work together in the citation processs
2. Install Web Importer – This enables
Mendeley grab citation off the web
SLIDE 15 1.The Web Importer helps you grab documents off the web. 2.The MS Word Plugin helps Mendeley to work with your Word Processor
(Configuration) Installing Web Importer and MS Word Plugin
SLIDE 16 How to confirm that the MS Word Plugin is installed
Open MS. Word on your PC and click on the References TAB
SLIDE 17 How to confirm that Mendeley Web Importer is installed
Open your web browser (chrome/firefox) you should find mendeley icon on the navigation bar
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STEP 5 Build your library
Before you start writing, you must have a well built Library in Mendeley where you can pick the citations to support your write-up and Bibliography to show documents cited.
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Building your library means adding documents to your Mendeley Desktop Application You have 5 different options for building your library: 1. Through documents in your computer 2. Through documents in your external storage device, eg, Flash drive, hard drive, CD or DVD 3. Through the Web using Web Importer 4. Through manual method 5. Having a watched folder for mendeley to add files automatically that are stored there
SLIDE 20 Adding a watched folder on desktop of your PC
Create a folder on desktop and rename it to
Mendeley watched
Open Mendeley Desktop software Navigate to tools tab and click options In the options pop up window, select
Mendeley watched menu and browse to the location of the Mendeley watched folder you created and Check
Click Okay Everything you copy to that folder will be
automatically added to Mendeley
SLIDE 21 Web Importer and Syching
Every item added by web importer is stored into
mendeley web platform library.
In order to get both desktop version and web version
updated, it is important for you to Sync every time you add something new to your library.
SLIDE 22 Star your favorite papers Documents can be marked read/unread Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
Managing the Documents in your Library
SLIDE 23 STEP 6 Insert Citation
Citation will show up based on selected style
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SLIDE 24 STEP 7 Click on ‘Insert Bibliography’ to insert cited works
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