www.mendeley.com

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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.

Your library

Organize your references into groups.

Your library

Add tags & notes and edit document details

Library with all your documents.

Your library

Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

Creating your library

You can add references in many ways:

• Add single files or an entire folder

You can also:• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS

databases• Use the Mendeley Web Importer to add

from online databases• Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog

Adding your papers

Best of all, you can drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop (it’s magic!) & Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically.

http://gettingstarted.mendeley.com/img/Win/img-drag.gif

Filling in the details: lookup

Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup

Missing info is added automatically

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 to your Mendeley library. If available, the associated PDF will be imported also.

Synchronize and manage your library online

You can add references & edit & manage your library online.

Manage your library

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight your PDFs

Manage your library

Star your favorite papers

Documents can be marked read/unread

Search your library- begins as soon as you type

Mendeley‘s File Organizer

You can find the File Organizer to create subfolders inTools > Options

Citing in Word & Open Office

Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite

Citing in Word & Open Office

Citation will appear in the style you selected.

To create a bibliography, just click at the end of your document!

Share references with Mendeley Groups

Groups can be private or public (invite only or open)

View the group online – other users can request to join or simply follow the activity of the group

Public groups only have the reference details – no full text. Private groups contain the full text, including notes & annotations.

Create your professional research profile

Search the Mendeley Research Catalog

Get readership information on papers

Leave feedback and see what’s coming nextVisit

http://feedback.mendeley.comto see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs.

Taubman Health Sciences Librarywww.lib.umich.edu/thlwww.guides.lib.umich.edu/mendeley