Mendeley & reference_management_@_phd-event_21st_may_version2

Reference Management

Jeannette Ekstrøm

[email protected]

Phone: 4525 7416

mailto:[email protected]

DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark

Is there an easier and more effective way ??


Agenda

•Why Reference Management?

•Which systems/support are available throughthe Library?

– Introduction to Mendeley

– Comparing with features from RefWorks

•Questions


Why manage your references ?

• When you begin your research, it´s important to record the details of all the information you find

• You will need these details for accurate referencing, and it will enable you to locate the information again later

• Reference management software allows you to manage all the references you need for your papers, reports, essays or thesis

• Keep them in your own personal database or library

– Searching / retrieving a particular reference

– print or save a list of references

– insert citations into your document and automatically produce a bibliography in whatever style you require


Diagram developed by and made available from the United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx


Formality in academic writing

• Academic writing is expected to be precise, semi-formal, impersonal, and objective

• Parts of a paper

– Titel

– Abstract

– Introduction

– Methods

– Results

– Discussion

– Conclusion

– Bibliography

• Standing on the shoulders of Giants- therefore documentation and citation is important


- An example


- different output style in bibliographiesNature Nández, G. & Borrego, Á. Use of social networks for academic purposes: a case study. Electron. Libr.31, 781–791 (2013).

IEEE[1] G. Nández and Á. Borrego, “Use of social networks for academic purposes: a case study,” Electron. Libr., vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 781–791, 2013.

PlosONENández G, Borrego Á (2013) Use of social networks for academic purposes: a case study. Electron Libr 31: 781–791. Available: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/EL-03-2012-0031. Accessed 2 May 2014.

Engineering in Life Sciences[1] Nández, G., Borrego, Á., Use of social networks for academic purposes: a case study. Electron. Libr. 2013, 31, 781–791.

American Political Science AssociationNández, Gemma, and Ángel Borrego. 2013. “Use of Social Networks for Academic Purposes: A Case Study.” Electronic Library, The 31(6): 781–91. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/EL-03-2012-0031 (May 2, 2014).

APA 6th edition – American Psychological Association Nández, G., & Borrego, Á. (2013). Use of social networks for academic purposes: a case study. Electronic Library, The, 31(6), 781–791. doi:10.1108/EL-03-2012-0031


Question

Mendeley or RefWorks output styles whenwriting and citing


Ask yourself this ?

• Is building and maintaining a reference database going to help you get organised?

• Will you benefit from learning how to use a tool likeMendeley or RefWorks?

• Will it be easier in your work / your research to keeptrack of your references - including writing and citing !

•Only you can decide what will work for you


Reference management &

Support from DTU Library

http://www.dtic.dtu.dk/english/dtu_staff


Mendeley

….RefWorks, Endnote via Web of Science, Reference Manager, Zotero,Papers, Docear, JabRef, Bibtex ……



Two Guides with the basics

•Mendeley– http://libguides.dtu.dk/mendeley

•RefWorks– http://libguides.dtu.dk/refworks

http://libguides.dtu.dk/mendeley

http://libguides.dtu.dk/refworks


DTU and Mendeley Premium Edition

Agreement with Elsevier/Mendeley as of November 2013

• More storage capacity ( 5 GB )

• Ability to create private groups of up to 25 collaborators

• Additional premium features such as Mendeley Suggest

• Adding the OpenURL in order to locate full text – http://sfx.cvt.dk/sfx_local


http://sfx.cvt.dk/sfx_local





Introduction to

www.Mendeley.com

http://www.mendeley.com/



•Organizing and collecting

documents & references

• Collaboration

interest groups – join, contribute, start up

• Discovery

statistics, recommendations/suggest, inspiration,

searching

•Mendeley & DTU

what is special about Mendeley?


What is Mendeley?


Reference Management- generate citations and bibliographies (word, libre office, latex)

Read and Annotation- notes, highlights to pdf´s

Add and Organize- import from research databases,

Collaboration- in research groups, share documents..

Network and Discover- search for literature, people and groups

Backup, Sync- desktop, mobile, tablet



http://www.mendeley.com/global-research-report/#.UKT3N2ewVhI

http://www.mendeley.com/global-research-report/






• Independent of platform or browser

Desktop

Web

Mobile

• free “academic software”


Began in 2008 by 3 Ph.D. students – first launch January 2009


Organizing and collecting

= documents and references, getting started..


www.Mendeley.com

http://www.mendeley.com/


The Mendeley Desktop library


Web Importer (saves & gets references easily

Some search tools

www.mendeley.com/import

- install Web Importer By use of drag & drop ( bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarks) in your browser


Synchronise between web and desktop


Organisation


To build up your collection


Free text search or limit by title, author, year, notes etc.

Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

Search and organise / easy to locate documents


Full text search in PDF documents


Annotation + highlights


Citing while writing- use the Mendeley cite plugin


In-text citations i Word + Libre Office


Citations are formated from selected “output styles”

- And a bibliography is ready in few clicks


Collaboration

- join, follow or create groups to share references


+ provide own professional profil


Create groups i Mendeley Desktop

Private groups may share full text documents

Public/open groups may NOT


Share documents in teams/research groups


Search other “public groups” in Mendeley Web


Discover -new research, recommendations, impact


Search the Mendeley Research Catalog


Provide link to full text J

Use Open URL tolocate the full text

Add the DTU Link Resolver via ”My Account” = http://sfx.cvt.dk/sfx_local


Statistics (total amount of “readers” )


Mendeley FEED / ALERT / suggest


Mendeley @ DTU


DTU numbers from Mendeley


5 GB free„storage“ Premium edition

Mendeley Free Storage


Learn more via BLOG and Tutorials

Learn new tips + stay connected by visiting their blog http://www.mendeley.com/blog/

Watch their tutorial videos on the website + stay up to date by following them on twitter + facebook

http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/


Time for Questions and Workshop LIVE


One specific question

It would be nice to have a discussion on LaTeX/BibTeXintegration of Mendeley, as this has always been the area where Mendeley performed fairly badly, even though this is probably one of the top 1-3 priorities for almost all serious academic writers.

http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/howto-use-mendeley-to-create-citations-using-latex-and-bibtex/


And the extra bonus info I promised ....

• As a DTU Student, Ph.D. Student or employee at DTU you need to logincorrect, in order to access licensed materials from Elsevier/Sciencedirect, Springer, IEEE, ACM .. You name it, DTU Library got it, hopefully ;-)

• Sometimes you meet these ressources without going through DTU Findit

• If so fill in ..globalproxy.cvt.dk after the base URL, and you will bepromted with your DTU login, and access to full text is provided if it´s a part of our subscription..

E.g.

• http://www.sciencedirect.com.globalproxy.cvt.dk/science/article/pii/S0167488913004102


That´s all

Mail: [email protected]: @JEkstroemLinkedIN: dk.linkedin.com/in/jeannetteekstroem/Google+ [email protected]+ Mendeley+ ResearchGate


http://dk.linkedin.com/in/jeannetteekstroem/


