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Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com. What is it? How is it different from other “Bibliographic databases” like End Note and Reference Manager. Mendeley & Other databases. Mendeley. Reference Manager Database. Commercial software Need to carry your laptop and connect to your network
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Mendeleyhttp://www.mendeley.com What is it? How is it different from other “Bibliographic databases” like End Note and Reference Manager
Mendeley & Other databases Mendeley Reference Manager Database Commercial software Need to carry your laptop and connect to your network It is only desktop application Doesn’t pull the PDF descriptive metadata • Open software • Access it from anywhere • Syncs desktop and website application • Automatically extract document details when you upload PDF documents • Shares collections with colleagues and closed groups
Syncs Desktop & Web Desktop – a free academic software to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers Web - a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers
What is Mendeley Set up and manage your collections Library showing all your documents (citation or table view) Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications
Creating Library- Adding papers • You have different options to set up your library: • Add single files or an entire folder • Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases, or… • “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF files …drag & drop PDF files into the library pane… Add tags & notes and edit document details … and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically
Synchronize and manage your library online You can also add references and edit & manage your library online Synchronize your library
Cite & Create bibliographies in Word “Send citation” to Word Cite into Google documents or other editors by copy & paste Citation will show up based on selected style
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