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Manage your Research Articles : Using Mendeley. Fall Term 2012 Helen B. Josephine helenj@stanford.edu. Why use a citation manager?. Organize and tag citations AND documents. Create instant bibliographies in standard formats. Create personal citation database of articles on your topics.
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Manage your Research Articles: Using Mendeley Fall Term 2012 Helen B. Josephine helenj@stanford.edu
Why use a citation manager? • Organize and tag citations AND documents. • Create instant bibliographies in standard formats. • Create personal citation database of articles on your topics. • Format papers with in-text citations and bibliographies in standard formats. • Share your database of citations/articles with others.
Desktop client and personal web space • Compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux • Storage and backup of your papers and citations (7GB) • Create public and private groups to share papers and citations (10 private groups/15 users per group) • Citation styles for +1000 journals • Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.
Join Mendeley @ Stanford Group • Increased storage (7GB) for free • Find it at Stanford links activated for faster full-text access • Discover colleagues at Stanford with your research interests • Create a private group to share articles, comments on PDFs • Create your own research profile to highlight your articles
Mendeley Hints • Add and Organize: Import and organize PDFs from your computer, EndNote, Papers or Zotero. • Use Mendeley Tool bar to select multiple items to add to your library. • Collaborate: Connect with colleagues; securely share your papers, notes and annotations. • Explore research trends and statistics • Search for papers within Mendeley, see what you are missing • "auto watches" a specific folder(s)- save a PDF to that folder, it is automatically imported into your library (with metadata). • Backup, Sync, and Mobile: Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.
Mendeley Hints Seven Ways to add documents 1. Single document (drag & drop) 2. Create “watch” folder on desktop 3. Folders (drag & drop) 4. Import Endnote library 5. Synch with Zotero 6. Use web import tool bar 7. Search your topic in Mendeley
Who Uses Mendeley? • 1,804,391 members • 154,835 research groups • 259,953,470 user documents
Who Uses Mendeley? By Discipline: • Biological Sciences: 12,459,724 papers · 9,473 groups • Education: 713,934 papers · 2,369 groups • Engineering:2,056,586 papers · 3,728 groups • Social Sciences: 1,756,508 papers · 3,497 groups
Questions/Comments? • helenj@stanford.edu • http://englib.stanford.edu