A presentation run for ScHARR staff and students showing them the benefits of the social reference management tool Mendeley

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2. Mendeley
Image copyright – Mendeley.com

3. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic
social network that can help you organize your
research, collaborate with others online, and discover
the latest research.
Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with their iPhone app or the
unofficial Android apps

4. •A web-based reference management system
•Allows you to store references to books, book chapters,
journal articles, websites, etc
•Importing a reference can be as simple as a single click
of your mouse
•You can ‘tag’ references with keywords that will help
you to retrieve them later
•Allows you to both import to, and export from,
traditional electronic reference management systems
including Reference Manager and EndNote
•Allows you to generate bibliographies in formats such
as Harvard, Chicago, MLA and Vancouver

5. •Better still, Mendeley is a discovery tool and allows
you to locate references that other users have found
•You can keep your own references private or make
them public for other users to access
•Can be helpful in drawing attention to your own
publications and any that are generated by your research
project

6. What are the benefits?
Primarily, Mendeley is a SHARED resource - all
members of a research team can access it
Secondly, it is COLLABORATIVE - all the members of
the research team can contribute their own knowledge
and be involved in the information-gathering process
Thirdly, it is MOBILE - you can access your references
from any place that has a computer and internet
connection

7. Mendeley comes in two flavours
Off-line – downloadable software version
On-line Web based, social network, searchable database
version
Use both…

8. Mobile apps
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Mobile

9. It is free…but you can pay for more
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17. Let’s Begin…
Go to http://www.mendeley.com/
Sign up for a FREE account

18. Remember
Download the Mendeley Guide
http://www.mendeley.com/downloads/Getting_Started_
Guide.pdf
Download Mendeley onto your PC
Install the Web Importer
Add the Citation button to Word
To synch your library!!!!!
Also.
Try looking for peers/contacts/potential collaborators
and them and their references!

19. Other Notable tools
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21. Other notable tools
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http://vimeo.com/62162465

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23. For further Mendeley/Reference
Management support go to:
Mendeley
http://www.mendeley.com/getting-started/
http://www.mendeley.com/faq/
ScHARR Library
ScHARR Library enquiry desk
Tel: (0114) 222 5420
@scharrlib
ScHARR Library Information Skills tutorials