wants to help researchers
organize, share, and discover
research papers.

Mr. Amir Ashraf
President –The Knowledge Hub
Chief Coordinator –Research & Innovation Club
Certified Design Thinking Trainer –RITx (USA)
BS Biotechnology –Superior University Lahore
MPhil Molecular Biology & Biotechnology -UVAS

 What is Mendeley?
 Creating your library
 Managing your documents & references
 Citing and sharing references
Agenda

What is Mendeley?

Based in London, Mendeley are 15 researchers, graduates and
software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:

works like this:
1) Install “Audioscrobbler”
2) Listen to music
3) Last.fm builds your music
profile and recommends you
music you also could like... and
it’s the world‘s biggest open
music database
Last.fm
Mendeley

research libraries
researchers
papers
disciplines
music libraries
artists
songs
genres
Last.fm
Mendeley

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.

What is Mendeley?
Set up and manage your collections
Add tags & notes and edit documentdetails
Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Filter your papers by authors,
keywords, tags, or publications

Creating your library

Adding your papers
You have different options to set up your library:
• Add single files or an entire folder
• “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF files
• Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases, or…
…drag & drop PDF files into the library pane…
… and Mendeley will try to extract the
document details automatically

Document details lookup
You can also try to complete the document
details by querying various databases
(Crossref, PubMed, ArXiv or Google Scholar)
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and
click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
And remember – made a mistake?
Press CTRL+Z (or Edit > Undo)
to undo the last step

Web Importer
To install the Web Importer,
drag & drop the bookmarklet to
your Favorites/Bookmarks
in your internet browser
Supported sites
www.mendeley.com/import
The Web Importer helps you to
grab citations off the web

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

Synchronize and manage your library online
Synchronize
your library
You can also add
references and
edit & manage your
library online
In addition, you will get statistics
about your library, your impact
and your research field (see later)

Managing your documents & references

Manage your library
Star your favorite papers
Documents can be marked read/unread
Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

Search as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Mendeley‘s File Organizer
Mendeley can also organize
your PDF files in a consistent
folder structure on your hard
disk and rename them
according to their document
details
You can find the File Organizer in
Tools > Options > File Organizer

Citing and sharing references

Citing in Word & Open Office
Click on “Insert Citation” in Word
Highlight the paper you want to cite

Citing in Word & Open Office
“Send citation” to Word

Creating bibliographies
Insert a bibliography based on the citations

www.mendeley.com

TASK TO DO
Download 5 Articles
Write 3 Paragraphs in Microsoft Word
Add Annotations to some articles in Mendeley
Do citation and create Bibliography