1. Mendeley
Organise, share, discover
Cambridge 27th July 2012
Nathalie Cornée & Guilhem Chalancon
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

2. Just started using Mendeley. How come I was never
told about such a great tool?
@litreviewhq I haven't heard of Mendeley
but it could be exactly what I'm looking for...
Thanks!
@enkerli I *love* Mendeley. It's the best thing
that has happened to reference management
since EndNote
Just fyi, Mendeley is pretty
awesome on searching research:
@AmandaMichelle I love Mendeley: http://t.co/l0VoRGU
love the web importer, use it across
devices (phone/ipad), and to share
readings w/advisors, etc. #phdchat
I friggin' LOVE
Mendeley!!
http://amplicate.com/love/mendeley

3. Agenda
• What is Mendeley?
• Getting Started
• Creating your library
• Managing/organising your documents and references
• Citing References & generating bibliographies
• Annotating PDFs
• Sharing References and collaborating using groups
• Mendeley as a social network for researchers
• Overall advantages of Mendeley

4. What is Mendeley?

5. What is Mendeley?
Mendeley is free academic software
(Win, Mac & Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android)
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.

6. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is start-up made of
researchers, graduates and software developers from...
...supported by:
...backed by co-founders and
former executives of:

7. What is Mendeley?
Store once – access anywhere

8. Getting started

9. Getting started
Sign up and download
• 500MB personal storage + 500MB shared storage
• www.mendeley.com
• Enter your details, follow instructions to download the Desktop application
for your OS
3 things to download:
• Mendeley Desktop Application
• Mendeley Web Importer
• Plugins for Word/LibreOffice Writer

10. Getting started - The Web side
Mendeley on the web
Search
provides :
• A research
catalogue of 100M
documents from 1M
researchers, 80K
collaborative groups
• Statistics and paper
suggestions based
on what's in your Contacts
library
Groups
• A personal profile
page
Your publications

11. Getting started - The Desktop side
Check for duplicates
Set up and manage your reference groups
Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Add tags & notes and edit document details
Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

12. Creating your library

13. Import papers in your library from anywhere!
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

14. Import papers in your library from anywhere!
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/

15. Import papers – document detail lookup
Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and
click on the magnifier glass to start lookup
Missing info is added automatically

16. Discover papers with Mendeley Suggests

17. Managing your documents and references

18. Managing your documents and references
Create folders
• Folders allow you to organise and
filter your references
(e.g by project)
• Manipulating folders and references is
largely a matter of dragging and
dropping
• Mark items „as read‟ or „as favourites‟
Search your Library
• Add your own tags to records to
make them easier to find

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

20. Searching as you type

21. Full text search in Mendeley‟s PDF viewer

22. Mendeley„s File Organizer
You can find the
File Organizer in
Tools > Options >
File Organizer

23. Managing your documents and references
Remember to Sync!
• When you open Mendeley Desktop it will sync with your library in the cloud
• The desktop software operates in an „offline‟ mode
• Once Mendeley Desktop is launched, synchronization between desktop and
web is not automated
• So… remember to hit the „Sync‟ button

24. Synchronize and manage your library online
You can also add
references and
edit & manage your
library online

25. Citing References

26. Citing in Word & Libre Office
Click on “Insert Citation” in Word
Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite

27. Citing in Word & Libre Office
Citation will show up based on selected style
Generate a bibliography in one click!
Cite into Google
documents
or other editors by
copy & paste

28. Citing in Word & Libre Office

29. Annotating PDFs

30. Annotating PDFs
PDF Viewer
• View, annotate and highlight PDF documents directly (no
need for another PDF reader)
• Save and print your annotations
• Share the annotations in groups (Copyright!)

31. Annotate and highlight

32. Sharing References

33. Send a reference to your contacts

34. Manage Groups from Mendeley Desktop

35. Manage Groups from Mendeley Web
You can also
create groups
online.

36. Collaborating via Mendeley Groups
Join interest groups on Mendeley Web
• Find out more about researchers in your field
• See what colleagues are reading
• >48,000 public groups sorted by discipline!
Private and public options
• Invite-only (limited number / account)
• Open

37. Mendeley as a social network for researchers

38. Get readership information on papers

39. Follow what your peers are reading

40. Join Group Newsfeed

41. Build your online presence
View Profile: Research field, Publications,
Awards and Grants, Biographical Information,
CV, Contact Information
Highly ranked in Google searches

42. Link out your activity on social networks

43. Statistics

44. Statistics

45. Statistics
Martin Fenner,
PLoS Blogs,
Gobbledygook

46. Overall advantages of Mendeley

47. Why choose Mendeley?
Free of charge (contrary to Refworks, Endnote, Papers etc.)
Is it better than other free packages (Zotero etc)?
-> Cross platform compatible (Win/Mac/Lin)
-> Compatible with Open/Libre Office and MS word
-> Social networking and collaboration features
-> Already in use by other colleagues

48. Have a look to what the community is developing!
http://dev.mendeley.com/

49. Leave feedback and see what‟s coming next
Visit http://feedback.mendeley.com
to see what others are saying, leave
feedback, request features or report
bugs.

50. www.mendeley.com