A brief introduction to Mendeley and how to get started

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Managing your information with
Mendeley
15th July 2019
Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier

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What is Mendeley
Academic Reference Manager and a workflow tool supporting
researcher needs…
Reference
management
Research
network
Promote your work.
Connect and
collaborate
with millions of
researches
worldwide
Datasets
Store, share and
cite datasets with
one secure
online repository
Careers
Search for
science and
technology jobs
in institutions
worldwide
Funding
Find the best
funding for your
research,
bookmark your
favorites and stay
up to date
Collect, read,
organize and
cite all of your
research from
one library

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Accessible at any time, anywhere and from any device.
Mobile
iOS & Android
Desktop
Windows, Mac & Linux
Online
All major browsers

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Reference Management
Cite as you write Annotate as you read Curate & share reading lists
Collecting &
organize content
(universal importer)
Access research anywhere
Maximize your investment
in Elsevier

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Research Network
Reputation management
with research profiles
Make new connections
and promote research
Create and join groups
Collaborate with
colleagues worldwide
Follow the impact of
publications
Stay up to date
(feed & suggest)

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Research Network – Stats for researchers (within your profile)
Easy Access to Researchers Metrics
• Easy Profile Creation with Scopus
Author or Orchid ID
• Scopus Statistics
• Citations
• H-index
• ScienceDirect Statistics: Views statistics
• Mendeley Statistics: Overall readers
• Newsflo: Researcher Media Mentions

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Research data management with Mendeley Data
Mendeley Data is a secure cloud-based repository
where researchers can store their data, ensuring it is
easy to share, access and cite. It also complies with
funders’ requirements for storage and distribution of
data
Upload, access and browse datasets anywhere, for free

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When talking about data, we talk about…
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All forms of research data,
which includes everything
needed to reproduce and
reuse
Raw data Processed data
Machine &
environment settings
Protocols, methods,
workflows
Scripts, analyses, algorithms

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data.mendeley.com
Data Repository
Store results in a trusted data repository
Store up to 10 GB of data per
dataset in many formats
Describe how experiments
can be reproduced
Long-term storage: never lose data
Link back to protocols
Create DOI
for Citation
(or university
prefix)
Keep track of
versions of dataset
Metadata:
Dublin Core and Google Science Datasets markup

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Careers – Science and Technology jobs
Open positions
worldwide
Job alerts
Career advice
Mendeley Careers service, which selects thousands of relevant science and technology job postings from
the leading job boards, academic institutions, company employers, and recruitment agencies
across the world
https://blog.mendeley.com/2018/04/09/finding-your-next-job-or-funding-opportunity-has-never-been-easier/

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Mendeley Funding
Mendeley funding is the largest, free
funding discovery tool of curated
funder and funding opportunity data. It
helps researchers find relevant funding
opportunities they wouldn’t have found
otherwise.
Around 17.000 opportunities across + 3,000 organizations

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Scopus and ScienceDirect export

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Insert references into your paper using Mendeley’s
Web Library
The export feature uses Microsoft Word’s built-in citation tool. This feature is only available on Windows for Word 2010 and above.
1. Open your Mendeley Web Library
2. Select the references you want to export
3. Click on Export to MS Word, which will download an .xml file.
4. Open Word and go to “References” and then “Manage Resources.”
5. Browse your folder, select the .xml file and add to current list. Your references will be
available in Word’s Citation Manager.

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Insert references into your paper using Mendeley’s
Web Library
The number of citation styles in Word are limited but you can install more styles
from BibWord.
MS Word’s citation system is not the same system used by Mendeley Desktop.
Using both on the same document will yield two sets of citations and two
bibliographies.
https://blog.mendeley.com/2017/02/28/insert-references-into-your-paper-using-mendeleys-web-library/

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How to start with Mendeley
1. Register on www.mendeley.com
2. Download Mendeley Desktop
3. Install “Web importer tool”
4. Install Word plugin
Word processors that are currently supported by Mendeley Desktop are:
Word for windows 2013 or later. / Word for Mac 2011 and 2016(64 bit) as of 1.17.9 / LibreOffice 5.2

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Stay up to date
Keeping in touch with Mendeley’s ongoing developments
Get new tips and stay connected by visiting
our blog at blog.mendeley.com
Read our guides and watch our tutorial
videos at resources.mendeley.com

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Mendeley User Guides
All available guides: https://www.mendeley.com/guides

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Mendeley CSL Editor
How to edit your own reference style
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/csl-editor
https://youtu.be/7dUwAKVmCq0