This document provides an overview of Mendeley, a citation manager that allows users to organize research articles and citations, create bibliographies, and share references with other researchers. It describes Mendeley's features such as storing up to 7GB of documents, creating private groups to share papers, generating citations in various styles, and accessing documents on desktop, web and mobile. The document also gives tips on adding documents to Mendeley from folders, Endnote or Zotero and highlights its large user base across academic disciplines.

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Manage your Research Articles:
Using Mendeley
Fall Term 2012
Helen B. Josephine
helenj@stanford.edu

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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.

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4.  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.
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5. 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
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6. 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.
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7. 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
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8. Who Uses Mendeley?
 1,804,391 members
 154,835 research groups
 259,953,470 user documents
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9. 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
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11. Video Tutorials
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EXAMPLES

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Questions/Comments?
 helenj@stanford.edu
 http://englib.stanford.edu