wants to help researchers

organize, share, and discover

research papers.

Add venue/date if needed

 Agenda

 What is Mendeley?
 Creating your library
 Managing your documents & references
 Citing and sharing references
What is Mendeley?
Based in London, Mendeley are 15 researchers, graduates and
software developers from...

...backed by co-founders and

former executives of:
 Mendeley
works like this:
1) Install “Audioscrobbler”
Last.fm
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

2) Listen to music
 Mendeley Last.fm

music libraries research libraries

artists researchers

songs papers

genres disciplines
 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 document details

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

www.mendeley.com/import

To install the Web Importer,

drag & drop the bookmarklet to
your Favorites/Bookmarks
in your internet browser

The Web Importer helps you to

grab citations off the web

Supported sites
 Using the Web Importer

On the web page with …then click on “Import” to import

the reference(s) you the reference/paper to your
want to capture: click on Mendeley library. If
the bookmarklet… possible/available, also the
associated PDF will be imported.
 Synchronize and manage your library online

You can also add

references and
edit & manage your
library online

Synchronize
your library

In addition, you will get statistics

about your library, your impact
and your research field (see later)
Managing your documents & references
 Manage your library

Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer

Star your favorite papers

Documents can be marked read/unread

Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

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

Citation will show up based on selected style

Cite into Google documents

or other editors by copy & paste
 Creating bibliographies

Insert a bibliography based on the citations

 Public Collections (“Reading Lists”)

You can make a collection public in “Edit Settings”

View the collection online –

other users can subscribe via
A Public Collection acts like a “Reading List” –
clicking on “Subscribe” on
you can add references to the collection, and
the collection page.
users who have subscribed to this collection will
get the references pushed into their Mendeley
account. PDFs are not attached.
 Shared Collections

A shared collection allows a

research group to create a private,
shared library and to
collaboratively edit and annotate
documents and references.

Only the members of this

collection can see it online
Create your professional research profile
Discover research statistics
Discover research statistics

What is your impact?

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
www.mendeley.com