Manage your Research Articles:
Using Mendeley
Fall Term 2012
Helen B. Josephine
helenj@stanford.edu
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Why use a citation manager?
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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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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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Join Mendeley @ Stanford
Group
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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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Mendeley Hints
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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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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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Who Uses Mendeley?
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1,804,391 members
154,835 research groups
259,953,470 user documents
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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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Video Tutorials
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EXAMPLES
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Questions/Comments?
helenj@stanford.edu
http://englib.stanford.edu
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