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An Introduction 2022-03-14 Tamzyn Suliaman, Health Sciences Library, UCT
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An Introduction
Tamzyn Suliaman, Health Sciences Library, UCT
What is Mendeley?
• Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network • Organize your research • Collaborate with others online• Discover the latest research
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Mendeley Vs Other Reference Managers
Pros
• Easy to use• Extracts metadata from PDFs• Access your library from anywhere• Annotate and make comments on the papers
stored in your library• Explore similar research and researchers in
your field (web)• MS Word plugin easy to install
Pros
• Supports Harvard UCT output style• Easy export from databases• More output styles available• Output styles more accurate (but not perfect!)
Cons
• Output style varies• Requires work to fix the metadata• Cannot search in folders when inserting
citations in MS Word• What you put in is what you get out!
Cons
• Not as easy to use• WNC 4 (Ms Word plugin) only compatible with MS
Word 2014• Manually attach PDFs (limited space)
Mendeley Others
What can you do with Mendeley?
• Automatically generate bibliographies• Collaborate easily with other researchers online• Easily import papers from other research
software• Find relevant papers based on what you’re
reading• Access your papers from anywhere online• Read papers on the go, with the new iPhone
app
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Setting up an account
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Setting up an account
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Mendeley Web
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Mendeley Web
• Allows you to read your papers•Upload your own papers (papers written by you)•Discover new research•Connect with researchers in your field (Social Networking)
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Core Features
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My Library
• My Library is your database of references and PDFs•You can:•Add new papers•Create and organise them into folder•Review the metadata
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My Library
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Adding Documents
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Documents
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Papers
•Search for papers on particular subjects• Browse by discipline
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Papers
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Papers
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Accessing full text found in Mendeley via UCT Libraries
Mendeley Web Account Settings
Account Details Sharing/ import
Add link
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If you are not on-campus, add the link below
http://uctsfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/uct
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Finding Full Text
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Finding Full text
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Finding Full text
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Related Research
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People
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Adding References to Mendeley
Importing from the Web
• http://www.mendeley.com/import/
• This works best with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. • Install from Mendeley Desktop
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Web Import
Drag and drop into your bookmarks list
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Mendeley Desktop
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Mendeley Desktop
• Harnesses the metadata (information about the information) to
Manage Your Library
Create category folders
See what type of document is attached (.pdf, .ppt, .docx, excel, etc.)
Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer
Star favorites
Mark as read/unread
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Metadata
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If you save all your documents to one folder you can use the “Watch Folder” option to automatically add references to Mendeley
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File OrganizerCreates a copy of your PDF, exclusively for Mendeley. Mendeley uses this file location for
the PDF, as opposed to the original
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The Drag & Drop
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The Manual Upload
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Related Research
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Mendeley Cite-O-Matic
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