Almost Famous Boost your research profile, collaborate and share using Mendeley IAALD Webinar Luz Marina Alvaré International Food Policy Research Institute April 8, 2011
Mendeley a reference manager and academic social network… Assists - cataloguing and managing your academic papers and articles Shares - academic and scientific knowledge with selected colleagues Discovers - academic knowledge and allows detailed search of academic papers Put - in touch with like-minded people and facilitate research projects
Why we are using it… DetailsDescription CostFree up to… 1 GB Web space 5 Private groups 10 Users Desktop and website applicationSyncs desktop and website application Automatic citation extraction from PDFs Just drag & drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop Mendeley detects subject keywords within your PDFs Cross-checks your research paper collection against external databases like CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv, or Google Scholar, using DOIs and other unique identifiers Share ReferencesReferences can be shared with others by creating a Public or Shared (restricted) collection Support for hand-held devicesiPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Direct import/exportBook marklet to import Citation styles About 1200 styles More coming Working on creating our own styles DOIPulls all the citation details Duplicate record detectionDetects duplicate records PDF markup/annotationAnnotate and write notes in PDF documents Cite/create bibliographiesGenerate citations and bibliographies in Word, OpenOffice, Google Docs, LaTeX, and any other text editor Import from & sync with other reference managersImports your existing BibTex, RIS, and EndNote libraries Citation style clipboardhttp:// BrowsersWorks with Firefox and IE Social networkingMembers, Followers Sharing and collaboration featuresGroups, embedding
Syncs Desktop & Web Desktop – a free academic software to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers Web - a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers
Set up and manage your collections Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)
Creating Library- Adding papers You have different options to set up your library: Add single files or an entire folder Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases, or… “Watch a folder” to automatically import PDF files …drag & drop PDF files into the library pane… … and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically Add tags & notes and edit document details
Supported Sites for Importing Documents
Synchronize and manage your library online Synchronize your library You can also add references and edit & manage your library online
Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer
Annotate and highlight
Cite & Create bibliographies in Word “Send citation” to Word
Creating Groups and Edit Settings
Web Profile
Discover research statistics
Embed your publications/profile on other websites Example: torero
Mendeley and operating systems Getting Started with Mendeley
Mix,re-mix,embed Create alerts + searches( Google Scholar, Repec,Worldcat ScienceDirect… )
Mix,re-mix,embed Mix them in your Mendeley account
Mix, remix, embed Embed your bio or collection in websites, conferences, intranet. Do it once! Same information repurposed for different sites IFPRI Intranet IFPRI website