www.mendeley.com Library Training on Mendeley Reference Manager By Ihekwoaba, Emmanuel Chukwudi Library Training on Mendeley Reference Manager Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria. 21st & 28th, October, 2016 We support academics, students and other professionals (or researchers) in their work with scientific literature. We provide scientific knowledge. We organize scientific knowledge. We help to explore and share scientific knowledge.

Agenda What is Mendeley? Creating your Mendeley Account Downloading Mendeley Desktop Installing Mendeley Desktop Configuring your Mendeley Application Building your library Managing your documents & references Inserting citations & generating bibliographies

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a free academic software (could be installed in Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers...it is a reference manager ...and a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics.

...its backed by co-founders and former executives of: Mendeley is based in London, and was developed by over 30 researchers, graduates and software developers from... ...and Supported by: ...its backed by co-founders and former executives of:

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Things you could do with Mendeley Reference Manager - Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, and other word processing applications. Add and Organize - Import and organize PDFs from your computer. Back up, Sync and Mobile - Access your papers on the web, your android and ios smart devices. Network and Discover - Discover papers, and trending research topics

Things you could do with Mendeley contnd. Set up and manage your references Library showing all your documents (citation or table view) Add tags & notes and edit document details Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

Creating your Mendeley Account

Log into www.mendeley.com in your browser address bar to create free Account Email First Name Last Name Password Fill the Form

Creating your Mendeley Account Field of Study Enter current Institution Save and continue Academic Status Create Account

How to download Mendeley Desktop

How to Install Mendeley Desktop and sign into your Account. Downloaded Mendeley Desktop Click on run to Install Mendeley Desktop Click to open Mendeley Desktop and sign into your Account

Configuring your mendely Application *Install MS Word Plugin – This enables your word document processor and Mendeley to communicate and work together in the citation processs * Install Web Importer – This enables Mendeley grab citation off the web

Web Importer www.mendeley.com/import To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarks in your internet browser Supported sites The Web Importer helps you grab citations off the web

Using the Web Importer On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmark… …then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If possible/available, also the associated PDF will be imported.

Installing MS Word Plugin

How to confirm that the MS Word Plugin is installed

Building your library

Building 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 Drag and drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop … and Mendeley will try to extract the document details automatically You can also: Add existing EndNote/BibTeX/RIS databases Sync with other reference management webapps Use Mendeley Web Importer to add from online databases Add from the Mendeley Research Catalog

Drag and Drop your files to your Mendeley App

Document details review Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and click on the magnifier glass to start lookup Missing info is added automatically

Managing your documents & references

Managing your library Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer Documents can be marked read/unread Star your favorite papers Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

Search as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Inserting citations and generating Bibliographies

Generate In-Text Citations in MSWord 1. Click ‘Insert Citation’ 2. Search by author, title or year, or select a document from your Mendeley library 3. Select the article or book, and click ‘ok’ to automatically cite that text in Word

Citing in MS Word Click on “Insert Citation” in Word Highlight the paper(s) you want to cite

Citing in MS Word contnd. Citation will show up based on selected style Generate a bibliography in one click! Cite into Google documents or other editors by copy & paste

Inserting Bibliography 1 1. Click insert Bibliography 2 2.Chose citation Style

Thank you for listening www.mendeley.com Ihekwoaba, Emmanuel Chukwudi emmanuel.ihekwoaba@unn.edu.ng 08059792809