LED LaTeX Editor and Mendeley Desktop Why should they be a part of Graduate Student’s arsenal? Presented By: Syed Faraz Ahmed Research Assistant EE Dept. KFUPM

Because Graduate Students… Need organization and management of research papers … Need user-friendly editing tool for writing and editing Thesis, Papers etc..?

Organization of the Presentation PART: I LEd a user friendly LaTeX Editor PART: II Mendeley Software for managing and collaborating research papers etc.

What is LEd ? “LaTeX Editor” - an environment for rapid TeX and LaTeX document development LEd offers: -a project manager- powerful editor -integrated spellchecker and thesaurus - build-in DVI viewer - descriptive hints for LaTeX commands - code complete mechanism - word wrapping- code folding -Basic package only 6 MB of disk space !

LEd Project management TeX/LaTeX sources Bibliographical data in BibTeX format Document class and package sources METAFONT font sources Tables of contents, lists of figures, and tables EPS files Other types.

LEd integrates a project manager, editor, viewer, and more

More than 2200 buttons for LaTeX symbols For each button representing a symbol a hint is provided describing the command syntax and, if necessary, which external package should be used In the editor window, hints for symbols contain also a bitmap showing the symbol

Descriptive hints Highlights the contents of the file to ease editing process This reduces the help usage Hints provided for: syntax of the command short description description of the command parameters example of usage remarks (if something special can be said about the command)

Built-in DVI viewer TeX/LaTeX compilers output DVI files viewed with a built-in DVI viewer of LEd ! Unlike Word etc. LaTeX is not WYSWYG Multiple Projects / Files View Print quality preview Different zoom levels Support for EPS files Message Window

Built-in DVI viewer A two-way navigation (you can double click on the previewed page to move to the related place in the source text and also double click in the contents window to show the related page in the viewer).

Other Useful Features Code folding Parts of the source text can be collapsed to one line Parenthesis Coloring Parentheses are colored depending on the nesting level Matched parentheses are highlighted Code completion Supports completion for LaTeX commands Suggested commands hints are also available Labels and bibliographical entries defined in the document are also supported

Lastly… Multi-lingual Dictionary and Thesaurus Can be used with any TeX distribution (full functionality is available with a distribution based on TeXLive or MiKTeX) Built-in Spellchecker Not only LaTeX / TeX Free to download and use !!

Acknowledgement: LEd Help Guide

Syed Faraz Ahmed Electrical Engineering Department K.F.U.P.M. 10 th May 2011

Mendeley is for ● Researchers ● Scholars and educators ● Graduate and undergraduate students ● Information management professionals ● Librarians

 What is Mendeley?  Creating your library  Managing your documents & references  Inserting citations & generating bibliographies  Sharing references using groups Agenda

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.

Creating your library

What is Mendeley? Set up and manage your reference groups 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

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

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

Web Importer 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 bookmarklet… …then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If 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

Managing your documents & references

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

Search as you type

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Mendeley‘s File Organizer 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(s) you want to cite

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

Share references with Mendeley Groups Groups can be private or public (invite only or open) View the group online – other users can request to join or simply follow the activity of the group Public groups only have the reference details – no full text. Private groups contain the full text including notes & annotations.

Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop Private groups contain the full text. Public groups share references only.

Create Groups in Mendeley Desktop You can also create groups online.

Create your professional research profile

Search the Mendeley Research Catalog

Get readership information on papers

Leave feedback and see what’s coming next Visit to see what others are saying, leave feedback, request features or report bugs.

Using Mendeley Scenario 1: Use Mendeley as your free and flexible literature management software Scenario 2: Create public reading lists & collaborate with colleagues Scenario 3: Create a public research profile and discover research statistics in your field

Why choose Mendeley? It is free - basic version Mendeley is a good bibliographic database, provides a desktop version for your PC / Laptop and a web version Mendeley synchronises desktop and web versions. Access your databases away from your own computer, over the Web Mendeley is good with pdfs, automatically extracting bibliographic information from pdfs on import Mendeley can import existing databases from EndNote, CiteULike, 2collab and Zotero, or any database in RIS format

Why choose Mendeley? Mendeley provides a plugin to integrate with Microsoft Word and Open Office Mendeley provides the facility for you to collaborate over the web to create group bibliographies Mendeley provides a space for you to create an online profile to share research interests and network Mendeley has a database of 73M+ references you can search and suggests related references for your search results

Mendeley’s 10 Largest Userbases Stanford University MIT Harvard University University of Cambridge University of Michigan RWTH Aachen Cornel l University University of Edinburgh Imperial College London University College London

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Acknowledgement : “Getting Started with Mendeley” Presentation Adapted from Mendeley web-resource

Thank You !