1. Almost Famous Boost your research profile, collaborate and share using Mendeley IAALD Webinar Luz Marina Alvaré International Food Policy Research Institute April 8, 2011

2. Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com http://www.mendeley.com 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

3. Why we are using it… DetailsDescription CostFree up to… 1 GB Web space 5 Private groups 10 Users https://www.mendeley.com/upgrade 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 http://www.mendeley.com/import/http://www.mendeley.com/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://www.mendeley.com/citationstyles/ BrowsersWorks with Firefox and IE Social networkingMembers, Followers Sharing and collaboration featuresGroups, embedding

4. 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

5. Set up and manage your collections Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

6. 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

7. Supported Sites for Importing Documents

8. Synchronize and manage your library online Synchronize your library You can also add references and edit & manage your library online

9. Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

10. Annotate and highlight

11. Cite & Create bibliographies in Word “Send citation” to Word

12. Creating Groups and Edit Settings

13. Web Profile

14. Discover research statistics

15. Embed your publications/profile on other websites Example: http://www.ifpri.org/staffprofile/maximo- torero

16. Mendeley and operating systems http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ Getting Started with Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/getting-started/http://www.mendeley.com/getting-started/

17. Mix,re-mix,embed Create alerts + searches( Google Scholar, Repec,Worldcat ScienceDirect… )

18. Mix,re-mix,embed Mix them in your Mendeley account

19. 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