1. www.mendeley.com Library Training on Mendeley Reference ManagerBy
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.

2. 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

3. What is Mendeley?

4. 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.

5. ...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:

6. Mendeley

7. 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

8. 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

9. Creating your Mendeley Account

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

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

12. How to download Mendeley Desktop

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. Installing MS Word Plugin

18. How to confirm that the MS Word Plugin is installed

19. Building your library

20. 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

21. Drag and Drop your files to your Mendeley App

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

23. Managing your documents & references

24. 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

25. Search as you type

26. Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

27. Annotate and highlight

28. Inserting citations and generating Bibliographies

29. 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

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

31. 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

32. Inserting Bibliography1
1. Click insert Bibliography 2
2.Chose citation Style

33. Thank you for listening
Ihekwoaba, Emmanuel Chukwudi