1. Reference Management Tool- Mendely
Shivaram BS
Sr. Tech. Officer
CSIR- National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore

2. Successful Literature Search
Search Engine
Google/Scholar
Library
Research Gate
/ Academia.edu
Databases
VTU Consortia
content
Open Access Content

3. Scholarly Information Retrieval : VTU Researcher
VTU Consortia
Local Library
Open Access Content
Google Scholar/Base search engine
VTU
Researcher

4. Research Guide
This is well written article, but where are References & Bibliography ????

5. Why References ? To give credit to others for their work
To add credibility to your work by showing that you used valid information sources
To help show how your work is related to previous work
To avoid plagiarism
To help readers to understand the context & find further information
For references to fulfill their functions, they must be accurate
Make sure that all information in the citation (for example, author list, article title, journal title, volume, year, pages) is accurate.

6. Reference / Citation Styles
APA
MLA
IEEE
Chicago
Harvard
ACS
Vancouver system
Strict
Style & Syntax

7. Full-text Documents/ Citation Styles
How do I manage my
Full-text Documents/ Citation Styles

8. Tool for Information Management
Reference Management
Tools

9. Why Literature/Information Management
Common Error
Lack of Organization
Download & Forget
Improper file naming
No classification
Downloading same item
Hardware Issues
Failures
Changing Desktop systems

10. Reference Management Tools
Organize, annotate and manage your references.
Import references from online databases, library catalogs, websites and PDFs.
Create in-text citations and formatted bibliographies.
Share references with other researchers.
Work on your references anytime, anywhere.
Available web/local versions

11. Popular Reference Management tools

12. This is a comparison of selected Reference management softwares.

13. Mendeley Free Reference management Software (Desktop version)
Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux)
Available in various version – Desktop, Web, Mobile
Plug-Ins for word processor (MS Word)
Create Groups and share your personal library
Automatically exports in popular citation format

14. Mendeley

15. Mendeley
Double Click

16. Mendeley Desktop

17. Demonstration of Mendeley