1. Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com http://www.mendeley.com a free 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

2. 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/exportDifferent databases 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 networkingExcellent Sharing and collaboration featuresExcellent

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. Supported Sites for Importing Documents

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

8. Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

9. Annotate and highlight

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

11. Creating Groups and Edit Settings

12. Web Profile

13. Embed your publications/profile on other websites …see example http://www.ifpri.org/staffprofile/ma ximo-torero

14. Discover research statistics