Mendeley is a bibliographic management tool that allows users to organize papers and citations, create bibliographies, and integrate with Word. It provides searchable full-text storage and allows users to collaborate by joining groups. Mendeley also functions as a social network for researchers to find others with similar interests.
2. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the bibliographic entity…
Mendeley is a bibliographic management
tool, enabling you:
• to cite a text
• to create a bibliography of citations
• to ‘write and cite’ (integrate with Word)
3. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the text…
Mendeley is a concept management
tool, enabling you:
• to filter textual content (using tags)
• to search textual content
• to collate texts for literature search
4. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the text collection…
Mendeley is an information management and
knowledge management tool, enabling you:
• to organise a collection of texts (Tags)
• to classify sub-collections (Groups and
Folders)
5. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the database…
Mendeley forms a research database,
enabling you:
• to search the collective, crowd-sourced
database
• to join groups and benefit from others’
collections
6. What Is Mendeley?
At the level of the network…
Mendeley is a professional social
network, enabling you:
• to find other researchers with
similar interests
• to collaborate with other
researchers
7. What Is Mendeley?
As an element in your relational,
professional identity…
Mendeley can be integrated with,
for example,
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
18. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, drag and drop
Drag file and drop in Mendeley
19. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, add files
Click on File, then Add Files, then select files
20. Step 3: Start Collecting
Download PDF, watch folder
Click on File, then Watch folder, then select folder from list
21. Step 4: Bibliographic Management
Set bibliographic style
Click on View, click on Citation Style, then select preferred style
22. Step 4: Bibliographic Management
Edit bibliographic record
Match details from PDF text to
fields in bibliographic record,
correcting where necessary