Mendeley

The educational technology and digital learning wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Draft

Introduction

“Mendeley is a gratis, proprietary desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers.” (Wikipedia, retrieved April 2010).

Features

According to Wikipedia:

  • Mendeley Desktop runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • Automatic extraction of metadata from PDF papers.
  • Back-up and synchronization across multiple computers and with a private online account.
  • PDF viewer with sticky notes, text highlighting and full-screen reading.
  • Full-text search across papers.
  • Smart filtering, tagging and automatic PDF file renaming.
  • Citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
  • Import of documents and research papers from external websites via a browser bookmarklet.
  • BibTeX export/file sync
  • Shared collections to collaboratively tag and annotate research papers.
  • Social networking features (newsfeeds, comments, profile pages, etc.).
  • Usage-based readership statistics about papers, authors and publications.

Tricks

Mendeley does not allow importing bibliographies (i.e. lists of references) that are in text or wordprocessor or PDF format.

To import a list of references:

  • Create an account with wizfolio (similar software). The limited free version is good enough for this task.
  • Create a collection and keep it selected.
  • Add button -> from clip board
    • Wizfolio now will attempt to find the bibliographic data. For a larger list, this will take some time.
  • Export to some Mendeley compatible format
  • Import to Mendeley.

Links