Mendeley for Librarians

May 20th 2011

William Gunn
Head of Academic Outreach
william.gunn@mendeley.com
 Just started using Mendeley. How come I was
never told about such a great tool?

@litreviewhq I haven't heard of

Mendeley but it could be exactly what
I'm looking for... Thanks!

@enkerli I *love* Mendeley. It's the best

thing that has happened to reference
management since EndNote
Just fyi, Mendeley is pretty
awesome on searching
@AmandaMichelle I love research: http://t.co/l0VoRGU
Mendeley: love the web importer,
use it across devices
(phone/ipad), and to share
readings w/advisors, etc.
#phdchat I friggin' LOVE
Mendeley!!
http://amplicate.com/love/mendeley
 What you will learn
What problems Mendeley solves

What technology Mendeley uses

How Mendeley compares

How to teach others about Mendeley.

 Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates
and software developers from...

Supported by:

...backed by co-founders and

former executives of:
 Connecting Scholars in the Cloud
Research is a social activity, but the tools
and the data arent.

Databases have incomplete metadata,

incompatible licenses prevent remixing
and sharing necessary for new insights.

Capture the latent info in their process!

Mendeley is not just a reference manager!

...and aggregates research

data in the cloud
Install
Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley extracts
research data
 What is Mendeley?
Mendeley Web: A research catalog of
100M documents from 1M researchers,
80K collaborative groups.

Mendeley Desktop: A bit of software that

organizes PDFs and helps you write
papers.
 Mendeley Desktop

Set up and manage your reference groups

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
 7 ways to add documents to Mendeley

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

http://www.mendeley.com/blog/tipstricks/7-ways-to-add-documents-to-mendeley/
What happens when you add PDFs
to Mendeley?

EXTRAC UPLOA
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 Document details lookup

Enter the DOI, PubMed, or ArXiv ID and

click on the magnifier glass to start lookup

Missing info is added automatically

 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
 Using the Web Importer

On the web page with then click on Import to import

the reference(s) you the reference/paper to your
want to capture: click on Mendeley library. If
the bookmarklet possible/available, also the
associated PDF will be imported.
Citing in Word & Open Office
Citing in Word & Open Office

Citation will show up based on selected style

Generate a bibliography in one click!

Cite into Google

documents
or other editors by
copy & paste
 Mendeley and Endnote
Why spend money if good free tools exist?
Overkill for just collecting papers and
inserting citations
Beholden to their existing base, cant
innovate
Tools of scholarship should be in the
hands of scholars!
 Citation Style Language
CSL is a markup language, like HTML,
but for citation info.
Developed by Bruce DArcus, first
implemented by Zotero
Open format
Tools for scholarly communication by
and for scholars.
 Citation Style Language
Mendeley
Implements CSL
Ships with thousands of styles
Develops citation style processor code
Supports community in development of
styles
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 Mendeley Web
Mendeley Web is three things

Crowdsourced catalog of research

A social network of researchers and

documents

A web service for research data & stats

Aggregate data
enables social
discovery in
real time
ReaderMeter.org
 Were in this for the long haul

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/delfo/153254882/
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 Select relation:
supports
refutes
complements
uses same method
...

Result:
A human-curated,
constantly evolving
semantic article database
JISC DURA Project http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com
Add Mendeley to your library website.
Integrate set workshops into your curriculum

Email andrew.bennie@mendeley.com with questions

Join the Mendeley for Librarians
Group

This is a private librarian-only group so members can share presentations

and documents. Well send everyone an invite via email.
www.mendeley.com

william.gunn@mendeley.com