Almost Famous Boost your research profile, collaborate

and share using Mendeley

IAALD Webinar

Luz Marina AlvaréInternational Food Policy Research Institute

April 8, 2011

Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com

 a 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

Why we are using it…Details Description

Cost Free up to…1 GB Web space5 Private groups10 Usershttps://www.mendeley.com/upgrade

Desktop and website application Syncs desktop and website applicationAutomatic citation extraction from PDFs Just drag & drop PDFs into Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley detects subject keywords within your PDFsCross-checks your research paper collection against external databases like CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv, or Google Scholar, using DOIs and other unique identifiers

Share References References can be shared with others by creating a Public or Shared (restricted) collection

Support for hand-held devices iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Direct import/export Book marklet to import http://www.mendeley.com/import/

Citation styles  About 1200 stylesMore comingWorking on creating our own styles 

DOI Pulls all the citation detailsDuplicate record detection  Detects duplicate recordsPDF markup/annotation  Annotate and write notes in PDF documentsCite/create bibliographies Generate citations and bibliographies in Word, OpenOffice, Google Docs, LaTeX, and 

any other text editorImport from & sync with other reference managers Imports your existing BibTex, RIS, and EndNote libraries

Citation style clipboard http://www.mendeley.com/citationstyles/Browsers Works with Firefox and IESocial networking Members, FollowersSharing and collaboration features Groups, embedding

Syncs Desktop & WebDesktop – 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

Set up and manage your collections

Set up and manage your collections

Filter your papers by authors, keywords, tags, or publications

Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

Creating Library- Adding papersYou 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

Supported Sites for Importing Documents

Synchronize and manage your library online

Synchronize

your library

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

Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

Annotate and highlight

Cite & Create bibliographies in Word

“Send citation” to Word

Creating Groups and Edit Settings

Web Profile

Discover research statistics

Embed your publications/profile on other websites

Example:http://www.ifpri.org/staffprofile/maximo-torero

Mendeley  and operating systems

http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/Getting Started with Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/getting-started/

Mix,re-mix,embed

• Create alerts + searches(Google Scholar, 

Repec,Worldcat ScienceDirect…)

Mix,re-mix,embed

• Mix them in your Mendeley account

Mix, remix, embed• Embed your bio or collection in websites, 

conferences, intranet.  Do it once!

Same information repurposed for different sites

IFPRI Intranet

IFPRI website