Mendeley for Librarians

Mendeley for Librarians

May 20th 2011William GunnHead of Academic Outreachwilliam.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 research: http://t.co/l0VoRGU

@AmandaMichelle I love 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...

...backed by co-founders and former executives

of:

Supported by:

Connecting Scholars in the Cloud

• Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t.

• Databases have incomplete metadata, incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights.

• Capture the latent info in their process!

...and aggregates research

data in the cloud

Mendeley extracts research data…

Mendeley is not just a reference manager!

Install Mendeley Desktop

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.

Set up and manage your reference groups

Add tags & notes and edit document details

Library showing all your documents (citation or table view)

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

Mendeley Desktop

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?

EXTRACT

UPLOAD

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

To install the Web Importer, drag & drop the bookmarklet to your Favorites/Bookmarksin your internet browser

Supported sites

www.mendeley.com/import

The Web Importer helps you grab citations off the web

Using the Web Importer

On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmarklet…

…then click on “Import” to import the reference/paper to your Mendeley library. If 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

Cite into Google documents

or other editors by copy & paste

Generate a bibliography in one click!

Mendeley and Endnote

• Why spend money if good free tools exist?

• Overkill for just collecting papers and inserting citations

• Beholden to their existing base, can’t 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 D’Arcus, first implemented by Zotero

• Open format

• Tools for scholarly communication by and for scholars.

Citation Style Language

• Implements CSL• Ships with thousands of styles• Develops citation style processor

code• Supports community in development

of styles

Mendeley…

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntenny/2956072015/

Mendeley Web

• Crowdsourced catalog of research

• A social network of researchers and documents

• A web service for research data & stats

Mendeley Web is three things…

Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

ReaderMeter.org

We’re in this for the long haul

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Select relation:

supportsrefutescomplementsuses 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. We’ll send everyone an invite via email.

www.mendeley.com

william.gunn@mendeley.com