Penn State University Libraries - Mendeley

Overview

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online, and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading.

You can install Mendeley Desktop on multiple computers (Windows, Mac or Linux) and synchronize your research paper library across them all, as well as access your papers from anywhere online via Mendeley Web.

Mendeley can easily import papers from other research software (XML and RIS files) plus you can drag and drop PDFs into your library and Mendeley will extract the document details (bibliographic data). Mendeley can also rename your PDF files into file names that are more meaningful, and file them in a clear folder structure so you can find them outside of Mendeley.

Mendeley Desktop includes a powerful PDF reader which allows you to add highlights and notes to documents which you can then share with your collaborators.

Once you have your documents in Mendeley, you can cite and reference them within Word and OpenOffice with ease, as well as automatically generate bibliographies.

Mendeley also offers an online social network for researchers with networking features such as newsfeeds, comments, profile pages, etc. as well as means for discovering related research based on articles in your library.

Training

The Libraries at University Park offer Mendeley training classes several times each semester.

Support and Services

For technical questions, visit the Mendeley Getting Started page and FAQ.

For questions about citation tools, contact the University Libraries’ Citation Tools Help team at ul-cit-tools-help@lists.psu.edu.