This was the first training session I did for using Mendeley as a Reference Management software after being inducted into the Mendeley Advisors' Group. The target group for this presentation was Master's students with no prior experience of doing research or using reference management software. These students had applied for competitive grants to the Research Capacity Building Program being run by the India Research Initiative on Peri-Urban Human-Animal-Environment Health (which employs me at the time of uploading this presentation). In addition to providing them with seed funding to support their Master's theses, the Capacity Building Program also provided multiple opportunities for learning, networking and skill building, including a workshop on the Basics of EcoHealth Research Methods, in course of which this presentation was made.

1. Reference Management with Mendeley
Pranab Chatterjee, MD
Senior Research Associate

2. What is Mendeley?
• Crowdsourced database
– For that paper that eluded you forever
• Open Science!
– Free!
• Reference Manager
– Manage, read, cite papers
• Academic collaboration
network
– Think Facebook, but with
no fake news!
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3. Getting Started: Sign in!
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4. Once signed in…
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5. Your Profile
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6. Connect with me… and each other!
• Find me here:
https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/pranab-
chatterjee2/
• WHY?
– Research networking
– Sharing articles
– Groups for common research topics
– Troubleshoot!
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7. Download Mendeley for Desktop
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8. Downloading…
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9. Installing Mendeley
• Navigate to “Downloads” or the location where your
downloaded file was just saved
• You will see a file like:
– Mendeley-Desktop-1.17-win32
• Double click, follow instructions, install!
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10. Install the Web Importer
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11. Choose Your Browser
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12. The Mendeley Desktop
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13. Mendeley Desktop Library
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14. The References: All Documents
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15. Choosing a Folder: NTDs
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16. Document Details
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17. But…
• You can do all these only when you have added some
documents to Mendeley
• So, how do we add documents to Mendeley?
– Through the desktop, directly
– Via the Web Importer
• But first, go to this link:
– https://goo.gl/5Ev2JF
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18. You should see this paper…
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19. Adding Papers: Web Importer
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20. Check the Mendeley Online Library… hit
refresh!
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21. Check the Mendeley Desktop App…
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Where is the article?

22. You have to remember to sync the Desktop App
with the online library!
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23. Adding Articles: Uploading them to the Online
Mendeley Library
• Download this paper
– https://goo.gl/yN5WB8
• Go to your Mendeley
Online Library
• Click +Add
• Find and upload the
paper we just
downloaded
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24. Et Voila!
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25. A third way of adding files to your library: From
the Mendeley Desktop App
• Download this file:
– https://goo.gl/Huw5fq
• Save it to the desktop or
downloads folder
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26. It is done!
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Go to the online Mendeley library…

27. Sync the Desktop App and Refresh the Online
Library
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28. …but what does this mean?
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29. Exercise 1: Finders Keepers
• Find a study by Ramanan Laxminarayan on the
trends of antibiotic consumption in livestock and
other food animals
• Add it to your online library in Mendeley
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30. Exercise 2: Manually Editing the Entries
• Mendeley may not always correctly identify the
bibliographic information in a file or on a web page
• In such cases you may have to manually edit the
document entry
• download the following paper and edit its entry to
correctly reflect the paper using the online Mendeley
library
– https://goo.gl/iYZPrF
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31. Organizing Your Library
• Now that you can add and edit entries, you may
need to organise the files using folders
• Just like in your computer, putting files in a folder
ensures that it is entered in a particular area
• Helps when you have a long list of research articles
you are working on
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32. What does my library look like?
• You can create folders using:
– The Mendeley Desktop App
– The Online Mendeley Library
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33. Adding Folders: Desktop Mendeley App
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34. Add Files to a Folder
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35. Moving Files: From One Folder to Another
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36. Removing Files from a Folder
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37. The Big One: Citations!
• Install the Mendeley plug in for MS Word
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38. Go to MS Word…
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39. Adding in-text citations in MS Word
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40. Adding a Bibliography at the end of text
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41. Adding New Styles
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42. Installing New Styles (From Available Styles)
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43. Exercise Finale!
• Go to the
following link:
– https://goo.gl/
FmcNkX
• Download the
file
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44. Questions? Concerns? Confusions?
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