What is Mendeley?
Mendeley is a free reference or citation management software that can offer the usual citation management tools, including organizing reference, sharing citations with colleagues, reading and annotating full text, and easily inserting citations into documents.
Who can use Mendeley?
Mendeley is open source and available to anyone to download.
Why Mendeley?
The Mendeley desktop is comparable to the EndNote desktop in terms of functionality, but freely available. The Mendeley web importer is also useful.
Download Mendeley Desktop
Install Microsoft Word Plug-In and Mendeley Web Importer
Install Mendeley App (iPad, iPhone, Android)
Sync between Mendeley Desktop, Mendeley Web and the Mendeley App
Entering References into the Mendeley Library
Mendeley Cite-O-Matic
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