Mendeley Desktop

It is important to keep your library organised so that you can easily retrieve references you need. In this section we look at various activities essential to keeping your library organised, and also look at how to share your Mendeley library with others.

• Searching your library: If your Mendeley library contains many references it is useful to be able to search it to retrieve particular references.
• Using folders: Organise your references into folders to make them easier to find or to categorise them to assist your research workflow.
• Deleting references.
• Managing full text documents: Learn how to add files to references, view and annotate attached PDFs and manage your full text settings.
• Dealing with duplicates: It is important to ensure you have no duplicate references in your library.
• Sharing references: Mendeley Groups: As Mendeley is web-based, it is a great tool for sharing references with others.

Mendeley Desktop continues to be available for existing users but is no longer available to download and is no longer under development. For guidance on using the new Mendeley Reference Manager, Mendeley Cite and Mendeley Web, see our Mendeley guide.