If you are using this guide for self-directed learning, you may find it useful to work through these tasks.
Please keep this Mendeley guide open throughout the session. We suggest you open a new tab or window in your browser to access other websites.
See Creating a Mendeley account.
In a new tab, go to the Mendeley website and click on Create account in the top right of the screen. Set up your account by entering your details. You might like to use a personal email address so you can continue to use Mendeley after you leave UCL. Remember do not click on ‘sign in via institution’. This will mean you will be unable to use Mendeley Desktop.
See Mendeley Web – Adding references.
If it isn’t already there, begin by adding the Web Importer to your browser. Go to some sources of journal articles or books and use the Importer to ‘capture’ some references into Mendeley. Examples of sources you might like to try include Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Medline or Embase via OvidSP. For books: Explore (UCL’s library catalogue), Google Books, Amazon or WorldCat.
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See Getting started – Navigating Mendeley Desktop.
To open Mendeley Desktop on a Desktop@UCL PC, select Mendeley Desktop from the start menu. When you first go into Mendeley Desktop it will automatically synchronise with the Web version and add any new references you have added.
See Adding references – Exporting from online resources.
Try exporting more than 10 references at once from a database of your choice into Mendeley Desktop.
See Adding references – Adding PDFs.
Try downloading some PDF documents from the Web to your desktop and then try adding them to your Mendeley library.
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See Organising your desktop library – using folders.
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