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Mendeley: Research Management

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references.

What You Can Do with Mendeley Reference Manager

Import references using a variety of methods:

  • Drag and drop PDFs from your computer
  • Import files from your computer
  • Manually create an entry

Import files drop-down options.

  • Organize your references using Mendeley’s smart collections or by creating your own custom collections
  • Search your references by author, title, year and source

Ways to organize and prioritize sources.

  • Annotate PDFs with sticky notes
  • Highlight text, using different colors to differentiate
  • Work on multiple PDFs at once using the multi-tab format
  • Mendeley remembers where you reach in a document and opens your PDFs in the same location on all devices

Highlighting in Mendeley.

  • Private Groups: These invite-only groups allow you to share PDFs and annotations

Private group chats.

  • Mendeley Reference Manager desktop and web versions are identical in look and functionality
  • Your library automatically syncs with its backup in the cloud whenever you add references or make changes
  • Set your library to be available offline and work where you want

Mendeley Notebook

Collect together all the highlights and comments you make across multiple PDFs using your Mendeley Notebook:

  • Add any highlighted text from a PDF to your Notebook in one click
  • Navigate back to the source of any highlight by selecting it in your Notebook
  • Keep the same Notebook page in view while switching between PDFs
  • Make as many Notebook pages as you need

Mendeley Notebook pages shown on right hand side of screen.