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I and my coworkers have used Mendeley to manage scientific research paper references and citations. It allows generation of properly …
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What is Mendeley?
Mendeley, an Elsevier company headquartered in London, offers their eponymous reference management software suite, including Mendeley Reference Manager, Web Importer, the Citation Plugin add-on, available in Premium package.
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What is Mendeley?
Mendeley, an Elsevier company headquartered in London, offers their eponymous reference management software suite, including Mendeley Reference Manager, Web Importer, the Citation Plugin add-on, available in Premium package.
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April 18, 2023
Decreased functionality since becoming web-based
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I and my coworkers have used Mendeley to manage scientific research paper references and citations. It allows generation of properly formatted citations with a Word plugin which saves much time.
- It is free
- It has available citation styles for every journal
- It allows reading of papers along with citing them
- In my opinion, terrible web-based function in the new version
- Very difficult to annotate and search in PDF's
- New version removed many previous functions
- Reference management
- Paper annotation
- Citation formatting
- Saves time when submitting papers to different journals
- Organizing references from different topics/projects
- Annotating papers
July 13, 2021
Best for sharing and citing your references.
Mendeley is used daily in our Research Department, initially for organizing external references, for sharing them, and most of the work in Mendeley is for annotating and extracting information. Also, once we are writing our content, we always come back to Mendeley to create references and properly maintain our Bibliography. Outside of our work unit, nobody else uses it within our organization.
- Organizing references
- Sharing references
- Annotating documents
- Summary capabilities for non research personnel
- Getting documents from watch folders automatically
- Sharing research
- Annotating documents
- It is great that for instance, you download the paper you need once, and share it with your entire team.
- You can present your annotation with the team!
Mendeley is best for citations, has all the reference formats you need, with integrations with Microsoft Word and LaTex, flawlessly shares documents with your team, its graphical user interface is not fancy. Still, it gets the job done and all of this for a few dollars a month.
October 27, 2020
Mendeley = Mostly Okay
As a graduate student, I use Mendeley both individually, managing references for my own research, and as part of a group of 4-5 research staff. I've used Mendeley to manage >800 citations across the systematic review pipeline -- from downloading titles and abstracts, screening titles and abstracts using multiple reviewers (though group folders), and ultimately full-text review and markup. I also used Mendeley for a range of academic work to archive and index my needed sources.
- Easy to use interface
- The use of font size and style makes information easily discoverable within the article previews
- Drag-and-drop functions make article indexing particularly simple
- Syncing errors when using multiple devices occur infrequently (but still too often), leading to lost work and retrieved articles
- Mendeley's servers sometimes are down, which prevents group work from being conducted on multiple machines through group folders
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September 26, 2019
Mendeley Keeps You Organized and Does the Work for You!
Mendeley is used to organize our research. We provide forensic evaluations for the courts and saving and organizing research articles to be placed in the back of our bibliography section is required. Mendeley can be added as an add-in into Microsoft Word and also easily copied into the correct reference format, saving us time and headache.
- Easily works with Word
- Importing different reference formats
- Organization
- Finding relevant references
- Some bugs noted with Word, especially when tables are included, had to uninstall add-in from Word for the tables to work correctly.
- Finding books for research and being able to place the titles as references. We can import them from other sources, however, working, for instance, in conjunction with Google, would help to gather citations from other relevant work other than journal articles.
- Mendely has a free and paid version. Thus, you can start with the free version first, making it an ideal choice.
- Saves time and money by easily formatting APA style or any other style without hiring a consultant
- Gives links to the full article, thus further saving time in research.
I have used Zotero and both are comparable. All of them seem to more or less have the same features, and I think there’s a learning curve for all of them. Chose Mendeley due to its features being fairly easy to use.
April 11, 2019
Mendeley - great for organizing research materials
Used by our department at this time. Used by employees who are involved in research to store, organize and easily access research articles for various projects.
- Organize articles
- Insert references in manuscript
- Create Bibliography
- Resolving duplication of articles
- Extract information from websites
- Unsure of ROI for business
Microsoft EndNote. Mendeley has better user interface and is able to store, sort and organize a large number of articles effectively. Also can import and extract information from citations from articles online without the entire full text pdf availability. Can be used and accessed from portable devices such as iPads and mobile phones as well.