Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help us organize our research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. The advantages of Mendeley are :
- Automatically generate bibliographies
- Collaborate easily with other researchers online
- Easily import papers from other research software
- Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Mendeley organizes our electronic articles and citations, makes writing a works cited or a list of references a snap, and lets we easily share our work with colleagues across the hall or around the world. What I love most about the system is the ability to conduct a title or keyword as well as a full-text search of the stored pdfs. Mendeley finds each instance of the search term, and allows me to quickly click through each instance. Additionally, Mendeley makes it easy to have several PDFs open at once, and to easily move between them by clicking through the tabs. In addition to the search tool, Mendeley also includes a highlighter, notes areas, and other annotation tools. I’ve been using the general notes area text box to jot down thoughts and page numbers for sources that would not import as PDFs, like books. Since most of my research is available in PDFs, though, the Insert Note annotation feature has been more beneficial in helping me navigate back through an article.
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