Mendeley: Getting Started

1. Sign up for a free Mendeley account by visiting: mendeley.com

2. Install Mendeley Desktop -by visiting Download Mendeley Desktop

   Optional: install Mendeley on your iOS and Android mobile devices 

 3. Install Web Importer

Adapted from guides by the librarians of Washington University, St. Louis and the publisher of Mendeley, Elsevier.

7 ways to add documents to Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

With Mendeley, you can:

• Create and manage citations of books, articles, videos, and more
• Import citations from many databases 
• Extract metadata from imported PDFs
• Collaborate with other researchers online
• Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
• Highlight and annotate papers and share those notes with others
• Organize your sources using groups, tags, and filters

This tutorial covers all basic features.