The new Mendeley Reference Manager has been designed with a huge range of features that simplify your referencing workflow and help you stay organized and fully focused on your research. Here are a few that you might have missed!
Save time with Metadata DOI Lookup.
A DOI, or Digital Object Identifier , is a unique set of characters assigned to a digital document such as a scholarly article.
When you insert a reference that contains a DOI into your Mendeley library, you can search for the reference and fill in the reference metadata with a single click, saving you from having to manually input information for each reference. Metadata is important as it helps us easily understand what an article is about, and this is especially useful when having your work cited or citing references yourself – which has been made simple with Mendeley Cite.
All you have to do is open the information panel by selecting the reference and scroll down to see if your reference contains a DOI.
If it does, select the small magnifying glass icon and your reference information will automatically be updated.
Balance Collaboration and Privacy with Groups
Groups allow you to collaborate with your colleagues and peers to build a shared corpus of references on topics. You can either be invited to one, or easily create one yourself.
But did you know that any reference you add to a group library is a separate copy to the reference in your personal library. Which means any notes/annotations/comments in your personal copy are kept private so you don’t have to worry about anyone reading your research before it’s ready.
To start using these, and the whole range of features that Mendeley Reference Manager has to offer to help you simplify your referencing, download Mendeley Reference Manager here.
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