Category: Tips&Tricks

• HOWTO: Use Mendeley to create citations using LaTeX and BibTeX.

  Multiplatform, free, and powerful. I could be using these terms to describe Mendeley Desktop, but what I’m going to write in this blog post is about something else, something called LaTeX and BibTeX. For those of you that are unfamiliar with LaTeX, it’s a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of…

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  Ricardo Vidal

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  October 25, 2011

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• Mendeley on Android – An app guide

  One of the big reasons we created the Open APIs into Mendeley data was because we knew we’d never have the time or resources to create everything that you want and we want. Having Mendeley on mobile devices is obviously a big need. That’s why it is great to see third party developers take our…

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  Jason Hoyt

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  September 23, 2011

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• Organization without aggravation: Quick tips for managing your research library

  All research projects involve two types of activity; work that generates novel information that makes a positive contribution to the world’s store of knowledge and notifying the world about said novel discovery. In the future, researchers will be able to keep working away at the first kind of activity and intelligent agents will follow behind…

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  drgunn

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  August 11, 2011

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• 3 quick ways to use Mendeley for citations anywhere

  Many researchers use Mendeley to format citations as they’re writing papers, but what if you’re working on something a little less formal? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to drop a few citations into a comment or web form or some other application that doesn’t have the tight integration that’s available with Word or…

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  drgunn

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  April 14, 2011

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• Top 5 ways to get more out of Mendeley

  Tip 1: Give yourself a professional face with a Mendeley Web profile. A brief sampling of researchers who actively use Mendeley shows the amazing effect that a complete profile can have. Among researchers who have publications listed on their profile, those with a picture, educational or work experience, or contact info listed have twice as…

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  drgunn

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  March 28, 2011

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