Assignment -1

IMPORTANCE OF MENDELEY SOFTWARE IN REPORT WRITING

NAME : AADISH GARG

ENROLLMENT : 16803020

What is Citations management software?

Citation management software is software specially made for researchers to store, organise,
and cite the personal data or academic papers in an easy way. According to Wikipedia
"Reference management software, citation management software or personal bibliographic
management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising
bibliographic citations". Main function of any bibliographic management software is to store,
organize, cite and format the bibliographic data in a systematic way.

Mendeley
It is a web based fermium citation management tool or reference management tool and social
networks allow a user to build a professional network, create, share your research and discover
new research worldwide. It is the largest research collaboration and network. It was developed
initially in August, 2008 in the year it was purchased by Elsevier in the year 2013. The latest
version of Mendeley desktop is 1.17.7 as of Feb, 2017. Mendeley, named after the biologist
Gregor Mendel and chemist Dmitri Mendeley was founded in November 2007 by three German
Ph.D. students and is based in London. The first public beta version was released in August
2008 (Wikipedia, 2017). It 'Offers feveral plans for storing data such as Plus plan and MIE users
now they will store up 5GB pay $4.99, Pro plan users' limit will increase from 5GB to 10GB. Pay
9.99$. Max plan offers unlimited data with pay 14.99 $. According to Mendeley's eo-founder and
chief executive Victor Henning, Mendeley has 65 million unique documents and is uploaded by
nearly 2 million users. 30 per cent larger even than mainstream citation databases Scopus and
the Web of Knowledge, while three recent studies estimated that its coverage of current
peer-reviewed research papers, either via abstracts or full documents, was between 93 and 98
percent (Jump, 2012). Mendeley can store, organised, sort, cite the bibliographic data. It is a
cross platform software, it can be installed in Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. The
user can store up to 2GB data for free of cost. The Mendeley has two versions one is
standalone and another web version. The Mendeley offer plug-in several web browsers such as
Chrome, Safari and Firefox web browser. Mendeley received several awards such as European
Start-up of the Year 2009 and TechCrunch Europa's. Mendeley plays an important role when
generating, citing and storing research papers.

Review of Related Literature

(Gunn, 2014) stated that Mendeley is desktop software that helps the user for collaborating and
organizing documents. It offers a website for discovery of research and expertise, and it is a
programmatic interface that provides data and functionality for many other services. According
to (Zahedi, Costas, & Wouters, 2014) Mendeley is a global reference management tool and a
rich source of readerships and collects a wide variety of different metadata per publication such
as total 66 NCALC-2017 I Libraries Beyond Borders number of readers, tags assigned by the
users, statistics for discipline, country and academic status which are saved by the different
types of users when creating their own libraries. (Haustein & Lariviere, 2014) made an attempt
to explore readership counts based on 1.2 million documents of scientific papers which are
published from different disciplines such as Psychology, Health, Clinical Medicine and
Biomedical Research. The data has been collected from Mendeley sites. (Zaugg, West,
Tateishi, & Randall, 2011) view that Mendeley is a free, web-based tool for organizing research
citations and annotating their accompanying PDF articles and discuss the features of Mendeley
and compare to other similar tools.

Features

• ​Cross Platform​: Mendeley has the ability to install in many operating systems like Windows,
Linux, MacOS . Now Mendeley also available in mobile version Android app and iPad app

• ​Storage​: Mendeley can store up to 2GB freely available to the user if user wish to extend the
storage capacity by upgrading with minimum cost.

• ​Drag and drop​: This is a feature of Mendeley you can quickly adding data with your existing
library by drag and drop and saves them securely the data in to the Mendeley desktop for future
access.

• ​Web Importer​: Mendeley helps to import documents directly from the web and academic
database to Mendeley software. It is available in all important web browser such as Firefox,
Chrome, Internet and Safari

• ​Import​: Mendeley offers import records from many well-known databases. Users can easily
export the bibliographic data from the web .It supports a variety of websites like Amazon,
Biomed Central, ACM Portal, BioOne, Cite SeerX, IEEE, CiteULike , Google Scholar, Google
Book Search and EBSCO etc. Users can also import the data from EndNote, RIS, Zotero and
Bibtex etc.

• ​Export​: Mendeley can export data different formats such as Bibtex, RIS, Endnote Xml VS, Xl
or X2

• ​Word Processing​: It has a compatible plug-in with Ms-Word, open Library and LibreOffice. A
user can easily export full How Mendeley Helps to your Research Work? 67 bibliography, cite
the paper in a minute. This feature is very much important for a researcher when he/she writing
a academic paper.
• ​Reference style​: Mendeley offers more than 6,000 styles from all the top journals. It's used
Citations style language (CSL) and regularly fetch citations style from citation style repository

• ​Reading facilities​: A researcher can store the research papers, organise it, sort it, by title,
year, author and date added there. Researchers can read the pdf documents, highlight it, tag it
and save it for future reference. Users can also full text of the personal library. A researcher can
see the recently added documents, recent read documents in an easy way. A user can use
keyword search from the store data within the Mendeley desktop.

• ​Full text searching​: Mendeley facilitates full text searching to the user. Users can easily
search a document by keywords and the search will reflect in a second.

How MendeIey help to your research work?

Social network​: It has social networking features. Mendeley allows a researcher to build his/her
research network to other researchers. He or She is able to create an online account and create
research interest pages and Remy Aziz.,Ph.D Libraries Beyond Borders save it. The Mendeley
automatically suggests some papers, Authors related to your research area of interest. A
researcher can create a group, maintain it, share it and view the old group list. Crete private
group and public: The Mendeley has a power tool for users. A user can create a private group
and can share the full text documents with limited people.

Readership statistics​: Mendeley helps the researcher to view the statistics of reading articles
and connect it and also see the statistics of research publications. Statistics will help you to
meet new people.

Data sharing facilities​: Mendeley helps the researcher to put the research data online so that
another researcher can see and read and cite your research work. It will help to promote your
own research work.

Careers​: A user can search for jobs in the field science and technology jobs on Mendeley.
Currently Mendeley indexed 17,521 plus jobs. A research scholar can search the job by various
ways like by choosing filtering the options like discipline wise and location based search. A user
can set a job alert service, see the job vacancy by filtering options.

Web library​: Mendeley helps the researcher to provide access to material online through a web
browser; users can see the data, add documents, manage it. But users have to synchronise
regularly the Mendeley desktop. Users can access all the data through a web browser.

Mendeley Web Catalog​: Mendeley web Catalog allow to a user to search the data which are
added by other Mendeley users if the full text is available user can directly download
Limitations

• Mendeley only offer 2 GB of space for free account

• The Mendeley can only extract the data From PDF only
• It is also find that Mendeley extract metadata are not 100 % correct from PDF

CONCLUSION

Mendeley is reference manager/citation software that allows users to manage his/her research
paper. Also allow you to share the data worldwide. Mendeley helps the user to build
professional relationships with others. Mendeley helps and guides you for your research work. It
is of the power reference toll among other citations management software.