July 5, 2023

ScienceDirect

 ScienceDirect is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal article database

covering research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences
and humanities.
 It provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and
medical research. It contains the world's largest electronic collection of full-text
and bibliographic information on science, technology and medicine.

Share & Cite functions

 Add to Mendeley

Importing Manually
In ScienceDirect:
1. Perform a search on your topic in ScienceDirect.
2. Under each reference in the results page you will see an "Export Citation"
link.
3. Clicking it will show a list of Export options.
4. Click "Export citation to RIS".
5. Save the reference to your computer desktop or download folder so you
can find it later. It will be named along the lines of
"ScienceDirect_citations_1504881349845.ris" where the number is a
unique identifier.
In Mendeley:
1. Login to Mendeley if you are not already.
2. In your Mendeley library, click the "Add" button. Select "Import RIS (.ris)".
3. Browse your computer for the ""ScienceDirect_citations.ris" file that you
saved from ScienceDirect.
4. Highlight and "Open" it to import the references into your Mendeley library.
Importing References Using PDFs
Mendeley has a simple way of importing references by simply dragging them into
your Mendeley Library. This works both in the web-based and Desktop versions
of Mendeley.
1. Save the article PDF(s) on your computer desktop or download folder so
you can find them again.
2. Login to Mendeley and go to your Library.
 3. Drag each article PDF directly on top of your Mendeley Library list. You
should get a visual confirmation from the interface that Mendeley
understands that you want to "move" a PDF to your Library.
4. Mendeley will parse the text of the article looking for elements to add to
the citation.
Note: The advantage of importing using PDFs is that you can export multiple
PDFs at once whereas you can only export one RIS citation at a time and then
have to separately import the PDF. The disadvantage of this method is that the
resulting citations generally lack some essential fields (see "Caveat" below).
Caveat: It is not uncommon for Mendeley to fail to recognize everything required
to have a complete citation when you import using a PDF. Check your citation
style rules to see what the required fields are. With ScienceDirect articles,
especially check that you have the volume, issue, and pagination of the article;
other fields generally import correctly, but look for typos. Because you have the
source document, you can easily edit the citation to fill in or correct whatever is
missing.

 Share to:
o Email – lets you share the link of a scholarly
journal to peers or colleagues through email
o Facebook – lets you share scholarly articles
to Facebook as a
o Twitter – for sharing journal article
o LinkedIn – for sharing article to LinkedIn
o Reddit – for sharing link of a journal article
to Reddit
 What is Reddit?
- Reddit (play on the words "I read it")
is a discussion forum divided into
communities where users may post
and comment on a variety of topics. It
combines web content, social news,
a forum, and a social network into
one big platform. Registered
members can contribute to the site with content such as images,
text, videos, and links.

 Cite:
o Save to Refworks – lets you cite a
journal article to Refworks
 Refworks is a citation
management tool which manages
bibliographies.
o Export citation to RIS (Research Information System) – file format
exported to M, Z, E
 If Zotero is installed, it will be automatically added to Zotero Library
(because Zotero can read these kinds of formats)
o Export citation to BibTeX – file format exported to M, Z, E
 If Zotero is installed, it will be automatically added to Zotero Library
o Export citation to text – info exported to M, Z, E
 Text with info will be downloaded