How Mendeley Helps to Your Research Work?

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The paper highlights the key features of Mendeley reference management software. Mendeley is reference manager/citation management software that helps to manage your research data in systematic way. The papers discuss how a Mendeley can help to the researchers, users and academician. And also discuss the features and limitation of Mendeley software.

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HOW MENDELEY HELPS TO YOUR RESEARCH
WORK?
Lambodara Parabhoi
Professional Assistant
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shim la, (H.P.)
suresh 19871987@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The paper highlights the key features of Mendeley reference management
software. Mendeley is reference manager/citation management software
that helps to manage your research data in systematic way. The papers
discuss how a Mendeley can help to the researchers, users and
academician. And also discuss the features and limitation of Mendeley
software.
Keywords: Mendeley; Citation Management Software; Reference
Management Software; Bibliographic Management Software
INTRODUCTION
Research has been carried out throughout the year in different countries,
organisations, institutions etc. Research is a continuous process. The
Information communication technology (lCT) plays an important role to
generate new knowledge. When we are doing research reference or
citation play an important role. In old times, the researchers searching
literature using different tools and written the references manually. In the
last few years back, the ICT changed a lot. Nowadays there are different
citation management tools or reference managements tools are available
in the markets; some of the tools are freely available to public such as
Zotero and Docear. Proprietary tools like Mendeley, EndNote, RefWorks
etc. Mendeley is one of the popular citation management software.
What is Citations management software?
Citation management software is software specially made for researcher
to store, organise, and cite the personal data or academic papers in an
easy way. According 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 an any bibliographic
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management software is to store, organize, cite and formatting 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 professional
netwerk, create, share your research and discover new research
worldwide. It is largest research collaboration and network. It was
developed initially in August, 2008 in the year now it is purchased by
Elsevier in the year 2013. The latest version of Mendeley desktop is
1.17.7 as on 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
plan for storing data such as Plus plan and MIE users now they will
storage up 5GB pay $4.99, Pro plan users' limit will increase from 5GB
to 10GB. Pay 9.99$. Max plan offer data unlimited with pay 14.99 $.
According to Mendeley's eo-founder and chief executive Victor Henning,
Mendeley has 65 million unique documents and 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 install in Windows, Linux, and Mac
operating system. The user can store up to 2GB data with 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 play an important role when generating, citing and
storing of research papers.
Review of Related Literature
(Gunn, 2014) stated that, Mendeley is desktop software that help the user
for collaborating and organizing of documents. It offers a website for
discovery of research and expertise, and it is a programmatic interface
that provides data and functionality for much other service.
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

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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 is
published from different discipline such as Psychology, Health, Clinical
Medicine and Biomedical Research. The data has 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 system 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 upgraded with
minimum cost.
• Drag and drop: This is adding 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 help to imports documents from 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 offer import record form many well-known
database. User can easy export the bibliographic data from web .It
is support variety of website like Amazone, Bomed Central, ACM
Portal, BioOne, Cite SeerX, IEEE, CiteULike , Google Scholar,
Google Book Search and EBSCO etc. User can also import the
data from EndNote, RIS, Zotero and Bibtex etc.
• Export: Mendeley can export data different formats such as
Bibtex, RIS, End note Xml VS, Xl or X2
• Word Processing:
It
has compatible plug-in with Ms-Word, open
Library and LibreOffice. A user can easily export full

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bibliography, cite the paper in a minute. This feature 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
http://citationstyles.org
• Reading facilities: A researcher can store the research papers,
organise it, sort it, by title, year, author and date added they.
Researcher can read the pdf documents, highlight it, tag it and save
it for future reference. User can also full text of the personal
library. A researcher can see the recent added documents, recent
read document in 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. User can easily search a document by keywords and the
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Crete private group and public: The Mendeley has power tool for user a
user can create private group and can share the full text documents with
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Readership statistics: Mendeley help the researcher to view the statistic
of reading article and connect it and also see the statistics of research
publications. Statistics will help you to meet new people.
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Data sharing facilities: Mendeley help to the researcher to put the
research data online so that another researcher can see and read cite your
research work. It will be help to promote your own research work.
Careers: A user can search job in the field science and technology jobs
on Mendeley. Currently Mendeley indexed 17,521 plus jobs. A research
scholar cans sear the job by various way like by choosing filtering the
options like discipline wise and location base search. A user can set job
alert service, see the job vacancy by filtering options.

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Discipline location
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Web library: Mendeley help to the researcher to provide access to
material online through web browser; user can see the data, add
documents, manage it. But user has to synchronise regularly the
Mendeley desktop. User can access all the data through 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 down load
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 allow user to manage
his/her research paper. Also allow you share the data worldwide.
Mendeley help to the user to build professional relationship to others.
Mendeley help and guide you for your research work. It is of the power
reference toll among other citations management software.

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