A) Setting up:
- Ga naar Mendeley en maak a gratis account aan
- Download de software om zo Mendeley te installeren op je computer (dit is op UU-computers reeds gedaan; daar kun je Mendeley starten met de via de Windows-startknop)
- Installeer de web importer bookmarklet in je browser vanuit de Mendeley web interface (My Library tab); zorg wel eerst dat je bookmarks/favourites tooolbar zichtbaar is in je browser (duik om dat te doen in je browser opties (Chrome) of stel het in via een rechter muisklik in de statusregel bovenaan (FirefFox))
- Installeer de add on (plug in) voor Word (deze heet Mendeley Cite-o-Matic); dit is de tool die het mogelijk maakt tijdens het schrijven in Word iets te citeren zonder Word te hoeven verlaten. NB dit is waarschijnlijk nog niet mogelijk op UU-computers.
- Configureer je watched folder. Dit is een map op je harde schijf (bv. een die je "literatuur" noemt) die elke keer als je Mendeley start gelezen wordt. PDF-bestanden die je erin opslaat worden zo automatisch toegevoegd aan je Mendeley library. Dit regel je in de desktop applicatie via tools|options|watched folders.
- Configureer eventueel ook nog auto-renaming van bestanden om je files met een vaste naamconventie op te slaan (bv auteur-jaar-titel)
- Geef het adres op van de library link resolver (UBU-link). Je kunt dit doen in de web interface (ga naar de My Account|Account details|Sharing/importing tab en voeg daar bij library access links het andres van de UBUlink in (without the qoutes): "https://utrechtuniversity.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/link". Maak dit de default.
B) Getting some stuff in:
- Go to Google Scholar, perform a search and import bibliographical data with the bookmarklet ('save to Mendeley') on your favourites toolbar
- Go to WorldCat, perform a search and import bibliographical data with the bookmarklet on your favourites toolbar (importing from Worldcat is a good alternative for importing form the UU library catalogue, which is more cumbersome)
- Go to Scopus, perform a search and import bibliographical data with the direct export option built into Scopus (tick relevant papers, click export and select save to Mendeley)
- From a new Scopus search go to the full text of a paper and from your PDF reader download that text as PDF in the folder on your hard disk that you set as watch folder
- On the Mendeley web interface go to the papers tab and search the Mendeley catalog for a paper; from there save the details to Mendeley or go to the full text and save the PDF to the watched folder on your hard drive
- Find out how you could add a reference completely manually (although you hope to avoid that of course)
C) Organising, reading, annotating
- Have a look at your library to see what you have imported/downloaded so far; look at what's in the recently added and needs review folders (incomplete references are in the needs review folder)
- From your library, open the full text of a publication, highlight some text and make an annotation at a certain point in the text
- Organise: add a tag to a reference tag (in the right hand pane with publication details) and make a folder (left hand pane) and drag&drop a publication in that folder
- Sync your library with your online account (sync button in the main menu)
D) Citing (probably not yet possible on university computers):
- Start Word
- Make a fake sentence, put your cursor halfway and save your document
- Using Mendeley Cite-o-Matic on the references tab of Word cite one publication from your Mendeley database
- Put your cursor on the in-text citation and click edit citation in the Medeley Cite-o-Matic menu to see how you can fine tune an in-text citation (e.g. for page numbers); N.B. you need to put your cursor in the textline of the edit citation dialog box to see the options
- Generate the bibliography using the option for that in Mendeley Cite-o-Matic
- Switch to another style (e.g. to APA or Chicago Style) and reformat the paper with that style