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Mendeley

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

With Mendeley, you can:

  • Create and manage citations of books, articles, videos, and more
  • Import citations
  • Automatic metadata extraction from imported PDFs
  • Collaborate with other researchers online
  • Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
  • Highlight and annotate papers and share those notes with others
  • Organize using groups, tags, and filters

Getting started

Follow the steps below to register, download and start using Mendeley:

  1. Visit Mendeley's homepage and create a free account.
  2. Complete the registration form.
  3. Download the Mendeley app on your desktop.
  4. Launch the app and Sign In.

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