How to use Mendeley in academic research management
Course description
Mendeley is a free reference manager. In this course, we will see how Mendeley can help researchers organize their research, as it makes it possible to store, organize, manage and share bibliographic records and documents retrieved from databases.
In addition, one of its features involves the possibility of inserting citations throughout the text and automatically generating reference lists in national and international bibliographic styles.
Objectives
- Understand Mendeley’s contribution to academic research management, know how to create an account and install the tool.
- Create a personal library and learn different ways to add records and documents in desktop and web versions.
- Create folders and subfolders to organize the personal library.
- Edit record information with metadata and identify different document types.
- Use reading tools and insert notes and comments into documents added to the personal library.
- Create user groups and share records and documents among group members.
- Insert citations and references in Word and LibreOffice text editors, using different styles and understanding how to change and install available styles.
Study units
- Getting to know Mendeley: presentation and installation
- Creating a personal library: how to add records and documents in Mendeley
- Organization of records and documents: how to create and manage folders and subfolders
- Editing records: document types and inclusion of metadata
- Reading tools: how to insert notes and highlights
- Sharing records: how to create user groups
- Citations and References: how to insert automatically in text editors
Dedication
- Theoretical study (80%)
- Activity (20%)
Student commitment
- Access
- Study
- Perform activity
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