Introduction to Mendeley

Location: Queen Square Library Training Room, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1st Floor, 23 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG

Booking a place: To make a booking please email neurolibrary@ucl.ac.uk. Please note: courses may be cancelled at short notice if too few bookings have been received and your booking is only secured when you have received a confirmation email from us.

Course outline: Mendeley is a package for collecting and organising reference information and for citing references in a Word document. It enables you to cite references and produce a bibliography automatically in a preferred style and is especially useful for those writing papers and theses.
By the end of the session you will:

• understand what Mendeley is and what it can do
• be able to create, open and close an Mendeley Library
• be able to add and edit a reference manually and by importing information from electronic sources such as databases and library catalogues
• be able to organise and manage references
• be able to insert citations and bibliographies into a Word document