T A PAI MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE MANIPAL – 576104 KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE SHARING SEMINAR (KESS) MENDELEY FOR RESEARCHERS – A DEMO Prof. Kedar P. Joshi TAPMI, Manipal 3:00 pm, September 04, 2013 (Wednesday) F2 Classroom, TAPMI Campus ABOUT THIS KESS This hands‐on session will cover how to use the free software Mendeley to better organize and access your electronic article library. The best free way to manage your researches through three steps organize, share and discover. Mendeley can automatically locate, rename, and organize your PDFs. It includes a fast PDF reader and your library can be synced to the cloud and easily shared with others. It can even create bibliographies in any of hundreds of styles. The software, Mendeley Desktop, offers user: Automatic extraction of document details (authors, title, journal etc.) from academic papers into a library database, which saves you a lot of manual typing! Super‐efficient management of your papers: "Live" full‐text search across all your papers – the results start to appear as you type! Mendeley Desktop also lets you filter your library by authors, journals or keywords. You can also use document collections, notes and tags to organize your knowledge, and export the document details in different citation styles. Sharing and synchronization of your library (or parts of it) with selected colleagues. This is perfect for jointly managing all the papers in your lab! More great features: A plug‐in for citing your articles in Microsoft Word, OCR (image‐to‐text conversion, so you can full‐text search all your scanned PDFs), etc. The website, Mendeley Web, supplements Mendeley Desktop by offering user following features: An online backup of your library; Detailed statistics of all things interesting and a research network. Contact: Research Promotion Committee (RPC) TAPMI, Manipal ‐ 576104 0820‐270‐1034 Email: [email protected]