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Mendeley Guides and Video Tutorials

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A good way to get started with Mendeley is to visit the Information Retrieval Services’ (IVS-BM) website. The page Mendeley short notes will give you a quick overview and by attending an online workshop you could learn more about the system.

Some other guides and video tutorials we would like to recommend you are the following:

You are not sure which system best suits your needs?
See a nice video from Portland State University Library Zotero vs. Mendeley.

Visual Style Editor for Mendeley and Zotero

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The bibliographic management systems Mendeley, Zotero and Papers use CSL, the open source citation style standard, that allows users of different systems to exchange their citation styles.
More than 2.800 citation styles can be downloaded from the Zotero repository. Until now knowledge of XML syntax was required to customize the styles. The new WYSIWYG citation style editor makes it easier for anyone to edit or create new citation styles.

More about the CLS editor at Mendeley Blog or see
User guide for the CSL Editor
Using the Citation Style Editor with Mendeley Desktop

Online Workshops on Reference Management Systems

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Here are the dates for the new series of online workshops on bibliographic management systems in September and October:

  • Literaturverwaltung mit EndNote (in German) – September 25
  • Reference Management with EndNote – September 27
  • Reference Management with Mendeley – October 11
  • Reference Management with Zotero – October 18
  • Reference Management with Papers – October 25

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

Online Workshops on Mendeley, Zotero and SciFinder

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A new series of online workshops has started. Some of the workshops in June 2012:

  • Reference Management with Mendeley – June 19
  • Reference Management with zotero – June 26
  • SciFinder Workshop Week – June 19-22 (more details [pdf])

All workshops begin at 10:30 am and last 90 minutes.
Attendance is free of charge for staff and guests of the Max Planck Society, but online registration is required.

The online workshops are offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society. Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html

Online Workshops on EndNote, zotero, Mendeley

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There will be some old favorites and several new online workshops offered by the Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society in February.

The interactive workshops focus on some popular new bibliographic management systems:

  • Literaturverwaltung mit EndNote – February 2
  • Reference Management Systems – Introduction & Overview – February 3
  • Reference Management with Papers (for Mac) – February 8
  • Reference Management with EndNote – February 9
  • Reference Management with Mendeley & zotero – February 29

Find more details on schedule, technical requirements and registration at
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/SupportTraining/Workshop/Schedule/index.html