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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 for databases and the WUSTL Classic Catalog
  • 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

Complete collection of Mendeley videos

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Melissa Vetter, Head of Research Services, and the subject librarians at the Washington University libraries in St. Louis, Missouri, for the use of this guide.