What does Mendeley offer to you? How to get upgraded to Mendeley Premium Seats?

Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a free cross-platform, cloud-based reference management software. It offers many options to manage literature/ references (as an individual or a group), work with PDFs and write a paper including footnotes and a bibliography more easily - learn more about Mendeley in this video and in the Mendeley Quick Reference Guide.

More on Mendeley:

• Mendeley ReferenceManager-guide
• Literaturverwaltungsprogramme im Vergleich/Comparison of Reference Management Software[TU München, only in German, last update: 3. July 2020]: This document compares features, handling and licence and pricing models of reference management applications (Citavi, EndNote, EndNote Web, Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef, Colwiz, Zoterobib). Please feel free to reuse this TUM-document and contact TUM University Library for the original data.

What exactly does Mendeley offer to you?

• Cross-platform: can be used on Windows, Mac or Linux as well as mobile devices
• Automatic synchronisation of literature collections (both, Mendeley Online and Mendeley Desktop) via the cloud
• Automatic import of references from Web of Science, Google Scholar and many other sources (via Mendeley Web Importer)
• Collaboration on literature collections and projects (via Mendeley Groups see Guide on Groups)
• Integrated PDF processing tool
• Automatic compilation of literature lists / bibliographies (via plug-in in different word processing programs – how to install and use the plugin see here).
• Large selection of predefined citation styles.
• advanced search features

Once a librarian has completed all three levels of “Mendeley Certification Program for Librarians”, their institution receives a free premium Mendeley upgrade for up to 500 of their users. Mendeley Premium Seats was activated on 20.10.2015 and ended on 31.3. 2017 - with Mendeley Premium you benefit from the following Mendeley Premium Features (you will keep the premium features as long as you keep your current institutional email address):

• Increase in personal storage for each user, from 2 GB to 100 GB  (formerly to 5 GB)
• Increase in group storage, from 100 MB to 100 GB (formerly to 20 GB)
• Increase in private group size, from three to 25 members (also enhanced, will be updated when official / secured data is obtained)
• Increase in number of private groups, from one to unlimited
• Automatic literature recommendations (Mendeley Suggest)

(The official going-live of the Mendeley Premium Seats was on October, the 20th -together with the Scopus/Mendeley workshop held by HZI Library)

BTW: Library's Mendeley Service (Mendeley Premium Seats) is part of the InFact-issue 3, 2016: http://intranet-hzi/I/Z/OeA/InFact2/Forms/Infact Archiv.aspx > HZI_Infact-2016_03 (Deutsch), p. 2: ""Premiumpaket zur Literaturverwaltung" (Intranet, authentification with you personal PC-login details necessary)

Institutional Group (for HZI-, HIPS- and Twincore-members)

Make the most of the aforementioned advantages by joining as member of HZI, HIPS or Twincore the institutional Mendeley-group

HZI (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research), HIPS, Twincore.

Of course, you can also join when you don't want to upgrade right now ;-)

Upgrade to Mendeley Premium Seats was possible until March 2017

Please contact Mrs. Schulz (sch13) in case of questions or problems.