Mendeley Institutional

What is Mendeley
Mendeley is a reference manager and an academic social network that allows to manage your research, showcase your work, connect and collaborate with over six million researchers worldwide. Mendeley allows you:

Generate bibliographies automatically.
Find relevant documents of your areas of interest.
Easily import documents from other platforms.
Collaborate easily with other online users.
Access your documents from anywhere via web.

Mendeley combines a desktop version (Mendeley Desktop) with a web version (Mendeley Web), which must be synchronized.

How to access to Mendeley

On the UAB Campus

In a PC connected to UAB Campus, go to http://www.mendeley.com
At Mendeley web, you must choose 2 options:

2a. If you don’t have any Mendeley account, choose the option Create an account and fill out the form with your personal and academic data

2b. If you have a free Mendeley account and you want to upgrade it to Mendeley Institutional Edition, you must choose the option Sign in and log in with the username and password of your free account.

Being connected in a UAB Campus PC, Mendeley automatically detects that you have the institutional benefits
Check at https://www.mendeley.com/settings/subscription/ that your account is Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)
From now on, you can access to your Mendeley account from anywhere with the MIE benefits
This access will lasts for one year. At the end of this year, you will receive an e-mail suggesting you that, if you are still members of UAB community, you should renew your institutional access. To achieve this, you must access to your Mendeley account with a PC connected to UAB Campus and the renovation will be done automatically.

Off the UAB Campus

Go to Mendeley via our ARE service: https://login.are.uab.cat/login?url=https://login.are.uab.cat/login?url=https://www.mendeley.com
Log in with your own NIU and password
At Mendeley web, you must choose 2 options:

3a. If you don’t have any Mendeley account, choose the option Create an account and fill out the form with your personal and academic data

3b. If you have a free Mendeley account and you want to upgrade it to Mendeley Institutional Edition, you must choose the option Sign in with the username and password of your free account

Being connected via our ARE service, Mendeley automatically detects that you have the institutional benefits
Check at https://www.mendeley.com/settings/subscription/ that your account is Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)
From now on, you can access to your Mendeley account from anywhere with the MIE benefits
This access will lasts for one year. At the end of this year, you will receive an e-mail suggesting you that, if you are still members of UAB community, you should renew your institutional access. To achieve this, you must access to your Mendeley account via our ARE service again, and the renovation will be done automatically

Tutorials

Guíde and exercises - UAB Libraries
Video-tutorial - UAB Libraries
Quick reference guide (in catalan) (in english)
Mendeley video tutorials
Mendeley Resource Center
Mendeley Support & Faqs

Other tutorials :
Mendeley (Universidad de León)
Mendeley Parte 1 / Parte 2 / Parte 3 (Antonio Parada) in catalan
BiblioSaúde (Carmen Rodríguez Otero)
Universidad de Salamanca (Julio Alonso)

Mendeley Institutional

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