Last week, over 30 CGIAR staff from CIAT, ICARDA, IFPRI, IRRI, IWMI and the WorldFish Center based in locations all over the world were given the opportunity to learn about the much talked-about online reference management application, Mendeley in a webinar conducted by Mendeley Director, Jan Reichelt, with input from IFPRI user experiences.
Just before the new year holidays, I posted a blog on online reference management tools, specifically Mendeley, which has been growing in popularity within the scientific community. If you want to organize your references; annotate PDF research papers as is and share them with colleagues and others , Mendeley might be a good place to start.
In essence, there are two levels when it comes to using Mendeley:
A while back, I wrote a blog about social bookmarking and touched on how reference management tools were moving into the online social realm. With so many types of software available, researchers are spoilt for choice. However, Mendeley, which many scientists in the CGIAR are raving about, seems to have hit the nail hard on the head.
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