Mendeley

The Mendeley subscription will end on January 1, 2024. If you do not want to pay for a Mendeley subscription and want to keep all of your stored citations, please transfer your citations to another citation manager such as EndNote, RefWorks, or Zotero. If you have any questions contact askalibrarian@miami.edu.

About

•  Mendeley Desktop
• Mendeley Cite add-in:  to export stored citations in Mendeley to a MS Word document ("cite while you write")  
  • From Mendeley >  select Tools tab
  • From Word - if downloading the Cite add-in from Mendeley doesn't work, download it from Word. 
• Mendeley Help Guides 
• Mendeley Guide Quick

UM has an Institutional Edition of Mendeley. It gives UM students, faculty, and staff more storage space.
 
1. Create an Online account using your UM email:

•  Go to  Mendeley.com and click on the red box "Create a Free Account"
•  Fill in the information boxes. Use your UM email address (typically ends in @miami.edu or @umiami.edu). If you use an email with a different domain, e.g., @hotmail.com you will have a free account but independent of the Institutional version.
•  After you create an account, another screen should appear. The upper left quadrant of the screen is feartured in the image below. Click on the Groups button on the top horizonal bar OR click on + Join a Groups in the lower left corner.

• To complete the process of joining the UM Institutional edition, in the next screen, click on the line which corresponds to the line highlighted in yellow below:

•  To confirm your membership put your name in the search bar where your name should appear:

2. Download the Mendeley Desktop to build and organize your collection of references and documents.
3. Install the Mendeley Web Importer into your web browser to import references and documents.
4. Install the Mendeley MS Word Plugin to insert citations and bibliographies directly into your Microsoft Word document.

• 100 GB personal library space
• Up to 100 collaborative groups 
• 100 GB group library space
• Unlimited public groups of up to 100 members each
• Unlimited private groups of up to 100 members each
• 24/5 customer support service
  • email with MIE in subject line: support@mendeley.com