Mendeley is one of the Reference Manager Software that is often recommended by Online journal managers and Editors, both domestically and abroad. This is why you often find the Mendeley logo in the sidebar to the right of the journal page (especially domestic/Indonesian journals). Besides being free, Mendeley actually has other features that are very useful for a researcher.
In the aim of introduce, deepen and maximize Mendeley's functions, it had been held the one day training of "Mendeley as Our Personal Digital Library" organized by IAIN Salatiga Library on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at IAIN Salatiga Library, Campus III, Lingkar Salatiga Street, Pulutan, Sidorejo, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia. The training material which had been discussed were:
- Mendeley account registration
- Installing Mendeley Desktop, Web Importer, and Microsoft Word Plugin
- Search references in the Mendeley database
- Import / add references (or PDF documents) to Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web
- Add references manually, create folders, tag reference sources
- Add annotations (important notes) and highlights (important highlights to the text) in references on Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web
- Automatically create quotes and bibliography
- Set the style and language of citation (APA, MLA, Harvard, etc.)