Mendeley 桌面(Mendeley desktop)是学术或学生的最佳研究工具之一。无论您进行何种研究，这都是您需要的工具类型，以使其尽可能顺利进行。
如果您从未听说过Mendeley，或者想了解如何充分利用它，那么该软件如何提高您的研究技能。
什么是 Mendeley 桌面？(What Is Mendeley Desktop?)
在我们进一步讨论之前，我们需要弄清楚Mendeley Desktop是什么以及不是什么。Mendeley是Mendeley 研究(Mendeley research)生态系统的桌面应用程序组件。(application component)该软件位于您的台式计算机上(desktop computer)，独立于 Web 界面或移动应用程序。
当然，Mendeley 移动(Mendeley mobile)应用程序也是整个系统的重要组成部分。云服务(cloud service)是将这一切联系在一起的粘合剂。我们还将涉及整个服务的这些其他组件，但手头的主要主题是桌面应用程序。
Mendeley：免费与高级(Mendeley: Free vs Premium)
过去，Mendeley的免费版本有一些相当严重的限制。然而，如今，免费服务和高级服务之间的主要区别在于您获得的云存储量。免费用户获得 2 GB 的云存储空间，而高级用户获得的数量不断增加，具体取决于他们支付的金额。
免费用户还可以创建五个私人组，最多可以有 25 个协作者。稍后我们将讨论此组协作功能(group collaboration feature)。独立研究人员或学生不太可能只为高级版本付费。
如果您需要更大的协作组或大量云存储，您很可能会获得Mendeley(Mendeley)的某种机构许可，因为您可能在大学或研究机构工作(university or research institution)。请记住(Remember)在付款前与您的机构核实。
第一步：摄取资源(The First Step: Ingesting Sources)
Mendeley Desktop的核心是一个参考管理工具(reference management tool)。如果您没有资源数据库，则无法对该程序进行任何操作。由于手动输入每个来源的详细信息可能很乏味，Mendeley Desktop提供了一些简洁的工具来帮助加快流程。
大多数学术文章都以PDF 文档(PDF document)的形式出现。您可以指定硬盘驱动器上的特定文件夹以供Mendeley Desktop观看。您复制到此文件夹中的 任何 PDF都将自动收录到您的数据库中。(Any PDFs)
Mendeley将尝试自动从文档中提取正确的信息，即使每个PDF具有非常不同的格式。您确实需要确保信息正确无误，但从长远来看，这将节省大量时间。
如果您确实需要手动输入来源，有时只需输入标题，然后将来源标记为“需要审查”即可。然后Mendeley(Mendeley)将对照 Google Scholar检查标题，如果找到匹配项，则会自动填写所有信息。
您还应该确保为您的来源创建自定义列表。当您第一次在Mendeley中输入新的研究资源时，所有这些都进入了未分类的堆。如果您正在处理多个论文或项目，这不是一个很好的离开方式。
注释和注释(Annotations & Notes)
将新的研究论文(research paper)加载到Mendeley 数据库(Mendeley database)后，您可以突出显示重要的文本片段并为自己和团队成员留下注释。
对于任何从事学术研究的人来说，这都是一个关键特征。当您进行研究时，可能会堆积数百个来源。重要的是要突出显示与您自己的论文相关的所有部分，并在阅读其他人的研究时有条不紊地跟踪您当时的想法。
Mendeley Desktop 最好的部分是自动引用(The Best Part of Mendeley Desktop Is Automated Citation)
询问任何(Ask anyone)必须进行学术写作的人，他们会告诉你写作中最乏味的部分之一就是必须在文章结尾处引用引文和参考书目。Mendeley Desktop的一大优点是您可以自动化几乎所有的引文杂务。
您所要做的就是努力在您的Mendeley 数据库(Mendeley database)中收集您所有的研究资源。然后，当您撰写论文时，您可以在文字处理器中使用(word processor)Mendeley Desktop的插件，随时插入引文。
真正的魔力在您完成并且必须将您的来源或参考书目列表放在一起时出现。如果您在进行过程中将所有引文放入您的文章中，您只需单击一个按钮即可自动以正确的学术引文格式(citation format)生成整个来源列表。
对于较短的论文来说，这没什么大不了的，但如果我们谈论的是一篇完整的论文或一篇包含数百个来源 的长篇研究论文，这感觉就像是有史以来最好的功能。(research paper)
门德利非常适合团队(Mendeley Is Great For Teams)
Mendeley Desktop非常适合独立从事研究项目的学生以及独自写作和出版的学者。然而，这些天来，绝大多数的趋势是与其他学者共同出版。毕竟是“发布或灭亡”。(publish or perish)
Mendeley有一些出色的协作工具，可以让人们集体收集文献、共享注释以及以其他方式分担研究工作量。这不仅意味着您可以更快地完成工作，还意味着您可以向团队中比您更有经验的研究人员学习。
Mendeley 可以帮助您找到重要的论文(Mendeley Can Help You Find Important Papers)
无论您从事哪个学科，重要的是始终了解最新研究。Mendeley是一个非常强大的工具，可用于查找您应该阅读的新论文。该功能称为Mendeley Suggest，它使用您的个人资料以及监控哪些论文被阅读和引用最多的系统，在涉及到您的阅读列表时向您提出建议。
您将看到对您的领域产生重大影响的文章，您可能应该阅读这些文章。这是对旧式文献综述(literature review)的巨大飞跃。当然，您不应该单独依赖Mendeley Suggest之类的东西。
军械库中最重要的研究工具(The Most Essential Research Tool In Your Arsenal)
学术出版巨头爱思(publishing giant) 唯(Elsevier)尔收购Mendeley以及多年来如此受欢迎的原因是有原因的。这款软件消除了研究和学术写作中的许多乏味。这不仅会让你成为一个更有生产力的学者，它也会让你更有动力去实际写作！
知道工作中繁琐的部分是自动化的或更快地完成意味着您可以对您的研究写作感到兴奋而不是恐惧感。这远远超过了战斗的一半。
How Mendeley Desktop Can Boost Your Research Skills
Mendeley desktop is one of the best research tools for academics or students out there.No matter what sort of research you do, this is the type of tool you need to make it go as smoothly as possible.
If you’ve never heard of Mendeley or want to find out how to get the most out of it, here’s how this software can boost your research skills.
What Is Mendeley Desktop?
Before we go any further, we need to clear up exactly what Mendeley Desktop is and what it isn’t. Mendeley is the desktop application component of the Mendeley research ecosystem. This software lives on your desktop computer and is separate from the web interface or the mobile applications.
Of course, the Mendeley mobile applications are an important part of the overall system too. The cloud service is the glue that ties it all together. We’ll touch on these other components of the overall service as well, but the main topic at hand is the desktop application.
Mendeley: Free vs Premium
In the past, the free version of Mendeley came with some rather serious limitations. These days however, the main difference between the free service and the premium service is the amount of cloud storage you get. Free users get two gigabytes of cloud storage whereas premium users get ever-increasing amounts depending on how much they pay.
Free users also have the ability to create five private groups that can have up to 25 collaborators. We’ll talk about this group collaboration feature a little later. It’s very unlikely that independent researchers or students only pay for the premium version.
If you need larger collaboration groups or a lot of cloud storage, you are most likely going to have some sort of institutional license for Mendeley since you are probably working for a university or research institution. Remember to check with your institution before you pay yourself.
The First Step: Ingesting Sources
At its core, Mendeley Desktop is a reference management tool. You can’t do anything with the program if you don’t have a database of sources. Since it can be tedious to manually enter the details of every source, Mendeley Desktop has some neat tools to help speed up the process.
Most academic articles come in the form of a PDF document. You can designate specific folders on your hard drive to be watched by Mendeley Desktop. Any PDFs that you copy into this folder will automatically be ingested into your database.
Mendeley will attempt to extract the right information from the document automatically, even if each PDF has a very different format. You do need to make sure that the information is correct, but this will save a lot of time in the long run.
If you do need to enter a source manually, you can sometimes get away with just typing in the title and then marking the source as “needing review”. Mendeley will then check the title against Google Scholar, and automatically fill in all the information if it finds a match.
You should also make sure to create custom lists for your sources. When you first enter new research sources in Mendeley it all goes into an unsorted pile. That’s not a great way to leave things if you’re working on multiple papers or projects.
Annotations & Notes
After you’ve loaded a new research paper into your Mendeley database, you can highlight important pieces of text and leave notes for yourself and for team members.
This is a critical feature for anyone doing academic research. As you do your research, hundreds of sources can pile up. It’s important to highlight all the parts relevant to your own paper and keep an organized track of your thoughts at the time, while reading the research of others.
The Best Part of Mendeley Desktop Is Automated Citation
Ask anyone who’s had to do academic writing, and they’ll tell you one of the most tedious parts of this writing is having to do citations and bibliographies at the end of the piece. One of the best things about Mendeley Desktop is the fact that you can automate almost all of your citation chores.
All you have to do is be diligent about collecting all of your research sources in your Mendeley database. Then when you’re writing your paper, you can use the plugins from Mendeley Desktop in your word processor to insert citations as you go.
The real magic comes when you’re done and have to put together your list of sources or bibliography. If you put all the citations into your piece as you went along, you only have to click a single button to automatically generate your entire list of sources in the correct academic citation format.
This is not that big a deal with shorter papers, but if we’re talking a full thesis or a long research paper with hundreds of sources this feels like the best feature ever created.
Mendeley Is Great For Teams
Mendeley Desktop is perfect for students who are working on research projects independently as well as academics who write and publish alone. However, these days the trend is overwhelmingly towards co-publishing with other academics. It’s “publish or perish” after all.
Mendeley has some excellent collaboration tools that allow people to collectively collect literature, share annotations and otherwise share the load of research. Not only does this mean that you’ll get the work done more quickly, it also means that you can learn from other people in the team who are more experienced researchers than you.
Mendeley Can Help You Find Important Papers
No matter which academic discipline you practice, it’s important to always stay up-to-date with the latest research. Mendeley is an incredibly powerful tool for finding new papers that you should be reading. The feature is called Mendeley Suggest and uses your personal profile along with a system that monitors which papers are being read and cited the most, to make suggestions to you when it comes to your reading list.
You’ll see articles that are having a significant impact in your field that you probably should read. This is a huge leap ahead over the old style of doing a literature review. Of course, you shouldn’t rely on something like Mendeley Suggest by itself.
The Most Essential Research Tool In Your Arsenal
There’s a reason academic publishing giant Elsevier bought Mendeley and why it’s been so popular over the years. This piece of software takes a lot of the tedious sting out of research and academic writing. Not only will this make you a more productive academic, it will also make you more motivated to actually write!
Knowing that the tedious parts of the job are automated or much faster to do means you can have a sense of excitement about your research writing instead of a sense of dread. That’s far more than half the battle.
