Mendeley – Desktop vs Mendeley Reference Manager

Mendeley – Desktop vs Mendeley Reference Manager

In September 2022 Mendeley - announced that its "Mendeley Desktop" version would no longer be available to download. This had been the version that was around for years and QMed has been teaching the use of this tool for quite some time. The new version - the "Mendeley Reference Manager" was launched more than a year ago. Ever since, both versions were available for downloading. But on September 1, Mendeley removed the option of downloading the older version Normally a new version has lots more features or is better in one more ways. As we analyzed it in QMed, we…
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PubMed & Mendeley – Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai, Sep 29, 2013

PubMed & Mendeley – Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai, Sep 29, 2013

Lotus College of Optometry, located in Juhu, Mumbai is in institution that is special for us. They had included our workshops - PubMed and later Reference Management in their PG curriculum - the Masters of Optometry course, right from the first batch! Every batch has eight students and this time's was an extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable one. In one hour I was able to teach them most of PubMed and in another hour almost all of Mendeley. Of course they will need practice. But, they seemed to soak what I taught and they will have a refresher course soon, so…
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Workshop: Reference Management with Mendeley – Aug 24, 2013 – Event Report

Workshop: Reference Management with Mendeley – Aug 24, 2013 – Event Report

Did you know that you could organize your references neatly in folders, remove duplicate references, set up alerts to specific folders wherein you store your references, generate a bibliography with just one click! This was our first full-fledged workshop on Reference Management and we had 16 registrations. So here is a pre-during-post workshop report for you! Pre- Workshop (@ QMed office) - 7 pm, Friday ( 23rd Aug) We are giving final touches to the presentation. It's been two days we are working on it - creating content, refining the presentation techniques, adding elements that will make the learning and delivery…
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