So, you might thought that multi-display environment is common in scientific community - but no, you're wrong: apparently 99% of Mendeley users have single screen and find this show&hide game amusing. You say: ok, let's see what I was about to cite: you open Mendeley from the task bar and then: HA! the popup window is gone! Then you click "insert citation" again - and guess what: it does the same thing, with the windows again! It was all fine before but now (LibreOffice plugin): you click "insert citation" it minimizes Mendeley Desktop (!?! yes, you are at LibreOffice but for no apparent reason, it minimizes the Mendeley Desktop even it is on the second screen), opens popup window within the LibreOffice where you have to know exactly what you want to cite - but, your cursor is not refocused to the input field (HA!). Then I noticed few bugs that blown my mind. So the cloud argument: hm, proved not to be to reliable. I've just created new username after realizing there is no way to reuse my old account (tried to delete all via web interface but no luck).my online cloud/repository was crashing desktop software immediately after start (after connection is made).I had 2 years break from my sci efforts and after that period I've installed fresh new version of the desktop software and found few things: ![]() I've got impression that Mendeley is pushing energy into something that is not the desktop software for sure. The feedback forum has now become pretty much unusable - there are plenty of important things in there that have been "planned" or awaiting assessment for 2 or 3 years. Mendeley does have its evangelists, and it seems to have been very slick at cultivating its fanbase - more resources seem to have been spent there than on the software. This may have stopped now - I don't use Mendeley so much any more, because of this and other problems. The interface is klutzy, though I've yet to find a reference manager that had an interface I did like.Įarlier versions of Mendeley did occasionally corrupt the metadata, doing things like swapping round the lead and second author - unbelievably frustrating. Often, its guesses seem utterly bonkers, like it's just grabbed a few general words from the title, and gone off to find the closest match for those, in some subject that's completely alien to me. The auto-grab of references from the web is patchy, and you may find you're often correcting it. ![]() I've also found the technical support to be very slow, and often unsatisfactory. The one batch search & replace it does do very well is that when you get two versions of an author's name, you can drag one name onto the other, and all the papers will get updated accordingly. There is some batch update, in that you can select several papers, and add the same metadata to all in one go: but that's not the same as a batch search & replace. The search is pretty decent, though I often find I use Acrobat search instead - its word-stemming seems better.īatch replacement is very weak - the only way to do it is to go into the database yourself and tweak it. Citation Plugin - insert references and bibliographies into your written document install from within Mendeley Desktop to activate in Microsoft or Libre Office.įor assistance downloading and installing Mendeley on your device, the Mendeley Support Centre provides details of supported browsers and operating systems. Alternatively, ANU staff and students can contact ANU Library Digital Literacy Training for troubleshooting and guidance.Yes, Mendeley does offer export - BibTex, RIS, and EndNote XML.Mendeley Cite - insert references and bibliographies into your Word document works without having Mendeley Desktop open or even installed. ![]()
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