Mendeley offers free basic and premium plans for their web and desktop referemce management program. Mendeley promotes collaboration by enabling the sharing research papers, discovering research data and social networking. More information available here.
1. Create an account using Mendeley's web application (click image):
2. Download Mendeley's Desktop application (click image)**:
**Users have reported issues downloading with Internet Explorer. We suggest using Chrome to download the executable file.
3. In the desktop application, install MS Word Plugin:
4. Install the Web Importer (click image):
Mendeley has produced several video tutorials to support user needs. The complete suite of videos is available here.
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