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Mendeley - Vietnam Guide

Mendeley is a free academic reference manager tool. This start guide will provide you with information on how to create your account, build up your Mendeley Library, and use the MS Word plugin to insert citations and references.

Access Mendeley

Mendeley is currently available for free in different versions:

  1. Mendeley Reference Manager: latest application which you can download and install it to your device.
  2. Mendeley Desktop: former application and no further software updates will be released. Our Liaison Librarians still support users of Mendeley Desktop. 
  3. Mendeley Web: available on the web, and you can access it using your internet browser. 

Please note:

  • All of the citations you added to Mendeley will be stored online. You can synchronized your Mendeley library from across platforms and devices. 
  • When accessing Mendeley with RMIT account, you have 100GB of storage as part of Mendeley Institutional Edition package. To check how much storage you have left, sign in to your Mendeley account, select your Mendeley account name (at the top right corner), choose 'Settings'. Then select 'Subscription' from the options (on the left side menu, as screenshot below). 

Screenshot of Mendeley Subscription page with information of Mendeley Institutional Edition package covering 100GB of storage.