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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.

Create Mendeley Account

You'll need your Mendeley account to log in and use the tool.

1. To create an account, go to https://www.mendeley.com/ and select 'Create account' (located at the top right corner, as screenshot below)

Screenshot of the Mendeley homepage, with arrow pointing to the 'Create account' link.

2. On the Welcome page, select 'Sign in via your institution'. Then search for 'rmit' under the 'Organization name or email' option. Select 'Submit and continue' button. When prompted, log in with your RMIT account. 

Screenshot of the Mendeley registration page with highlights to the 'Sign in via your organization' and 'Find your organization' options.

Please note:

If you are on campus, you may be prompted to the 'Access through your organization' page. In this case, select 'Access through your organization' button and log in with your RMIT account (as screenshot below). 

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.