We are pleased to let you know that Stellenbosch University Library and Informatio Service is currently participating in a special Premium programme allowing you to upgrade to Mendeley Premium features with no additional cost. Mendeley is a free reference management tool and is also designed to be an academic networking tool. It is tightly integrated with Elsevier databases Scopus and Science Direct.
The additional features of Mendeley Premium include:
- Additional individual storage space (from 2GB to 5GB)
- Additional group storage space ( from 100MB to 20GB)
- Ability to create unlimited private groups
- Membership for private groups increased to 25
- Additional features such as 'Mendeley Suggest'
We know many of you already use Mendeley and believe the site-wide deployment would further allow you to collaborate with your fellow researchers. Therefore:
- If you already have a Mendeley account with an institutional e-mail address (e.g. student@sun.ac.za) then you don't need to do anything else – you will receive a notification by e-mail on how to upgrade to the Premium version in due course.
- If you have a Mendeley account with a private e-mail address (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail) you will be able to claim your free upgrade at the link to upgrade on the Mendeley guide compiled by the Library. Please use your institutional e-mail address.
For those of you who do not use Mendeley yet, you are welcome to sign up to Mendeley and download Mendeley desktop. Please use your institutional e-mail address when signing up (e.g. student@sun.ac.za), otherwise you will not be able to make use of the free premium features.
The Library will present several workshops to help demonstrate how you can best use Mendeley, the first of which will take place on Thursday 15 May, 14:00-15:30. Please register here if you wish to attend. You are welcome to use the online guide for Mendeley, where you will find instructions on how to install and set up your Mendeley account; how to add documents and citations to Mendeley; how to create in-text references and bibliographies; how to create your online profile and collaborate in groups.
Enquiries: Marié Roux, tel.: 021-8082623
