1. In the web interface of Mendeley Choose the Create account option
2. Indicate your user information: you can use any email address (UPC or not).
3. Once you have created your profile and without leaving Mendeley, click on the button eBIB of your browser and authenticate with the username and password of the intranets UPC. This will allow you to enjoy them advantages of the Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) as a member of the UPC.

To check if you already have it:

1. In the web interface of Mendeley choose the Settings & privacy option from the top menu, next to the profile and photo.
2. Choose Subscription option.
3. In the Packages tab, Mendeley Institutional Edition must appear

Since Mendeley, click the button eBIB and authenticate with the username and password of the intranets UPC. You will enjoy more benefits than if you use the free version:

• Personal library of up to 100 GB
• Storage for research groups up to 100 GB
• Unlimited private groups of up to 100 people each
• Recommendations of articles from your personal library with Mendeley suggest
• From Papers, link to the full text via UPC (Find this paper at)

To keep the benefits of your Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) account active, you need to renew your subscription at least once a year. You will receive an email from Mendeley a few weeks before it expires; just follow these steps:

1. Log in to your account Mendeley through the Web
2. Click the button eBIB of your browser and authenticate with the username and password of the intranets UPC
3. Your account has already been renewed; to check it follow the instructions of How do I know if I have the Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE)?

To create and organize your collection of references and documents:

1. Download Mendeley Desktop from the Downloads button: Reference manager or Download. Can you:

• Drag PDF files to immediately enter the bibliography
• Highlight and add notes to documents while you read them
• share them privately with colleagues

Remember to always synchronize the database before closing the session!

2. From the Mendeley Desktop, go to the Tools menu and download:

• Web importer
  • It is installed in the bookmarks of the browser to import references and documents automatically from databases.
• MS Word Plug In, Free Office
  • Add citations to your text documents.

Check if a database allows you to export to Mendeley.

If you can not import citations with the Web importer, download them to a RIS (Bibliographic Software) or BibTeX file. Drag it to Mendeley Desktop to complete the process.

To generate the references in Catalan and Spanish according to the ISO 690:

1. Download and install the corresponding format for the sorting system used in the bibliography ("name and date" or numerical) in the Mendeley Desktop.
2. To install, copy and activate the following addresses to a new browser page (preferably not Google Chrome, which does not download the file):

System name and date Catalan: mendeley: // csl: //http://csl.mendeley.com/styles/5150531/iso690-author-date-cat

Catalan numerical system: mendeley: // csl: //http://csl.mendeley.com/styles/5150531/iso690-numeric-cat

Name and Spanish name system: mendeley: // csl: //http://csl.mendeley.com/styles/5150531/iso690-author-date-spi

Numerical Spanish system: mendeley: // csl: //http://csl.mendeley.com/styles/5150531/iso690-numeric-spi

To work with LaTeX:  

1. Enter Mendeley Desktop and select Tools> Options> BibTeX.
2. A BibTeX file will be created on your PC with your reference collection.
3. This file will be updated whenever you make changes to Mendeley Desktop.

Check the complete procedure. Also available in video.

If you already haveORCID, you can automatically include posts that have DOI in your Mendeley account by activating the Works> Link Works icon.

They can also be included with a BibTeX (.bib) file by clicking Works> BibTeX Link.

To extract the BibTeX file from Mendeley:  

1. Enter Mendeley Desktop
2. In the My publications folder, select all references
3. Click on the right button and choose the Export option
4. Save the file in BibTex format (* .bib)
5. Enter ORCID
6. Choose Add Works and the Import BibTex option
7. Load the file from the Choose file button

If you have your data and publications in ORCID and you want to export them to your Mendeley profile:

1. Enter Mendeley
2. Within your profile, select Create or Connect your ORCID ID.

You can add quotes to a text you are editing in Atenea.

1. In Mendeley Desktop, open View Citation Style and choose the bibliographic format.
2. Select the references you want to quote and drag them to the text you are writing to Atenea.
    

If you have a database in another manager (RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero ...) you can migrate to Mendeley. Check the help guide to migrate.

Other managers:

• EndNote Web: accessible from Scientific resources (Fecyt) > Web of Science.
• Cite-this-for-me: The free version allows you to capture references and generate citations in different formats.