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Once you have completed this sign in process, you should use your Mendeley account email address and password to sign in to Mendeley Desktop rather than your institutional (Shibboleth) credentials. Enter your account password and choose ' Continue and connect'.When prompted, type your existing Mendeley or Elsevier account email address and click ' Continue'.
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Go to and logout if you are signed in.If you already have a Mendeley or Elsevier account, you can connect it to your institutional (Shibboleth) credentials to benefit from MSU's Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) subscription. Increase in number of private groups, from one to unlimitedĪlready have a personal Mendeley account but want to connect to the MSU Institutional account?.It offers greater data storage limits than Zotero in its basic (free) service to back up your articles and access them from anywhere you have internet access. Increase in private group size, from 3 to 25 members Mendeley, now owned by Elsevier, is similar to Zotero in that it is a cloud-based tool for collecting and organizing citations and for connecting with other researchers.Premium paid accounts are available that offer additional storage space, but most users needs are met via the free application. Increase in group storage, from 100 MB to 20 GB What is Mendeley Mendeley is a free web and desktop based citation manager.(See installing the Word plug in).Depending on whether youre working on a Mac or Windows computer the location and look of the Mendeley plugin will be slightly different, though the functionality is the same. Increase in personal library size for each user, from 2 GB to 5 GB Mendeley allows you to import citations and bibliographic information directly in to your Word document.Interested in a FREE Mendeley Institutional account?