This 3 minute video demonstrates searching in Mendeley Desktop. Please note information in the second half of the video about searching Mendeley online is not current, please see the Search Mendeley Online section of this guide for current screenshots.

Once you have a set of references displayed you can filter the results to further refine your search.

Mendeley allows you to search for references and their attached PDF documents in:

• Your whole Mendeley library
• Individual Mendeley folders
• Your Mendeley groups
• The whole Mendeley database of all users references online

Search your library of references to easily locate specific items.

Search for an author's name, any key word in the reference, or your own tags you have added to the reference.

You can filter search results by author or the custom tags you have added to the item.

On the Mendeley website homepage, there is a search feature, allowing you to search the full Mendeley database, with the option to add any articles you locate to your Mendeley library.

Note that search results show the number of citations each paper has received (as indexed by Scopus database) and the number of 'Readers' on Mendeley, that is, the number of people who have saved the article into their Mendeley library.

Click on an item in your search results to see the options to save it into your Mendeley library.