 Hello friends, in this video I am going to discuss and demonstrate the differences between MENDLY desktop and MENDLY reference manager. The shaded ones are the differences and the non-shaded ones are the similarities. Basically, this MENDLY desktop and MENDLY reference manager are reference managing softwares from LCVR. MENDLY desktop is an older software from LCVR. From 2018 onwards, LCVR rolled out a newer version of software, not the newer version, newer software itself by LCVR called as MENDLY reference manager. Both of them require MENDLY login via LCVR's account. So we need to create an LCVR account and through this login only, we can use this MENDLY desktop and MENDLY reference manager. The word addon which was used in MENDLY desktop was called as word plugin or MENDLY plugin whereas the MENDLY reference manager it is termed as MENDLY site. Microsoft account login was not required for MENDLY desktop whereas it is required for MENDLY reference manager. So definitely there is a Microsoft account login needed for using this MENDLY site. If we are not using this MENDLY site, then there is no need of this Microsoft account login. As LCVR told that soon they will be mobilizing from MENDLY desktop to MENDLY reference manager, the support may not be available or the issues which arises out of this MENDLY desktop cannot be sorted out in future by LCVR whereas the reference manager software, all the issues and support will be presented in future. The web importer which we use for downloading the extraction of metadata from that article is same for both MENDLY desktop and the reference manager. When we look at the downloading interface, it looks like this. So this is the newer software MENDLY reference manager. This is the older software MENDLY desktop. This MENDLY site is the newer word plugin for MENDLY reference manager. Web importer is common for both MENDLY desktop and MENDLY reference manager. Now how does this MENDLY desktop and MENDLY reference manager appears? MENDLY desktop appears as the maroon icon with the same symbol present here and MENDLY site appears as a bright red icon. So I have downloaded both the older version and kept the older version and the newer version in my laptop for demonstration purpose. So when you download this old MENDLY desktop, the icons will appear like this in reference section whereas that MENDLY site appear, option appear when you download and keep this MENDLY reference manager. So this is how the word appears. But how does this MENDLY desktop interface appears is this, this is the older version that is MENDLY desktop. So this is how the MENDLY reference manager appears. So all the references will be looking here. Whatever called as folder in MENDLY desktop will be called as the collections here. How we create groups here? We can also create groups here same way. Then the other options which was available in tools, the check for duplicates was not available. The most important thing between this MENDLY desktop and the MENDLY reference manager is this synchronizing option was manually done with MENDLY desktop. But this synchronizing option was auto synchronized in MENDLY reference manager. And because of this auto synchronizing function, the MENDLY reference manager and MS word works very smoothly. So now I will demonstrate how to use this MENDLY reference software. So I have created one new folder called MENDLY demo. So how to import the references into this reference manager? There are three common ways. One is you can go to the website directly. After successful installation of the web importer, this icon will appear here. After the successful installation of web importer, the icon will appear here. So if you click on by opening this page, article page, it will show, it will identify that particular article and it will ask for which one to use. So I will just select this MENDLY demo and I will just add to this, add to this collection. So what happens with the older version is I need to come back and click on synchronize for that reference to appear here. But when I look at this MENDLY reference manager, it automatically synchronizes and soon it will appear here with the automatic synchronizing. So till it synchronizes and add some more references. So that is I am going to, what I have done here is I have just downloaded this PDF which is an article. So it appears here. So what we can do is we can just drag and paste it here. We can drag and paste it here directly. So this uploading will go on or you can go to this add new files from the click on the files from the computer, then you can click on the same PDF file can be uploaded. So it will be uploaded twice. You can do is you can import library that is bibtex what you can do is so you can go into a particular site there you can see this citation readily downloadable. So you can download this citation. So once it is downloaded, go back to the MENDLY import library, click on this bibtex automatically this bib will appear. So open this, this will be opened. So synchronizing it is getting delayed. Then the other important thing is we can do it the entry manually based on the reference type all these reference types can be used as a references. So based on the reference type, if you feed on the metadata, the reference manager will appear. It will appear. So now we are not using the add entry manually, but we are using this the other methods. So now I am going to do the citation work here. So I have typed something. So this is the one which we have. This is the citation which we have downloaded by bib format and now this is the citation which we have downloaded using the web importer. The PDF version document is not available here. So I am skipping that. So what I am doing here is I am just writing the bibliography and I am going to the more insert bibliography. So continue so automatically our bibliography will appear here. You need not do any sort of modifications in the reference. You need not look at the name comma or any other data regarding that article. So what happens is if you are changing the article, if you change the content like this automatically it will change. If it is not changing then you can click on this update from library that you can do. One more thing is this vanco style. If you do not want vanco style you are preferring the APA style which is the author data type of style. You can click on that automatically based on that style everything will be changed. So basically the difference between the mainly desktop and the mainly reference manager is the interface of working. This is the old mainly desktop how we work which was demonstrated in my previous video and this is how this mainly site works. So how to import the data that is you have to click on this add new that is you can download the direct PDF by clicking on the files from the computer or you can do the add entry manually or you can do the import citation using the Bibtex formats N node format and RIS format. This is how you can work with this new mainly reference manager. You can have collections instead of folders in the previous mainly desktop. You can have groups you can create and collaborate. The synchronize here is auto synchronize need not you need not synchronize. So that is about the mainly reference manager. If you have any doubts you can post it in the comments I can sort it out. So that is the basic function. So you can change any number of citation style. You can select any other style here. You can download any style from internet and you can use that citation style for your article. So that is about mainly reference manager. Thanks for watching this video. If you have liked this video please share to your friends. Thank you very much. Post your comments post your feedback doubts in the comment section. Thank you very much.