Using Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] to manage Web Contents

Installing Zotero

Zotero's Three Panes

Collections pane

Collection Items pane

Item Details pane

Chapter 1

What is Zotero ? What is Zotero ? [zoh-TAIR-oh][zoh-TAIR-oh]

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What is Zotero ?

• Zotero is a free software is a free software extension integrated to integrated to Mozilla/Firefox 7 ((Zotero 3 “Zotero 3 “Everywhere” is a beta v.)” is a beta v.)

• Zotero lives inside the web browser itself• Zotero is supported in many languages• Zotero is Open Source and serves a

worldwide user’s community• Zotero is ffreely available under the reely available under the

Educational Community License • The last Zotero version for Windows/MAC OS/Linux (October

2011) is zotero 2.1 • Zotero Standalone Version 3.0b2 is a standalone beta version

compatible with Firefox/Chrome/Safari

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Collect, Manage, Cite & Share Digital Information• With Zotero you capture and store PDFs, images, links, whole

web pages, videos, bibliographical citations, etc.• You add notes and comments to documents • You add tags/keywords • You search within your personal library collection• You tag PDF documents and search within PDFs when

converted to text• You capture bibliographical citations using a variety of

import/export styles (more than 1.100)• You cite-when-you-write within Word and Open Office• You work in many languages• You integrate Zotero contents in Blogs and Wiki’s• You save and annotate multi-media materials• You access your Zotero library from any computer

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Chapter 2:

Capturing the Web (primary and secondary sources) with

Zotero

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Capturing the web with Zotero

• The web is instable by definition: zotero captures what you need to come back to.

• Web sources are to be contextualized: easy with zotero tags, notes, meta-data’s and folders

• Using the web as primary source obliges to find web sites not anymore available online and old sites versions. Zotero keeps it for you.

• Zotero offers you a correct way to cite and re-use web contents

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Managing Zotero

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Video Tutorial:

Geting Stuff Into Zotero

Capturing e-journals contents

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Capturing PDF contents

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Elsevier Scirus

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Google Scholar

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Opening the Zotero Window

EBSCO Host: Historical Abstract and International Bibliography of

the Social Sciences (IBSS)

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Google Book Search

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Capturing Images

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Chapter 3:

Bibliographies in Zotero

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Bibliographies and Citations

• Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in MLA, Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in MLA, APA, Chicago styles, (APA, Chicago styles, (more than 1.100 styles at the moment))

• Zotero allows you to create Zotero allows you to create your own citation style• You are able to insert and You are able to insert and generate bibliographies citing citing

when you write when you write with Word or Open Office.with Word or Open Office.• You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote and You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote and

from from EndNote to Zotero

Citing and creating bibliographies: Zotero with Word and Open Office

• Using Rich Text Format (RTF) documents you may cite directly documents you may cite directly into your documentinto your document

• You can use Drag & Drop inside You can use Drag & Drop inside open documentopen document

• Or you need to install a Zotero-for-Word plug-in

• The plug-in is also available for Mac and Open Office

• With a RTF Scan and/or the Plug-in, you’ll be able to insert, modify, complete citations and create bibliographies within word and OO. (See Tutorial)

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Importing Citations to Zotero

• List of compatible sites • EUI Library Traditional Opac Biblio.eui.eu• Google Scholar• Google Books• OCLC – Worldcat/Firstsearch• Historical Abstract

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Downloading citations from many resources• ABI/INFORM Global• ABC/CLIO, Historical Abstract• Factiva• Google Scholar• IEEE Xplore• JSTOR• ScienceDirect• ABC-CLIO • Amazon.com• ARTFL Encyclopédie• BBC News• Blackwell Synergy• British Library Integrated Catalogue • Copac Acad. & National Library Cat. • EBSCOhost• ERIC: Education. Res. Inf. Center • Factiv• Google Books• Google Scholar

• HeinOnline• History Cooperative • JSTOR tested 05 October • LexisNexis • Nation. Bur. of Economic Res. (WP)• New York Review of Books • OCLC WorldCat/FirstSearch• Ovid• Project Muse • ProQuest Research Library• Revues.org• Scholarly resources with export in RIS

format, such as Scirus, • ScienceDirect• Scitation• SpringerLink• Système univ. de docum. (SUDOC) • The Economist

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Chapter 4:

Zotero complementary APs

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Zotero Syncing

• Zotero 2.0 and later support online syncing, allowing you to access your Zotero library on any computer with internet access.

• Zotero syncing has two parts: data syncing and file syncing.

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Zotero File Storage

• Zotero File Storage is a cloud-based syncing and storage solution for PDFs, images, web snapshots, and any other files attached to your Zotero libraries.

• Zotero File Storage synchronizes the files in your personal Zotero library to all your computers, allows you to share the files in your group libraries, and makes files available through the zotero.org website.

• Each Zotero user is given 100 MB of free Zotero File Storage, with larger storage plans available for purchase.

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Zotero People and Zotero Community

• Discover researchers working on similar projects.

• Browse through other researchers’ CVs and shared libraries.

• Create your own Zotero profile to help other researchers discover you and your work.

• Sign up now

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Writing & citing

Using the Word Plug-In

• Download from http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation

• Adds a new toolbar (or Add-In group) to Word

Using the Word Plug-In

• Put your cursor where you want the in-text citation

• Click the Add a Citation button