Using Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]

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• Using Zotero zoh-TAIR-oh
• to manage Web Contents
• Atelier Multimédia, 19th October 2011
• Serge Noiret
• (History Information Specialist, EUI)

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Outline of the Course

• Chapter 1 What is zoh-TAIR-oh ?
• Chapter 2 Capturing the Web
• Chapter 3 Bibliographies in Zotero
• Chapter 4 Zotero complementary APs

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Chapter 1 What is Zotero ? zoh-TAIR-oh
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What is Zotero ?

• Zotero is a free software extension integrated to
  Mozilla/Firefox 7 (Zotero 3 Everywhere 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
  users community
• Zotero is freely 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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Roy Rozensweig Center for History and the New
media, (CHNM) at George Mason University,
Virginia, USA
S.Noiret Using Zotero to manage web contents
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Zotero won the best Computer Instructional
Software Award in 2007 and 2008.
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Zotero, a management software for Digital
Humanists and Social Scientists

• Using Zotero youll create your own Research
  Library, a personal digital laboratory.
• You interact between your personal computer and
  the web through the browser.
• Doing so you capture full web pages, full texts
  and PDF and single bibliographical records
• The web offers
• digital literature (e-books, e-journals, etc.).
• (born) digital primary sources and meta-sources
• Web site information and multi-media contents
• Zotero is a research tool which capture and
  manage all of these contents

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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 Wikis
• You save and annotate multi-media materials
• You access your Zotero library from any computer

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Zotero documentation

• Zotero Documentation
• Zotero Screencast tutorials Zotero Tour
• Many Zotero Tutorials in YouTube
• Zoteros Forum
• Zoteros FAQ
• Getting Involved with Zotero

• Follow Zotero on Twitter
• Find Zotero on Facebook
• Zotero blog
• Zotero Francophone
• Sean Takats Zotero and the Future of Digital
  History, Bern - 11.09.2009

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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-datas 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
Video Tutorial Geting Stuff Into Zotero
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Getting Stuff Into Zotero

• 1.Location Bar Icons.
• 2. Create New Item from Current Page button
• 3. Adding PDFs and Retrieving Metadatas
• 4. Look up Items by Unique Identifier, ISBN, DOI,
  etc.
• 5. Manually Adding Items
• 6. Importing Records from Other Tools like Endnote

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Organizing your Zotero Library

• Getting Started (global tour)
• Finding items in our Zotero library
• Managing the library collections and tags
• Highlighting and annotating
• Manually Creating items in the collection
• Adding files and linking to files
• Creating Notes and generate reports
• Using the Timeline for collections
• Retrieving PDF meta-datas

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From archive.org to Zotero
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Capturing e-journals contents
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EHPS - European History Primary Sources
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Capturing Images
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Capturing PDF contents
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Adding PDF to Zotero

• Saving a PDF into Zotero
• Zotero can attempt to identify PDFs you have
  saved to your computer.
• Just drag them into the middle pane
• Right click with your mouse on them and select
  Retrieve Metadata for PDF.
• If Zotero can find the PDF in Google Scholar, it
  creates a new library item for the paper,
  downloads the citation information and attaches
  the original PDF to the new item.

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Annotating web pages in Zotero

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Storing Copies of Files into Zotero

• Use the Store Copy of File Function

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Creating Reports from documentation
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Chapter 3 Bibliographies in Zotero
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Bibliographies and Citations

• Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in
  MLA, APA, Chicago styles, (more than 1.100 styles
  at the moment)
• Zotero allows you to create your own citation
  style
• You are able to insert and generate
  bibliographies citing when you write with Word or
  Open Office.
• You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote
  and from EndNote to Zotero

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Citing and creating bibliographies Zotero with
Word and Open Office

• Using Rich Text Format (RTF) documents you may
  cite directly into your document
• You can use Drag Drop inside open 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, youll 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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EUI Library Traditional CatalogueAdvanced
Search
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OCLC - Worldcat
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Elsevier Scirus
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EBSCO Host Historical Abstract and
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
(IBSS)
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Google Scholar
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Google Book Search
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Google Doc(ument)s

• You can insert elements from the Zotero Library
  to Google Docs Blogs using drag and drop
• You may download Google docs elements into your
  Zotero Library
• Google Products and Zotero tutorial

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Zotero Exporting Formats

• Zotero RDF
• MODS (From Library of Congress)
• Refer/BibIX and BibTex (Comparison of Reference
  Management softwares)
• RIS (Standardized tag format developed by
  Research Information Systems, Incorporated (the
  format name refers to the company) to enable
  citation programs to exchange data).
• Unqualified Dublin Core RDS
• Wikipedia Citation Templates

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Using EUI Library WebBridge with Zotero

• You must configure the OpenURL preferences in
  Zotero first.
• Zotero's Locate Button ("Library Lookup") will
  link directly to EUI WebBridge which means
  accessing contents directly through EUI library
  subscriptions to full contents.
• EUi Library documentation available here
• You must copy/paste the EUI resolver version 0.1
  in Zotero advanced/preferences/OpenURL
  http//biblio.eui.eu4550/resserv?rfr_idinfosid/
  Zotero

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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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Plug-in for Zotero

• Delicious
• WordPress
• Microsoft Word
• Open Office
• PDF to Text (Xpdf)
• BibUp, University of Fribourg (CH) Allows you to
  create bibliographic references by scanning books
  barcodes and extracts of text. The references,
  including the OCRed text, can be viewed on a web
  page and collected using the Zotero plugin for
  Firefox

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PDF Full text indexing

• PDF should NOT be images
• Zotero index the whole text embedded inside a PDF
  document
• Zotero may grab your PDF meta-datas
• Using the Open Source software pdftotext, a
  plug-in to convert all texts in Zoteros library
  and Pdfinfo
• Xpdf project (OS cross-platform PDF viewer)

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Zotero and Flock browser

• Zotero with the social browser Flock tutorial
• Possible to capture images and pictures in Flock
  and export them directly using Zotero to Flickr
• Capturing web pages with Zotero like in Firefox
• Integration of Zotero elements in Flocks blog

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Zotero Wikipedia

• Zotero users can automatically grab references
  mentioned in Wikipedia using the popular online
  encyclopedias native citation format.
• Zotero includes Wikipedia Citation Templates as a
  new export format to add references into
  Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia citation templates for books and
  articles embed COinS tags in each bibliographic
  entry (see, for example, the Wikipedia article
  for Amphibian)
• Users may export Zotero references into
  Wikipedia, they can also import Wikipedia
  references into Zotero.