Using Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]

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• Using Zotero zoh-TAIR-oh
• to manage Web Contents

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Installing Zotero
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Zotero's Three Panes
Item Details pane
Collections pane
Collection Items pane
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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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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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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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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
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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, 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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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
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Using the Word Plug-In

• Download from http//www.zotero.org/support/word_p
  rocessor_plugin_installation
• Adds a new toolbar (or Add-In group) to Word

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Using the Word Plug-In

• Put your cursor where you want the in-text
  citation
• Click the Add a Citation button