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How Zotero makes me a better person*
Johannes Jonker
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Who am I?BA/Honours in Socio-Informatics: regular academic
writing and research required. Tech-minded: always looking for better and simpler ways to complete tedious tasks.
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My journey with Zotero
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Me when I did the (manual) referencing for my first essay in first year:
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What I didn’t like about manual referencing:
1. It was a schlep to find and keep track of metadata about sources.
2. It was a schlep to keep track of which sources I used in a document and set up a bibliography according to the right style conventions.
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Three software choices at the time:
• RefWorks: free (👍), but web-based with a horrible interface (👎)
• EndNote: old-school and expensive (👎)
• Zotero: open source, fantastic workflow (👍)
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During undergraduate years, I used Zotero for every essay/research project, writing my essays in Microsoft Word. I built up a library of references, which I could refer to and re-use when writing new essays.
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At postgraduate level, I was expected to start working in LaTeX —> forced me to reconsider my options:
• RefWorks: still web-based (👎)
• EndNote: still expensive (👎)
• Mendeley: good interface + cool mobile app (👍), didn’t find embedded research finder and “Import into Mendeley” bookmarklet effective (👎)
• Zotero: still had a fantastic workflow. Killer feature = integration with Firefox (👍)
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My Zotero workflow
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Collect ➤ Organise ➤ Cite
+Add own notes and annotations
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Collect1. …using “Export citation” links in research
catalogs (incl. directly from Google Scholar search results);
2. …from any resource using the address bar icon;
3. …using “Magic Add” or through metadata extraction from PDF;
4. …by manually entering metadata (😱).
Easily attach PDFs!
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Organise
• Folders, folders, folders!
• Tags for content organisation, but also for status tracking
• Stored searches!
• Quick notes + Send to tablet
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Use• Use in Microsoft Word [I don’t anymore]
• Easily set referencing format
• Easily insert references
• Easily generate a bibliography in the right style
• Use in Sublime Text or other LaTeX editor
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Collect ➤ Organise ➤ Cite
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A Zotero guide:http://johannesjonker.com/2013/08/easy-referencing-
with-zotero/
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How Zotero makes me a better person*
Johannes Jonker
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