ZOTERO

“Research, not re-search.”Laura Schmidli

Presentation Agenda

Zotero Background Origins

Using Zotero Interface How it Works Why Use it?

Conclusions More Info

Origins of Zotero

Digital Humanities scholarship

Firefox plugin Open Source

Zotero’s Interface

How Zotero Works

It lives in your browser

Automatic Import Manual Import Compatibility? Translators? Multiple sources Organizing Searching

Why use Zotero? You can take your citations with you when

you graduate or leave your institution Quick, small and efficient Word processing

programs Screen capture Online community Updated: portability

solutions!

Why Use Zotero in Libraries? Citation

management for librarians, students, faculty and other researchers

Beats the competition

Continues to evolve Larger community =

more support = more sustainable

Disadvantages

Sure, you don’t have to log in to Zotero… But, it is also “less portable.”

Portable Firefox Beta Zotero Sync

Ugly interface with small icons

Tips and Tricks

Add Find-It Link Resolver to have this capability in Zotero

Exporting from RefWorks to Zotero work best in “BibTex” output format

Zotero library can be viewed from IPhone

Summary

Zotero background, How it works

Zotero is the best option among citation management software in academic libraries Free! Great for digital

resources Screen capture Evolution

Zotero Info Online

Code4Lib presentation on Zotero Librarian slideshow on RefWorks and Zotero Blog: I hate Zotero Librarian Blog: Zotero v. RefWorks Chronicle of Higher Education forum about

citation management Blog: Zotero Sync Beta Brandeis Librarian compares RefWorks, End

note and Zotero

Creative Commons Attributions Kk+ from flickr.com Net2photos from

flickr.com Smleon from

flickr.com SuzieJane from

flickr.com Karindalziel from

flickr.comGTD Kitteh!

by Karin Dalziel.