Zotero introduction

1. Introduction to ZoteroIntroduction to Zotero
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Erik Schwägermann

2. Agenda:
• What is Zotero?
• How does it work!
• www.zotero.org
• Zotero and REX
• Zotero and electronic resources
• Zotero and Word / Open Office
• Help and tutorials for Zotero
• Installing Zotero
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3. What is Zotero?
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It is a Firefox application!
Made by George Mason University
 Reference Management Software
Collect literature and/or references
Organize your literature
Make foot notes and bibliografies

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Collection in folders
The saved entries
The actual entrySee
Tags!
Search
Tags!

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New collection
Your folders
Group folders – share your bibliographies
Action! – see next
slide!

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Preferences – control Zotero!
See slide 13 on.
Link to Zotero help – Opens a new
website! See hjelp menu!
Actions

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Ny entry – make one
manually here!
Zotero has many
different standard
templates!

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New entry – based on the
webpage firefox is on!
Add entry via ISBN, DOI mm.
Add notes – both stand alone and
for an entry (child note)
Attach something!

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Two ways of searching. Search the metadata and the attached files or webpages.
Quick search
Advanced search
Make a new folder based on a search I searched
”hobsbawm” -
cheese

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The last two…!
Synchronize your local bibliography with Zotero’s
server – this way there is always access.
You can also work on more than one pc and still
just keep one bibliography!
Close Zotero.
Zotero is always
active in the
browser in Firefox.
Full screen.

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Control Zotero.
Tick this box if you want to save
the PDF’s!

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Synchronization between the Zotero library with Zotero web!

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By PDF Indexing Zotero can do full text searches in attached pdf files e.g.
articles! This is not installed by default – remember to do it yourself.

16. Resolver!
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•http://sfx.kb.dk.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/sfx_local/
Used to locate
material.

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18. Adding entries to Zotero!
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Next to the web adress
URL zotero makes an icon

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The yellow folder – means that Zotero has read and
understood that the web page has more than one
bibliographic unit
The web adress from last slide!
Click the folder – and
you open this window.
Mark the desired units
to import them!

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Examples of three icons:
A book:
An article:

21. Examples of pages Zotero reads:
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PubMed tested 24 October 2011
Amazon.com tested 24 October 2011
arXiv.org tested 24 October 2011, extracts PDF’s from site
BBC News tested 24 October 2011
Cambridge University Journals Online tested 19 February 2008
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts tested 24 October 2011
PubMed tested 24 October 2011
WorldCat tested 24 October 2011
Energy Citations Database tested 24 October 2011
Google Scholar tested 24 October 2011
See more: http://www.zotero.org/translators

22. Word and Open Office
• To use Zotero’s way of working with Word or
Open Office you need to install a file. More
info on:
– http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation
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Word and Zotero
Windows
Mac

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Choose citation style!

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Choose
material and
write the
pages
numbers!

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The foot note in
Word:
Zotero can also generate this
bibliography at the end.

27. Usefull links:
• http://www.zotero.org/support/
• http://www.worldcat.org
• http://bibliotek.dk/
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28. Installing Zotero.
• First install Firefox – find the newest version by
typing ”firefox” in Google.
• Open the browser Firefox – find the page:
www.zotero.org
• Click here: in the right side
• The programme is now installed and you
areready to use Zotero. Remember to chance
the two things in Preferences. See slide 13 and
15!
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