Zotero introduction by Erik Schwägermann

Introduction to ZoteroIntroduction to Zotero

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Erik Schwägermann

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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http://www.zotero.org/

What is Zotero?

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It is a Firefox application!Made by George Mason University Reference Management Software

Collect literature and/or referencesOrganize your literatureMake foot notes and bibliografies

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Collection in folders The saved

entries

The actual entry

See 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!


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


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.


Control Zotero.

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


Synchronization between the Zotero library with Zotero web!


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.

Resolver!

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Used to locate material.

http://sfx.kb.dk.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/sfx_local/




Adding entries to Zotero!


Next to the web adress URL zotero makes an icon


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!


Examples of three icons:

A book:

An article:

Examples of pages Zotero reads:


PubMed tested 24 October 2011Amazon.com tested 24 October 2011arXiv.org tested 24 October 2011, extracts PDF’s from siteBBC News tested 24 October 2011 Cambridge University Journals Online tested 19 February 2008Cambridge Scientific Abstracts tested 24 October 2011PubMed tested 24 October 2011WorldCat tested 24 October 2011Energy Citations Database tested 24 October 2011Google Scholar tested 24 October 2011

See more: http://www.zotero.org/translators

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

http://www.amazon.com/

http://arxiv.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/quickSearch

http://www.csa.com/

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



Word and ZoteroWindows

Mac


Choose citation style!


Choose material and write the pages numbers!


The foot note in Word:

Zotero can also generate this bibliography at the end.

Usefull links:• http://www.zotero.org/support/• http://www.worldcat.org • http://bibliotek.dk/


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!


Zotero introduction by Erik Schwägermann

Education

zotero web

zotero help

rex zotero

zotero library

close zotero

web adressurl zotero

preferences control

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