Zotero Evangelism for Zotero Evangelism for Grad StudentsGrad Students

Rebecca Onion 9.16.11

What Is It? What Is It?

“A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.”

CHNM But what does it look like? Why’s it better than Endnote? Or is it? http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/zote

ro-vs-endnote/33157

Basic Functions Basic Functions

Tutorials I made for my undergrads, covering basic input and output:

Building Your Library: http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/building-your-zotero-library/

Citations in Word: http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/adding-zotero-citations-in-word/

Citations in OpenOffice: http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/adding-zotero-citations-in-openoffice/

Advantages of Zotero for planning Advantages of Zotero for planning future research future research

Use an ever-evolving system of folders to contain and correlate leads

Put items in more than one folderOrganize items for future revisions SEARCHABLE Be sure to back up! Pay CHNM, or use

www.carbonite.com

Inputting Archival Materials Inputting Archival Materials

Jpegs go in folder on desktop – make sure to include metadata in some way, either in the photo or in your folder name

At your leisure, open up jpegs in Preview, make sure they’re small enough (do a save-as and decrease quality), turn into PDFs (http://www.pdfsam.org/ is free) and combine

Create Zotero record, input your own metadata, and attach PDF

Rename PDF using record metadata

Entertain Yourself Entertain Yourself

Digital Hoarding (am I a Collyer Digital Hoarding (am I a Collyer brother?)brother?)

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