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Your Users
Why should they use Zotero?
Name: Ryan
Role: High School Junior
Goal: Write 5 page paper
Software Skills:Word, iTunes, Web Browsers
Currently using:
Word and Online Citation Form
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Zotero will allow him to generate a bibliography for his
paper without manually entering his information into the
online citation tool he had previously used.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing books from Amazon and Library Catalog
Drag and drop bibliography
Quick installation
How/where can we reach him
His teachers give guidance on tools
His school librarian gives research guidance on projects
His principle makes school wide software decisions
He visits his local library for help finding sources
High School Research Paper
Name: Mary
Role: College Chemistry Major
Goal: 30 Page Research Paper
Software Skills:Word, iTunes, Web Browsers
Currently using:
Keeps notes in Word docs
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Zotero will help her generate a bibliography, but more
importantly it can help her organize and annotate her
research as she works on her project.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing articles from Web of Science
Integration with Microsoft Word
Organization tools (tags, collections)
Note taking tools
How/where can we reach her
Class presentation from Chemistry Liaison Librarian
College writing center workshops
Professor hands out requirements for research projects
She searches the library website for recommendations
College Chemistry Student Paper
Name: Sandy
Role: Professor of English Lit
Goal: Write 400 page book
Software Skills:Word, Internet Explorer,
Currently using:
3x5 note cards
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Zotero can make it easier to organize the hundreds of
references and notes Sandy needs to use to write her
book.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing items from a range of places
Integration with Microsoft Word
Organization tools (tags, collections)
Note taking tools
How/where can we reach her
Scholarly newsletters
Presentations to faculty
Interaction with liaison librarian
Writing a Book
Name: Janet
Role: History Department Chair
Goal: Track faculty productivity
Software Skills:Word, Firefox, Blogger
Currently using:
Faculty members email her
Word docs once a year.
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Instead of faculty manually writing up their research they
can add their publications to a group library. Janet can
then simply copy the library, or use it’s RSS feed to have
constantly updated reports on Faculty productivity.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Manually adding items
Zotero groups
Generating reports and bibliographies
How/where can we reach her
Campus administrators often set policy for entire
campus
She subscribes to various H-Net groups
She reads the AHA’s Perspectives monthly magazine
Campus Center for Teaching Excellence workshops
Faculty Productivity
Name: Paul
Role: Linguistics Professor
Goal: More collaborative syllabus
Software Skills:Blogs, Wikis, RSS,
Currently using:
Uses closed course management
system to share syllabi with
students
What benefit can Zotero provide?
A Zotero group can provide the perfect opportunity for a
more collaborative syllabus he can add items and allow
students to create collections with research on their own
projects.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Zotero groups
Grabbing resources from JSTOR
Zotero’s reporting features
How/where can we reach him
Reads other professors blogs
Center for Teaching Excellence Workshops
Department brown bags
Faculty newsletter
Collaborative Syllabus
Name: Meredith
Role: Reference Librarian
Goal: Helping researchers
Software Skills:Blogs, Wikis, RSS,
Currently using:
Emails items from library
catalog to students and faculty
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Zotero groups offer an easy way for her to share research
items with classes or individual researchers.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing from library catalog and journal databases
Zotero groups
Organization tools (tags, collections)
How/where can we reach her
Library blogs
Train the trainer workshops
Library list servs
Guiding Research
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
How/where can we reach Them
Potential User:
Name:
Role:
Goal:
Software Skills:
Currently using:
Convincing Decision Makers
10 reasons to adopt Zotero
Users overwhelmingly report that Zotero is easy to
use and intuitive. After watching a five-minute
introductory video on Zotero, many users have
more than enough knowledge to accomplish basic
research tasks.
1) Easy-To-Use Means Easy-To-Support
Say goodbye to expensive escalating licensing
fees. Adopt Zotero and pay nothing. Not only can
you use Zotero for free, but all the documentation
at Zotero.org is yours to reuse and repurpose. The
support community at Zotero.org provides an
experienced responsive community to support the
software and assist you in your efforts.
2) Save Money With Free Open Source Software
Zotero is already recommended by
more than a hundred institutions from around the
world, including MIT, Stanford, and Yale. Zotero’s
track record of success at these leading institutions
underscores its ease of use and elegance as a
research management tool.
3) Hundreds of Institutions Recommend Zotero to Their Faculty and Students
Users overwhelmingly report that Zotero is easy to
use and intuitive. After watching a five-minute
introductory video on Zotero, many users have
more than enough knowledge to accomplish basic
research tasks.
4) A Single Research Management Solution For Every User, Everywhere
Zotero was selected as the best reference
management tool at CiteFest 2008 by
Northwestern University’s Library and Academic
Technologies group. That’s right, better than other,
more costly, software alternatives. Zotero is among
the “Best Free Software” available, as voted by
PC Magazine in both 2007 and 2008. Zotero was
also named Best Instructional Software of 2007
by the Information Technology and Politics Section
of the American Political Science Association.
5) Did We Mention It’s Award Winning?
Zotero’s open and extensible nature means that, beyond
offering a powerful resource to your students at a no cost,
Zotero also offers a potential avenue for your institution to
make lasting contributions to the open-source community.
For example, the University of Michigan’s School of
Information recently won funding from the Institute for
Museum and Library Services to launch a new million-dollar
information literacy game, Bibliobouts, on top of Zotero.
6) An Opportunity For Your Institution to Leave Its Mark
Everything your users do with Zotero is theirs in perpetuity.
As a project developed by scholars with a commitment to
openness and with a focus on the end-user, Zotero makes no
claim of ownership or control over any of your users’ work
with Zotero, and invites users to share and collaborate
without fear of their work being co-opted.
7) Your Users’ Data is Theirs, Now and Forever
Licensed research management platforms may
provide your users with functional services, but,
chances are, your software license ends when your
students graduate. Shouldn’t your users have
access to their research after graduation?
Zotero is free to everyone; that means your
students will always have access to their
collections.
8 ) Give Your Users Something They Can Take With Them
Zotero is committed to data portability and interoperability
through adherence to existing open standards. Software
makers which employ site-licensing fees have a vested
interest in locking users into their own proprietary formats.
Zotero makes it as easy as possible to migrate data to and
from other applications.
9) Adherence to Open Standards Offers Flexibility
Zotero runs in more than thirty languages, so chances are
good that most of the languages spoken on your campus are
available. This sort of linguistic agnosticism means that
Zotero runs smoothly for people all around the world. Any
languages not already supported can easily be added
through the BabelZilla project.
10) Give Your Users The Freedom To Work In Their Native Language
Identifying Local Partners
Building your Zotero Coalition
Name: Doug
Goal: Streamline research
group’s work.
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Zotero can become a center wide platform for sharing and
tracking research work.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Zotero Groups
Zotero Feeds
General Zotero basics
How/where can we reach him
Send him an email
Workshops for administrators
Put something in the campus newsletter
Research Center Director
Name: Mindy
Goals: develop, implement, and
assist instructional approaches
and methods
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Center’s for Teaching Excellence are always looking for
new strategies to improve teaching at their institution.
Zotero can be part of a campus wide initiative.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
General Zotero features
Potential for Zotero groups as Teaching Tool
Report functionality
How/where can we reach her
Send her an email
Invite her to a train the trainer institutional workshop
Instruction Coordinator Center for Teaching
Name: Amile
Goal: Help students become
better researchers and writers
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Writing Center Tutors frequently guide students through
the research and writing process from the very beginning.
Setting students up with a solid system for organizing and
annotating helps them create better final products.
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing books from Amazon and Library Catalog
Integration with Word
Zotero Groups
Organization tools (tags, collections)
Note taking tools
How/where can we reach her
Writing Center Director
Campus newsletter
Writing Center Tutor
Name: Janis
Role: Sociology 101 Professor
Goal: Scaffold 150 students
through a research project
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Getting students to use a research tool like Zotero at the
start of their academic careers can set them up with skills
to take through their entire time at the University. While
teaching methods why not teach tools too?
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Grabbing books from Amazon and Library Catalog
Drag and drop bibliography
Quick installation
How/where can we reach her
Provosts office frequently sets campus wide initiatives
Academic department can make it a part of the course
Blogs about best practices for teaching
Campus newsletter
Send them an email
Lead Faculty Research Intensive Course
Name: David
Goal: Helping students make use
of the library’s digital resources
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Many libraries are already offering instructional sessions
on various research software. These are some of the most
natural Zotero evangelists
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
Compatibility with Library resources
Everything their specific user community needs
How/where can we reach him
Local Zotero workshop
Send them an email
Library Instructional Technologist
Name:
Goal:
What benefit can Zotero provide?
Which of Zotero’s features matter?
How/where can we reach him
Potential Zotero Partner