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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 using save-as, and combine - http://www.pdfsam.org/ is free
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?)
Link to this Slideshow Link to this Slideshow
www.rebeccaonion.com/teaching/zotero-for-grad-students