Zotero 5.0 Advanced Session Teacher: Théo Fournier (Zotero Tutor 2017-2018) Theo.fournier@eui.eu Organizer for the EUI Library Serge Noiret (Information Specialist HEC) Serge.noiret@eui.eu
This is … a revolution. Unlimited Storage for Free “For life” Dropbox = Unlimited / 15€ per month Icloud = 2TB / 9.99€ per month “For life” Attached to your EUI email address Zotero = cloud Online synchronization Do not feel limited
Overview of Your Storage on Your Zotero Account Zotero.com > Log In > Storage
Three Academic Functions Organizing your bibliography How to easily find your way through the high volumes of references and materials you gather? Citation Tool Let Zotero make your footnotes and bibliography in your word processor Organization of your work … and mind-set Why using Zotero can facilitate your everyday-work
1 – Organizing Your Bibliography Cf Introduction/“Getting Stuff into Zotero” Make sure your Zotero Desktop and online are synchronised Think of Zotero as a Finder or Documents Library = where all your documents are Collections, sub-collections = classification Organization of your collections Additional tools Tags Advanced research
Double Check Your Synchronization Zotero > Preferences > Sync > Settings Check the green arrow If any doubt, double check in your Zotero account Potential issues: Heavy files (movies) Notes too long
Library
Collections and Sub-collections Nb: when you add a document from your browser, be sure that your Zotero is open in the correct (sub)collection.
Organization of your collections Information of the document Classification of your collection 16/11/2018 Advanced ZOTERO 5.0
Additional Tools – Tags
Additional Tools – Advanced Research
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2 – Citation Tool How to download bibliographical items Make sure your Zotero-connector is activated Add-Edit Citation Add-Edit Bibliography Document Preferences Refresh Unlink Citations
Downloading citations from many databases 16/11/2018 Downloading citations from many databases EUI OPAC and Article+ ABI/INFORM Global America, History & Life Historical Abstract Factiva Google Scholar IEEE Xplore JSTOR ScienceDirect Amazon ARTFL Encyclopédie British Library Integrated Catalogue Copac Acad. & National Library Cat. EBSCOhost ERIC: Education. Res. Inf. Center Google Books HeinOnline Nation. Bur. of Economic Res. (WP) New York Review of Books OCLC WorldCat/FirstSearch Project Muse ProQuest Revues.org Scirus ScienceDirect SpringerLink Système univ. de docum. (SUDOC) The Economist Hypothèse.org Wikipedia Blogger 16/11/2018 Advanced ZOTERO
16/11/2018 EUI Library OPAC 16/11/2018 Advanced ZOTERO
Google Scholar Zotero tutorial for Google Products 16/11/2018 Google Scholar Zotero tutorial for Google Products Zotero and Google Docs/Drive 16/11/2018 Advanced ZOTERO
Zotero-connector on Word Automatically download with Zotero 5.0 Check if activated: zotero > tools > add-ons > extensions
Add-Edit Citation – Style The Citation problem: there is no perfect citation style. -> Check the review you want to apply to -> Download a new style Zotero>Preferences>Cite>Get additional styles
Add-Edit Citation – Features
Multi-Citation
Add-Edit Bibliography Creates a bibliography at the end of your Word doc Bibliography automatically updated with new citations Bibliography depends on the style you choose (ex: APA)
Document Preferences Change your citation style whenever you want Automatic update of your citations and your bibliography Useful if you want to apply to different journals using different styles
Refresh and Unlink Citations What happened? One modification directly on the footnote (”and also” copy-paste) One modification on Zotero (“name”) Refresh -> conflict and two options Yes = Zotero keeps your Word modification and your Zotero one No = Zotero erases your Word modification and keeps the Zotero one What to do to avoid the conflict? Formal modifications (Author, date): Directly on Zotero Substantial modifications: Add/Edit citation Add “see also”, “and”… Multiple citations instead of the copy-paste Italic/Bold in the Editor
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3 – Organization of Your Work and Mind-set Create connections between your documents Organization of your library Smart use of the tags and related Use Zotero as a working space Pdf, Word Documents, Notes Everything is automatically saved on the cloud
Create Connections Between your Documents Divide your library according to: Your project, thesis related / non thesis related Your thesis chapters To what purpose do you want to use the documents Whenever your drag and drop a file, it results in a copy-paste Select a document and hold ALT (mac) or CRTL (PC) to identify in which other folder the document is
Create Connections Between Your Documents – Tags Attach one colour to one basic function of the tag such as “To Read” ”Read” ”To Found”
Create Connections Between your Documents – Related Imagine if you read a document and you extract numerous references The option “Related” is a sort of hyperlink You can use it to recreate in Zotero the reference network found in a document
Use Zotero as a Working Space PDF Add any PDF and modify it without leaving Zotero Notes Create a note and fill it while reading your PDF Word documents Report on your doc ”Section XX” the notes you have written
Use Zotero as a Working Space – PDF
Use Zotero as a Working Space – Notes
Use Zotero as a Working Space – Word
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