1. Introduction to ZOTERO
Zotero Sessions 1.Introduction to ZOTERO: managing documentation in the digital era  Serge Noiret (History Information Specialist, EUI Library) Information Literacy & Research Skills Sessions Wednesday January 31, 2018, p.m. Sala Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana 
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2. Introduction to ZOTERO
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Introduction to Zotero (1-4) Advanced Course (5-7) & Zotero for Lawyers
Today: Introduction to Zotero 1: What is Zotero 2: Installing Zotero 3: Zotero Syncing 4: Getting Stuff into Zotero
Advanced Zotero Course 14 of February : Organizing Knowledge 6: Bibliographical Records 7: APPs for Zotero Advanced Zotero for Lawyers 21 February 2018
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3. Introduction to ZOTERO
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Chapter 1 What is Zotero ? [zoh-TAIR-oh]
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Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways
Zotero won the best Computer Instructional Software Award already in 2007 and 2008 !
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5. Zotero v.5.0.34 (January 2018) http://www.zotero.org/
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Zotero v (January 2018)
Starting July 2017, Zotero became only a standalone software
Zotero 5 is coupled with the browsers Safari, Google Chrome, Opera & Mozilla/Firefox.
Zotero 5 is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux 32 & 64 bits
Zotero is available in many languages
Zotero is Open Source and serves a worldwide user’s community and is freely available through an Educational Community License
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Documentation
Zotero Documentation and quick start guide
Zotero Screencast tutorials & Zotero Tour
Many Zotero Tutorials in YouTube
Zotero’s Forum
Zotero’s FAQ
Getting Involved with Zotero
Zotero at the EUI:
Blog blogs.eui.eu/zotero/
Zotero EUI Library Info Page
 Follow Zotero on Twitter
 Find Zotero on Facebook
 Subscribe to the Zotero blog
Sean Takats: Zotero and the Future of Digital History, Bern
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Zotero Video Tour
Download Video
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Chapter 2 Installing Zotero
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Installing Zotero & browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox & Opera
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10. Introduction to ZOTERO
How to install Zotero 5.0 ?
1) First of all, download the installation file of Zotero for your operating system here. 2) Then, double click on the installation file and follow the wizard installation procedure. 3) Once you have installed Zotero, go to Zotero>Preferences>Sync. 4) Insert an account name and password you created earlier 5) Close the Preferences window and go back to Zotero. 6) After some seconds, Zotero will be synced with the cloud and you will be able to start to work with it
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11. Zotero Browser’s Connectors
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12. Copying and Pasting the EUI Library Link (Open URL)
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Chapter 3:
Zotero Syncing & EUI-RRCHNM agreement
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14. EUI users are provided with unlimited space in the cloud!
RRCHNM – Fairfax, Virginia, USA –
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15. Creating a Zotero EUI account
Registering a user account allows you to sync your library, participate in groups, or post to the support forums and be allowed the extra space that the EUI provided for you in GMU.
See EUI Zotero Blog to know how to create an account with Zotero
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16. Zotero Syncing at the EUI
Zotero 2.0 and later versions, supports online syncing, allowing you to access your Zotero library everywhere.
Zotero syncing has two parts: data syncing and file syncing.
The EUI has made an agreement (2013) with the RRCHNM which has allowed all EUI member’s to store safely in Zotero libraries in Virginia up to 2 Gb of Space
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17. Zotero People & Zotero EUI Community
Discover researchers working on similar projects.
Browse through other researchers’ CVs and shared libraries.
Create your own Zotero profile to access the EUI-RRCHNM storage agreement and help other researchers discover you and your work.
Sign up here
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Chapter 3 Getting Stuff Into Zotero
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19. Zotero 3 Pins working area
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Zotero 3 Pins working area
Click on the image to follow the Video Tutorial:
Geting Stuff Into Zotero
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20. Getting Stuff Into Zotero
1. Location Bar Icons: when you visit library websites, journal databases, and many other Zotero enabled sites you can click the icons that appear in the location bar to grab citation information.
2. Create New Item from Current Web Page button
3. Adding PDFs and Retrieving Metadata’s
4. Looking ad Items by Unique Identifier, ISBN, DOI, etc.
5. Manually Adding Items
6. Importing Records from Other Reference Tools like EndNote, Citavi, Refworks, Mendeley, etc., using compatible import formats like BibTeX, RIS, Refer/BibIX, Unqualified Dublin Core RDF, etc..
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21. Capturing the web with Zotero
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Capturing the web with Zotero
The web is not stable by definition: zotero captures today what you will need to view tomorrow.
Zotero creates new primary sources directly from web pages and sites viewed in your browser.
Web sources need to be contextualized with zotero tags, notes, meta-data’s and folders.
Using the web as a «primary source database» obliges to find web sites not anymore available online and previous versions of websites. Zotero keeps as many versions you need inside your folders.
Zotero offers a correct way to cite and re-use captured web contents
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22. EUI www.iue.it website historical versions: from archive.org to Zotero
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EUI website historical versions: from archive.org to Zotero
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23. HAEU archiving EU websites http://collections.internetmemory.org/haeu
The Institutions of the European Union recognise that their Internet presentations possess a wealth of information under constant change and at risk of disappearance. To preserve this web heritage of immense archival value, the Historical Archives of the European Union, in close cooperation with the EU Inter-institutional Web Preservation Working Group, has launched a web-archiving pilot on EU institutions’ websites…
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