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 February 20, 2019, p.m. Sala Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana 
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2. Introduction to Zotero (1-4) Advanced Course (5-7)
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Introduction to Zotero (1-4) Advanced Course (5-7)
Today: Introduction to Zotero 1: What is Zotero? 2: Installing Zotero 3: Zotero Syncing 4: Getting Stuff into Zotero 5: ZoteroBib
Advanced Zotero Course 6 March : Organizing Knowledge 7: Bibliographical Records 8: Zotero APPs 9: Questions & Answers
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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.5.0.56 (October 2018) http://www.zotero.org/
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Zotero v (October 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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6. Introduction to ZOTERO
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Documentation
Zotero Documentation and quick start guide
Zotero5 available video tutorials
Zotero’s Forums
Zotero’s FAQ
Zotero blog
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
In Instagram #zotero
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7. What you can do with Zotero?
Browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to help you save items with one click
Automatic downloading of PDFs and webpage snapshots,
Word processor plugins to help you quickly insert citations and automatically generate a bibliography from the citations in your document, with support for subsequent citations, given name disambiguation, ordered numeric styles, and other advanced features;
Organization and tagging;
Note-taking;
Advanced sorting and searching;
Group libraries for easy collaboration and sharing;
Automatic syncing across your devices;
Web access to your data, notes, and files;

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Chapter 2 Installing Zotero
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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 7) Do verify where you want Zotero to be installed on you computer!
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Installing Zotero & browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox & Opera
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11. Zotero Browser’s Connectors
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Copying and Pasting the EUI Library Link Resolver for accessing contents at the EUI
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Chapter 3:
Zotero Syncing & EUI-RRCHNM agreement
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14. EUI members have unlimited institutional storage in the cloud!
RRCHNM – Fairfax, Virginia, USA –
Access to the Zotero Institutional Storage from the EUI is restricted to current members of the EUI (Faculty, Fellows, Researchers and Staff [*]), for the purposes of research, teaching, and private study.
Please Note: once your affilitation to the EUI ceases, your Zotero storage quota will revert to the free 300 MB plan without prior notice. No data will be lost but in case you exceed 300 MB you will be prompted by Zotero to purchase a storage plan accordingly (check the FAQ for further details).
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15. Register for a Zotero EUI institutional account
First step in setting up Zotero Institutional Storage is to register a personal Zotero Account at 
Fill in the online form making sure you use your EUI  address in the field. As username you can use any meaningful name (i.e. your EUI username)
Shortly you will receive an (sender Zotero subject Welcome to Zotero) containing a validation link to be used to activate your newly created account.
As EUI user you now have unlimited space in the cloud at GMU and you can sync your library within all your devices, create and/or participate in groups, or post to the support forums, etc..
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16. Register to the Zotero Syncing Server
You have to successfully validate your account in Zotero Preferences Settings SYNC because Zotero supports online syncing
Entering username and password you will be allowed to access your Zotero library from all your devices
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17. File Syncing in Zotero: no limit at EUI
Data syncing syncs library items, but doesn't sync attached files (PDFs, audio and video files, images, etc.). To sync these files, you can set up file syncing to accompany data syncing, using either Zotero File Storage or WebDAV.
Zotero File Storage is the recommended file sync option including syncing of files in group libraries, web-based access to PDFs and other attachments, easier setup, guaranteed compatibility, and improved upload performance for certain files. Each Zotero user is given unlimited syncing space at the EUI for attached
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18. Zotero People & Zotero EUI Community
Create your own Zotero profile to access the EUI-RRCHNM storage agreement and help other researchers discover you and your work.
Discover researchers working on similar projects.
Browse through other researchers’ CVs and shared libraries.
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Chapter 4 Getting Stuff Into Zotero
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20. 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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21. Getting Stuff Into Zotero
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Getting Stuff Into Zotero
1. Look at the Location Bar Icons: when you visit library websites, journal databases, blogs, and many other Zotero enabled sites you can click the icons that appear in the location bar to grab citation information and full contents of files.
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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22. 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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23. 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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24. Search my Zotero Library (& save advanced recurrent search)
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25. Managing my Zotero data library
Info: formats of data
Notes + Tags and subject keywords
Related items – you can link a document to others in your Library
In which folder are my data/documents? Select a document in
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26. Downloading or Adding PDF documents
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Useful Suggestions
Create library folders according to your thesis chapters, paragraphs etc. ?
Create folders linked to paragraphs in essays, because of a lesson, a blog post, etc..
Whenever your drag and drop a file from a folder to another one you do a copy-paste
Clean duplicates eventually or create duplicates because needed in another chapter
Holding ALT in MAC or CTRL in Zotero you will know where is a document in your Library
Insert ALL your PDF within your Zotero Library
Remember that you will keep an unlimited space in Fairfax RRCHNM only thanks to
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Chapter 5 ZoteroBib
Instant bibliographies without creating a Zotero account
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29. Need to create a quick bibliography? Try ZoteroBib
ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. …. And the bibliography stays in the browser If you need to reuse sources across multiple projects or build a shared research library, we recommend using Zotero instead. (Zoterobib is available for Mac, Windows, & Linux)
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30. My ZoteroBib Bibliography ready to be exported
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31. Should I use ZoteroBib or Zotero ? See FAQ
If you need to create a one-off bibliography for a paper, ZoteroBib is the quickest and easiest way to do it.
If you’re working on a longer-term project, want to build up a research library to use across multiple projects, or need to collaborate with others, Zotero offers many more features
ZoteroBib supports over 9,000 CSL styles, including popular styles such as APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian. These are the same styles used in Zotero. Citations are generated by the same sophisticated citation engine used in Zotero.
Your bibliography is stored in your browser’s local storage by default. You can close the page and return to it later, and your bibliography will still be there — no need to worry about saving your data or logging in.
Bibliographies are stored in your local browser storage until you delete them or clear your browser’s cache.