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Zotero is citation manager that allows you to manage research. It collects and organizes different kinds of sources including scholarly articles, websites, and PDFs. It is an open source tool and available online or for download at https://www.zotero.org/.
It includes plugins to automatically import citations from the web and library resources, and it will automatically build your bibliography for you in the citation style of your choice (APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, and more).
This workshop is for:
This workshop is for a general audience; no previous knowledge of the tool is required. It is applicable to those working with or managing research, including scholarly articles, websites, PDFs, and more.
By the end of this workshop, students will be able to:
Participants will be able to do the following by the end of this workshop:
Download & install Zotero
Use the Browser Connecter to capture research from the web
Use the Word add-in for citation & bibliography creation
Import/add citations to Zotero in a variety of ways
Cite sources and create bibliographies in Word & Google Docs
Attach Notes to citations in Zotero
Introduction (10 minutes)
Activities (60 minutes)
Conclusion (2 minutes)
Watch
Video: Introduction to Zotero by University of McGill (1.5 min)
Do
Exercise: Install Zotero on your computer by visiting https://www.zotero.org/download/ (3 min)
Introduction & Video demonstration (10 minutes)
Presenter slides: bit.ly/3hrjmQr
Activities (60 minutes)
Activity 1 - *** Downloading and installing Zotero, the Browser Connector, and the Word Add-in
Activity 2 - Adding Citations to Zotero
Activity 3 - Adding Citations & Bibliographies in Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice
Activity 4 - Attaching PDFs and other files to your citations
Activity 5 - Using Zotero Groups
*** Alternative option - Zotero Web Account Guided Activity: if you are using a public computer or do not want to download Zotero to your device, you can follow this guided activity to create a web account with Zotero, add 3 sources to your library, and have the option of creating a shared group.
Conclusion (2 minutes)
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