Using Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]
to manage Web Contents
Atelier Multimédia, 19th October 2011
Serge Noiret
(History Information Specialist, EUI)
Outline of the Course
• Chapter 1: What is [zoh-TAIR-oh] ?
• Chapter 2: Capturing the Web
• Chapter 3: Bibliographies in Zotero
• Chapter 4: Zotero complementary APs
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What is Zotero ?
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What is Zotero ?
• Zotero is a free software extension integrated to
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Zotero lives inside the web browser itself
Zotero is supported in many languages
Zotero is Open Source and serves a worldwide user’s
community
Zotero is freely available under the Educational
Community License
The last Zotero version for Windows/MAC OS/Linux
(October 2011) is zotero 2.1
Zotero Standalone Version 3.0b2 is a standalone beta
version compatible with Firefox/Chrome/Safari
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Roy Rozensweig Center for History and the New media,
(CHNM) at George Mason University, Virginia, USA
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Zotero won the best Computer Instructional
Software Award in 2007 and 2008.
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Zotero, a management software for
Digital Humanists and Social Scientists
• Using Zotero you’ll create your own Research Library, a
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“personal digital laboratory”.
You interact between your personal computer and the web
through the browser.
Doing so you capture full web pages, full texts and PDF
and single bibliographical records
The web offers:
– digital literature (e-books, e-journals, etc.).
– (born) digital primary sources and meta-sources
– Web site information and multi-media contents
Zotero is a research tool which capture and manage all of
these contents
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Collect, Manage, Cite & Share Digital Information
• With Zotero you capture and store PDFs, images, links,
whole web pages, videos, bibliographical citations, etc.
• You add notes and comments to documents
• You add tags/keywords
• You search within your personal library collection
• You tag PDF documents and search within PDFs when
converted to text
• You capture bibliographical citations using a variety of
import/export styles (more than 1.100)
• You cite-when-you-write within Word and Open Office
• You work in many languages
• You integrate Zotero contents in Blogs and Wiki’s
• You save and annotate multi-media materials
• You access your Zotero library from any computer
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Zotero documentation
• Zotero Documentation
• Zotero Screencast
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tutorials & Zotero Tour
Many Zotero Tutorials in
YouTube
Zotero’s Forum
Zotero’s FAQ
Getting Involved with
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Follow Zotero on Twitter
Find Zotero on Facebook
Zotero blog
Zotero Francophone
Sean Takats: Zotero and the
Future of Digital History,
Bern - 11.09.2009
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Chapter 2:
Capturing the Web
(primary and secondary sources)
with Zotero
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Capturing the web with Zotero
• The web is instable by definition: zotero captures what you
need to come back to.
• Web sources are to be contextualized: easy with zotero
tags, notes, meta-data’s and folders
• Using the web as primary source obliges to find web sites
not anymore available online and old sites versions. Zotero
keeps it for you.
• Zotero offers you a correct way to cite and re-use web
contents
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Managing Zotero
Video
Tutorial:
Geting Stuff
Into Zotero
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Getting Stuff Into Zotero
1.Location Bar Icons.
2. Create New Item from Current Page button
3. Adding PDFs and Retrieving Metadata’s
4. Look up Items by Unique Identifier, ISBN, DOI, etc.
5. Manually Adding Items
6. Importing Records from Other Tools like Endnote
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Organizing your Zotero Library
• Getting Started (global tour)
• Finding items in our Zotero library
• Managing the library: collections and tags
• Highlighting and annotating
• Manually Creating items in the collection
• Adding files and linking to files
• Creating Notes and generate reports
• Using the Timeline for collections
• Retrieving PDF meta-data’s
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From archive.org to Zotero
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Capturing e-journals contents
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EHPS - European History Primary Sources
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Capturing Images
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Capturing PDF contents
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Adding PDF to Zotero
• Saving a PDF into Zotero
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saved to your computer.
Just drag them into the middle pane
Right click with your mouse on them and select
“Retrieve Metadata for PDF”.
If Zotero can find the PDF in Google Scholar, it
creates a new library item for the paper,
downloads the citation information and
attaches the original PDF to the new item.
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Annotating web pages in Zotero
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Storing Copies of Files into Zotero
Use the “Store Copy
of File” Function
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Creating Reports from documentation
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Chapter 3:
Bibliographies in Zotero
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Bibliographies and Citations
• Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in MLA,
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APA, Chicago styles, (more than 1.100 styles at the
moment)
Zotero allows you to create your own citation style
You are able to insert and generate bibliographies
citing when you write with Word or Open Office.
You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote
and from EndNote to Zotero
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Citing and creating bibliographies:
Zotero with Word and Open Office
• Using Rich Text Format (RTF)
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documents you may cite
directly into your document
You can use Drag & Drop
inside open document
Or you need to install a
Zotero-for-Word plug-in
The plug-in is also available for
Mac and Open Office
With a RTF Scan and/or the
Plug-in, you’ll be able to insert,
modify, complete citations and
create bibliographies within
word and OO. (See Tutorial)
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Importing Citations to Zotero
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List of compatible sites
EUI Library Traditional Opac Biblio.eui.eu
Google Scholar
Google Books
OCLC – Worldcat/Firstsearch
Historical Abstract
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Downloading citations from many resources
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ABI/INFORM Global
ABC/CLIO, Historical Abstract
Factiva
Google Scholar
IEEE Xplore
JSTOR
ScienceDirect
ABC-CLIO
Amazon.com
ARTFL Encyclopédie
BBC News
Blackwell Synergy
British Library Integrated Catalogue
Copac Acad. & National Library Cat.
EBSCOhost
ERIC: Education. Res. Inf. Center
Factiv
Google Books
Google Scholar
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HeinOnline
History Cooperative
JSTOR tested 05 October
LexisNexis
Nation. Bur. of Economic Res. (WP)
New York Review of Books
OCLC WorldCat/FirstSearch
Ovid
Project Muse
ProQuest Research Library
Revues.org
Scholarly resources with export in
RIS format, such as Scirus,
ScienceDirect
Scitation
SpringerLink
Système univ. de docum. (SUDOC)
The Economist
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EUI Library Traditional Catalogue
“Advanced Search”
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OCLC - Worldcat
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Elsevier Scirus
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EBSCO Host:
Historical Abstract and International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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Google Scholar
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Google Book Search
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Google Doc(ument)s
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from the Zotero Library to
Google Docs & Blogs
using drag and drop
You may download
Google docs elements
into your Zotero Library
Google Products and
Zotero tutorial
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Zotero Exporting Formats
• Zotero RDF
• MODS (From Library of Congress)
• Refer/BibIX and BibTex (Comparison of Reference
Management software’s)
• RIS (Standardized tag format developed by Research Information
Systems, Incorporated (the format name refers to the company) to enable
citation programs to exchange data).
• Unqualified Dublin Core RDS
• Wikipedia Citation Templates
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Using EUI Library WebBridge with Zotero
• You must configure the OpenURL preferences in Zotero
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Zotero's Locate Button ("Library Lookup") will link
directly to EUI WebBridge which means accessing
contents directly through EUI library subscriptions to full
contents.
EUi Library documentation available here
You must copy/paste the EUI resolver version 0.1 in
Zotero advanced/preferences/OpenURL
http://biblio.eui.eu:4550/resserv?rfr_id=info:sid/Zotero&
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Chapter 4:
Zotero complementary APs
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Zotero Syncing
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allowing you to access
your Zotero library on any
computer with internet
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Zotero syncing has two
parts: data syncing and
file syncing.
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Zotero File Storage
• Zotero File Storage is a cloud-based syncing and storage
solution for PDFs, images, web snapshots, and any
other files attached to your Zotero libraries.
• Zotero File Storage synchronizes the files in your
personal Zotero library to all your computers, allows you
to share the files in your group libraries, and makes files
available through the zotero.org website.
• Each Zotero user is given 100 MB of free Zotero File
Storage, with larger storage plans available for
purchase.
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Zotero People and Zotero Community
• Discover researchers
working on similar
projects.
• Browse through other
researchers’ CVs and
shared libraries.
• Create your own Zotero
profile to help other
researchers discover you
and your work.
• Sign up now
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Plug-in for Zotero
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Delicious
WordPress
Microsoft Word
Open Office
PDF to Text (Xpdf)
BibUp, University of Fribourg (CH)
Allows you to create
bibliographic references by scanning books barcodes and extracts of text.
The references, including the OCRed text, can be viewed on a web page
and collected using the Zotero plugin for Firefox
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PDF Full text indexing
• PDF should NOT be images
• Zotero index the whole text embedded inside a PDF
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Zotero may grab your PDF meta-data’s
Using the Open Source software pdftotext, a plug-in to
convert all texts in Zotero’s library and Pdfinfo
Xpdf project (OS cross-platform PDF viewer)
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Zotero and Flock browser
• Zotero with the “social browser” Flock:
tutorial
• Possible to capture images and pictures in
Flock and export them directly using
Zotero to Flickr
• Capturing web pages with Zotero like in
Firefox
• Integration of Zotero elements in Flock’s
blog
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Zotero & Wikipedia
• Zotero users can automatically grab references
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mentioned in Wikipedia using the popular online
encyclopedia’s native citation format.
Zotero includes Wikipedia Citation Templates as
a new export format to add references into
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia citation templates for books and
articles embed COinS tags in each bibliographic
entry (see, for example, the Wikipedia article for
“Amphibian”)
Users may export Zotero references into
Wikipedia, they can also import Wikipedia
references into Zotero.
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