Interdisciplinary Humanities 291 (Zanzucchi)

Zotero is a free, open source citation management tool. You can use it to collect, organize, and cite your research. It can also synchronize your data across devices.

ZoteroBib is a new Zotero tool that helps you make quick bibliographies.

With Zotero, you can:

• Create an account to save, organize, cite, & share your sources
• Store PDFs, images, audio files, video files, etc.
• Sort your sources into collections
• Create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, or bibliographies in thousands of citation styles
• Create citations in documents using a plugin
• Sync data across devices
• Share sources with others & work together with a colleague or group

About:

• Online https://www.zotero.org and desktop software
• Open source (project of Corporation for Digital Scholarship and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for HIstory and New Media)
• Create own account (not connected to Shibboleth)
• Free based on storage limits (300 MB, no cost)

Features:

• Tools include "Zotero" connector (capture web pages) and Word Zotero tab to write and cite
• Allows sharing involves setting up a group (public with open membership, public with closed membership, and private membership) with roles: regular, administrator, group owner
• Files can be attached; look for paper clip
• Drag files to desired folder; extracts metadata.
• Blue dots indicate a file is attached.
• Icons used to indicate source type e.g. article vs. book.
• Footnotes/Endnotes entered more easily than some other tools.
• In Word document, citations can be unlinked
• in Word document, can Add/Edit Bibliography at end (may make updating faster)
• 8,000+ styles, style search OR Word > Zotero tab > Document Preferences
• UC-eLinks button or links to CrossRef or Google Scholar are in upper right with right facing arrow button

Limitations:

• Some syncing may be required
• Limited ability to view citations in main window
• Must manually add appropriate title of Bibliography, Reference List etc. to Word document.

• Zotero seems to be the citation manager that works best with screen readers.
• Check out this thread from Zotero for some workarounds.