Zotero/Talk

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This is an outline for a hands-on workshop on Zotero adapted (loosely) from the support documentation organization on Zotero's support page.

Getting stuff into Zotero
- Import from a scholarly search engine, journal, library, etc.
- Create from scratch/website [1]
- Attach/link a file from a website
Organizing documents
- Collections
- Tagging
  - Sorting
- Searching
  - Basic searching
  - Advance searching
  - Saved searching
- Adding notes
Output and exporting (there are many output styles)
- Drag and drop quick copy
- Right-click to create bibliography
- Export subsets
- Generate reports
- Integration with Openoffice/Word
- Generate timelines
Advanced Features
- Searching PDFs (look in preferences to add software which can be done automatically)
- Adding PDFs directly - Drag and drop works, or "store copy of file"
- Duplicate detection
Synching
- Tour of new Zotero website
- Creation of group libraries including the Berkman Zotero Group
New Features
- Zotero Standalone with connectors for Chrome and Safari
- Zotero Plugins