Using Zotero for Managing Citations (and, optionally, your life)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
“Lightning Talk”
Speaker: Elana Broch, Princeton University
“I’ve come to embrace Zotero as a great bibliographic citation manager. It’s free and works on both Macs and PCs. You can sync across machines, save PDFs of full text, and photos. Its write-and-cite capability is very user friendly.”
Elana Broch offered a demonstration of Zotero and discussed many of the features that make it a usable and worthwhile citation management program for students and information professionals.
Many thanks to Liz Nugent for sharing her notes, below:
Click here to view a PDF of Ms. Broch’s handout
Some additional key points about Zotero:
- At Princeton and other libraries, Zotero talks to the library and databases
- Many people are moving from EndNote to Zotero
- It is easy to transfer data from one citation system to Zotero
- Zotero is open source, and is free
- See costs of institutional storage plans here
- Users can download photos, add notes