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• Using Zotero to manage Web Contents
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• Serge Noiret,
• History Information Specialist, EUI

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Center for History and the New media, George
Mason University Roy Rozensweig, 1950-2007
10/21/2008
S.Noiret Using Zotero to manage web contents
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Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

• Continue interaction between our personal
  computer and the web through the browser.
• It creates potentially a personal digital
  laboratory.
• The web offers digital literature
• The web offers primary sources (or meta-sources)
• The web 2.0 is made of interactive Services
• Remote repositories,
• Reference managers,
• Blogs,
• Discussions lists,
• E-learning/e-teaching softwares
• Social networks
• Zotero is a research tool all about this

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Zotero.org
10/21/2008
S.Noiret Using ZOTERO to manage web contents
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What is Zotero ?

• Zotero is a free software integrated with
  Mozilla/Firefox 3.0 or Mozilla/Flock (for Linux,
  Mac and Windows).
• Zotero is an easy-to-use Firefox extension to
  help you collect, archive, manage, edit, tag,
  annotate and cite your web information.
• Zotero lives right where you do your work inside
  the web browser itself and help you to save, keep
  and organize web information

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With Zotero, you can See it. Save it. Sort it.
Search it. Cite it. Store it

• download citation information
• store PDFs, images, links, and whole web pages
• add notes and comments to documents
• add tag/keywords to your documents and PDF
• search in depth your collections
• use citations within Microsoft Word
• save records and notes in many language
• integrate with blogging software and other tools
• Save and annotate multi-media materials
• Use variety of import/export styles (1.100)

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Zotero documentation

• Zotero Tour and Demo
• Zotero Screencast tutorials
• Zotero Tour in You Tube
• Another Zotero Tutorial
• (Steve Bailey, Univ.Colorado)
• General Zotero Documentation
• Zoteros Discussion forum
• Zoteros FAQ
• Zoteros Blog

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Importing Citations to Zotero

• List of compatible sites
• EUI Library Opac
• Google Scholar
• Google Books
• OCLC Worldcat/Firstsearch
• Historical Abstract

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Zotero with word Citing-when-you-write

• You need to install a Zotero-for-Word plug-in
• The plug-in is also available for Mac and Open
  Office (Linux) users
• You will then be able to insert, modify, complete
  citations and create bibliographies within word.

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Downloading citations from many resources

• ABI/INFORM Global
• ABC/CLIO, Historical Abstract
• The EUI library catalogue (InnoPAC as such)
• Factiva
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• ScienceDirect
• ABC-CLIO
• Amazon.com
• ARTFL Encyclopédie
• BBC News
• Blackwell Synergy
• British Library Integrated Catalogue
• Copac Academic and National Library Catalogue
• EBSCOhost
• ERIC Education Resource Information Center
• Factiva

• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• HeinOnline
• History Cooperative
• JSTOR tested 05 October
• LexisNexis
• National Bureau of Economic Research Working
  Papers
• New York Review of Books
• OCLC WorldCat/FirstSearch
• Ovid
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Research Library
• Many web-based scholarly resources that allow you
  to export in RIS format, such as Scirus,
• ScienceDirect
• Scitation
• SpringerLink
• Système universitaire de documentation (SUDOC)
• The Economist

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EUI Library InnOpac
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Google Scholar
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Google Book Search
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OCLC - Worldcat
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EBSCO Host Historical Abstract and
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
(IBSS)
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Capturing Lexis-Nexis contents
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Bibliographies and Citations

• Zotero can generate complete bibliographies in
  MLA, APA, Chicago styles, (more than 1.100 styles
  at the moment)
• You are able to insert and generate
  bibliographies citing when you write within your
  Word file.
• You may transfer citations from Zotero to EndNote
• And from EndNote to Zotero if you want to use
  Zotero from now on
• Thompson Reuter judicial case against 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
  scientifically easy with zotero tags and notes
• Using the web obliges often to use web sites not
  anymore available online. Zotero keeps it for
  you.
• Zotero offers you a correct way to cite web
  contents for further uses

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Managing web pages with Zotero
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Capturing web pages archive.org
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Capturing JSTOR contents
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Annotating web pages in Zotero
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Vertov media annotating plugin for Zotero
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2008 Zotero syncing developments

• Users can now take advantage of preliminary read
  access to their synced collections from any web
  browser on any computer, including a version
  formatted for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview

• Automatic synchronization of collections among
  multiple computers your PC at work with your Mac
  laptop and your Linux desktop at home.
• Create a zotero profile
• Manage your Firefox profile
• Keep a zipped version of your zotero library
• Download Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview add-on
• Synchronize your Zotero library
• Free automatic backup of your library data on
  Zoteros servers.
• Automatic synchronization of your attachment
  files to a university-provided remote web
  storage.

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Playing with Zotero

• Getting Started (global tour)
• Finding items in our Zotero library
• Managing the library collections and tags
• Highlighting and annotating
• Creating items in the collection manualy
• Creating Notes
• Using the Timeline to visualize your collections