1	Mark of Zotero* Two-click citations Chris Strauber Wofford College Library Presented via OPAL, 1/23/08 *with thanks to Scott McLemee and everyone else who used this pun first.
2	The Agenda a reference librarian’s view of Zotero’s reality and potential three short demonstration videos a list of sources to explore further plenty of time for questions
3	Right, Easy, Clear. Pick One. Citation is hard to do, hard to explain A variety of software to manage citations is available computers are stupid but fast citation rules are complex Leading us to...
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7	Zotero: A Different Approach Zoh-TAIR-oh a citation manager built into a web browser a scholarly tool built by scholar/geeks Center for History and New Media at George Mason University Funded by IMLS and the Mellon Foundation
8	What It Does captures and stores citation information from websites creates references and bibliographies takes notes and saves snapshots does all of this inside the web browser Video 1: The Zotero Interface: http://www.opal-online.org/Video1-ZoteroInterface/Video1-ZoteroInterface.html Time: 5:10 note: sources chosen for entertainment value!
9	What It Does Differently Zotero automates gathering citations Video 2: Zotero Capture http://www.opal-online.org/Video2-ZoteroCapture/Video2-ZoteroCapture.html Time: 4:13
10	What Zotero Recognizes Complete list of sites Library catalogs Innovative, Sirsi-Dynix, Ex Libris Book websites Worldcat, Amazon Subscription databases EBSCO, JSTOR, ScienceDirect, Wiley Interscience, etc.
11	What Zotero Recognizes #2 Research portals Pubmed, ERIC, arXiv.org, Google Scholar, etc. Media websites Economist, NY Times, The Age, etc. Other websites YouTube, Flickr, CiteULike, Epicurious, others
12	Zotero Citation Styles APA, MLA, and Chicago specialized styles for Nature, IEEE, National Library of Medicine, and others Not 100% perfect other styles can be added by users Journal of Nano-Epidemiology
13	Zotero Bibliographies Three short films about creating bibliographies Video 3: Zotero Citations: http://www.opal-online.org/Video3-ZoteroCitation/Video3-ZoteroCitation.html Time: 3:39
14	Extra Features Take notes in any language or alphabet Visualize your references on a timeline Use as an OpenURL resolver Easily import and export your data
15	Infelicities Garbage In, Garbage Out capitalization varies by database Some confusion about multiple contributors author? translator? editor? Website recognition is a moving target
16	What Zotero Doesn’t Do work in any browser but Firefox export in every possible citation style recognize every possible source replace a web-based system like Refworks or Connotea Yet.
17	Why Open-Source Matters Firefox’s open nature is what makes this project possible Anyone interested can contribute a style or a new website translator The software is independent of the current sponsors
18	Future Developments online citation backup and sharing testing to begin Spring 2008 sharing of scholarly documents in association with Internet Archive an unusually well-funded project (Young 2007)
19	Summary Zotero is a tool It is one tool among many It is a relatively flexible tool It has serious grant-funding and is developed by scholars It translates PubMed abbreviations into complete journal titles
20	Sources: Works Cited McLemee, Scott. “Mark of Zotero.” Inside Higher Ed.com. 18 Dec 2007 <http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/26/mclemee>. Young, Jeffrey R. “New Effort Encourages Professors to Share the Research Materials on Their Hard Drives.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 18 Dec 2007 <http://chronicle.com/free/2007/12/968n.htm>.
21	Sources: More Details “Frequently asked questions.” 4 Dec 2007 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/frequently_asked_questions>. Greenberg, Josh. “Compatible sites.” 5 Oct 2006. 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/translators>. “Screencast tutorials.” 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/screencast_tutorials>. “Word processor integration.” 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/word_processor_integration>.
22	Sources: Where to Get It Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Zotero http://www.zotero.org Portable Firefox (Windows) http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable Portable Firefox (Mac) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29673
23	About Me Chris Strauber Reference & Web Services Librarian Wofford College Chair of LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group cstrauber@gmail.com Questions? cstrauber+zotero@gmail.com