This is an outline for a hands-on workshop on Zotero adapted (loosely) from the support documentation organization on Zotero's support page.
- Download and install both...
- Zotero Standalone (a desktop application)
- At least one Zotero Connector for the browser of your choice
- 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
- Using the built in PDF reader
- 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
