1. Zotero Evangelism for
Grad Students
Rebecca Onion
9.16.11

2.  “A free, easy-to-use tool to help you
collect, organize, cite, and share your
research sources. It lives right where you
do your work—in the web browser itself.”
 CHNM
 But what does it look like?
 Why’s it better than Endnote? Or is it?
 http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/zotero-
What Is It?

3.  Tutorials I made for my undergrads, covering
basic input methods:
 http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/
 http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/
 http://americanchildhoods.com/resources/zotero/
Basic Functions

4.  Use an ever-evolving system of folders to
contain and correlate leads
 Put items in more than one folder
 Organize items for future revisions
 SEARCHABLE
 Be sure to back up! Pay CHNM, or use
www.carbonite.com
Advantages of Zotero for planning
future research

5.  Jpegs go in folder on desktop – make sure to
include metadata in some way, either in the
photo or in your folder name
 At your leisure, open up jpegs in Preview,
make sure they’re small enough (do a save-
as and decrease quality), turn into PDFs (
http://www.pdfsam.org/ is free) and combine
 Create Zotero record, input your own
metadata, and attach PDF
 Rename PDF using record metadata
Inputting Archival Materials

6. Entertain Yourself

7. Digital Hoarding (am I a Collyer
brother?)

8.  www.rebeccaonion.com/teaching/zoteroforgra
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