Subsequently, you can add the 'Title', 'Author', 'Publisher', 'Date', 'Language', 'Short Title', 'URL', 'Archive', 'Library Catalog', 'Call Number', 'Rights', 'Date Added', and several other details. It will automatically be listed in the middle panel, allowing you to complete its 'Info' details. In order to add a 'New Item', you first need to select its corresponding type from the dedicated submenu, with options ranging between 'Book', 'Document', 'Journal Article', 'Artwork', 'Blog Post', to 'Email', 'Map', 'Film', 'Manuscript', 'Podcast', 'Report', 'Thesis', 'Interview' and many others. Collect references by creating them yourself or by importing themįrom 'My Library', you can create a 'New Group' or a 'New Collection' enabling you to thoroughly organize all your references into functional categories, so you can quickly locate them when you need to use them. Here, you can also add 'Notes', 'Tags' or connect 'Related' items between themselves. It features a straight-forward interface, with three panels, the first comprising 'My Library', the second listing the reference 'Titles' while the third features 'Info' about a selected entry, such as 'Item Type', 'Author', 'URL' and others. Functional interfaceįollowing an uneventful installation process, you can begin working with the application right away, as it does not require any special training or knowledge with similar tools.
All of these options will retain access to the original site from which the information was recieved.Zotero is an intuitive and user-friendly piece of software whose main function is to assist you in creating, adding and managing citations or other references that you may use in your research studies. Depending on the content of the page, Zotero will save the information as a news article or a screenshot, or will give you the option to save multiple resources from a database directly to your Zotero library. Once you’ve installed the extension, you're ready to use the Save to Zotero button to capture information.
If the webpage does not open in your preferred internet browser, you can either select the Show all connectors link at the bottom left of the screen, or you can copy the URL and paste it into your preferred browser.
This will link you to the Zotero webpage where you can install the browser extension. To add the Save to Zotero button to your browser from Zotero, click on Tools at the top menu of the Zotero desktop app, and select Install Browser Connector. The Save to Zotero button grabs information from any web page – in some cases a complete article – and adds it to your Zotero library. You can also easily edit the metadata of your saved resources prior to importing them into Zotero. With this browser extension, you can save a set of search results, an individual article, or a screenshot of a page directly to your Zotero desktop app. Zotero has an easy to use tool that installs in any web browser called the Save to Z otero button.
If the displayed version is not your current OS, select any of the links beneath the Download button.
While Zotero cannot be downloaded onto the library's computers, you can still download the Zotero desktop app onto your personal computer.