Tag: Citation management

I’ve been getting more requests lately to help faculty and students work with Zotero, some of whom want to know how to take a set of search results and bring them all in to Zotero. I just recorded a pair of videos for one person about how to do that and thought I might as well get more mileage out of that effort by sharing them here, too.

Part 1: Using the “export” option PsycINFO to email yourself a link where you can download the file with the citations:
https://www.screencast.com/t/yZiq25gDIp0u

Part 2: Retrieving the file from the link in the email you receive, unzipping the file, and then importing the file (and all the citations therein) into Zotero:
https://www.screencast.com/t/DbIjhWNv

If you have any questions about this or any other aspect of Zotero, feel free to call me or email at any time.

Zotero has long been my favorite tool for citation management. Sitting within my Firefox browser, this free tool made it dead simple to add citations from databases and selected websites as I surfed and searched. Now, Zotero has a desktop client that lets you access your citations from an interface independent of Firefox. Even better, there are now plugins for a few other browsers (Google Chrome and Safari) that let you save citations and send them to the desktop client. Zotero also offers connectors for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice so you can cite while you write.

• Details on the new standalone Zotero software
• Download page for the new Zotero
• The best guide to getting started with Zotero (a LibGuide from Georgia State University librarian Jason Puckett)

If anyone really wants to get serious about Zotero, feel free to borrow my copy of Jason Puckett’s brand new book from ALA, Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators.