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Zotero Workshop

Digital Zotero Workshop

Zotero is fully integrated with Google Docs, LibreOffice, and MS Word/PowerPoint. Join the course and learn how to best take advantage of the tool’s functionality.

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The University Library invites you to a fully digital workshop on using Zotero (Zoom).

We will spend the first hour going thorugh the most basic functions of Zotero. After this hour, you should be ready to get started with the software. If you prefer to leave the workshop here and join us again for a later class, that is fine.

If you are allready familiar with the basics, you are welcome to join after the first hour, if you so prefer.  

10:00 Introduction to Zotero

  • Quick demo of what we are to learn today
  • Saving references to Zotero
  • Keeping your Zotero-library organized
  • Writing and citing in Zotero (Word and possibly Google Docs)
  • Backup
  • Preparing to submit, assignment or paper
  • Hands-on exercise

10:50 Break

11:00 More Zotero

  • Tayloring layout and set-up
  • Finding your workflow
  • Sharing and cowriting
  • Synchronizing options
  • Retractionwatch
  • Staying updated: Feeds
  • Questions

Zotero 8 can be downloaded form Zotero.org. Employees can download Zotero 7 from Software Center. Please install Zotero and Zotero Connector for your browser before the workshop, so you are ready for hands-on exercises. 

If requested by at least one participant, the workshop will be conducted in English.