ISDS Research Committee Literature Review

Zotero Overview

July 26, 2012

Why use Zotero?

• Increasing Literature review process efficiency– Export citations from Scopus– Import into Zotero– Easier to manage citations

• Making it easier for you to find article(s) you are interested in– Search– Sort

Zotero Overview

• www.zotero.org

Log-in

• www.zotero.org/user/login/

Group Library

• https://www.zotero.org/groups/70245/items• Opens on My Library• Go to ‘Groups’

Group Library

• Click ‘Group Library’ underneath ISDS Research Committee Literature Review

Articles

• Click on the relevant Literature Review folder to view article titles

Full Text

• Click on the title you are interested in to view more information

• If the full text is available, it will be under ‘Notes and Attachments’

Searching for Key Words

• If you are interested in particular topics, try using the ‘Tags’ to search for key words– Look through the list of available tags– Type key word(s) to reduce number of available tags

Example

• Select ‘Airborne transmission’ tag

Zotero

• Feel free to use the general ISDS account, so that you do not have to:– Download anything– Create an individual account

• If you are interested, you can create your own Zotero account– Let me know your Zotero username and I will add

you to the ISDS Literature Review Group

Zotero

• If create Zotero account, there are plug-ins for Firefox and Google Chrome