22
Mark of Zotero* Two-click citations Chris Strauber Wofford College Library Presented via OPAL, 1/23/08 *with thanks to Scott McLemee and everyone else who used this pun first.
| Date post: | 17-May-2015 |
| Category: |
Business |
| Upload: | guest80c196 |
| View: | 660 times |
| Download: | 0 times |
Mark of Zotero* Two-click citations
Chris StrauberWofford College LibraryPresented via OPAL, 1/23/08
*with thanks to Scott McLemee and everyone else who used this pun first.
The Agenda
a reference librarian’s view of Zotero’s reality and potential
three short demonstration videos a list of sources to explore further plenty of time for questions
Right, Easy, Clear. Pick One.
Citation is hard to do, hard to explain A variety of software to manage
citations is availablecomputers are stupid but fastcitation rules are complex
Leading us to...
Just Fill Out This Simple Form
Just Fill Out This Simple Form #2
Just Fill Out This Simple Form # 3
Zotero: A Different Approach
Zoh-TAIR-oh a citation manager built into a web
browser a scholarly tool built by scholar/geeks
Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Funded by IMLS and the Mellon Foundation
What It Does
captures and stores citation information from websites
creates references and bibliographies takes notes and saves snapshots does all of this inside the web browserVideo 1: Zotero Interface
note: citations chosen for entertainment value!
What It Does Differently
Zotero automates gathering citations
Video 2: Zotero Capture
What Zotero Recognizes
Complete list of sites Library catalogs
Innovative, Sirsi-Dynix, Ex Libris Book websites
Worldcat, Amazon Subscription databases
EBSCO, JSTOR, ScienceDirect, Wiley Interscience, etc.
What Zotero Recognizes #2
Research portals Pubmed, ERIC, arXiv.org, Google
Scholar, etc. Media websites
Economist, NY Times, The Age, etc. Other websites
YouTube, Flickr, CiteULike, Epicurious, others
Zotero Citation Styles
APA, MLA, and Chicago specialized styles for Nature, IEEE,
National Library of Medicine, and others
Not 100% perfect
other styles can be added by users Journal of Nano-Epidemiology
Zotero Bibliographies
Three short films about creating bibliographies
Video 3: Zotero Citations
Extra Features
Take notes in any language or alphabet
Visualize your references on a timeline
Use as an OpenURL resolver Easily import and export your data
Infelicities
Garbage In, Garbage Outcapitalization varies by database
Some confusion about multiple contributorsauthor? translator? editor?
Website recognition is a moving target
What Zotero Doesn’t Do
work in any browser but Firefox export in every possible citation style recognize every possible source replace a web-based system like
Refworks or Connotea
Yet.
Why Open-Source Matters
Anyone interested can contribute a style or a new website translatornote: this is how Refworks does it also
The software is independent of the current sponsors
Firefox’s open nature is what makes this project possible
Future Developments
online citation backup and sharingtesting to begin Spring 2008
sharing of scholarly documentsin assoc. with Internet Archive
an unusually well-funded project (Young 2007)
Summary
Zotero is a toolIt is one tool among manyIt is a relatively flexible tool
It has serious grant-funding and is developed by scholars
It translates PubMed abbreviations into complete journal titles
Sources: Works Cited
McLemee, Scott. “Mark of Zotero.” Inside Higher Ed.com. 18 Dec 2007 <http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/26/mclemee>.
Young, Jeffrey R. “New Effort Encourages Professors to Share the Research Materials on Their Hard Drives.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 18 Dec 2007 <http://chronicle.com/free/2007/12/968n.htm>.
Sources: More Details
“Frequently asked questions.” 4 Dec 2007 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/frequently_asked_questions>.
Greenberg, Josh. “Compatible sites.” 5 Oct 2006. 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/translators/>.
“Screencast tutorials.” 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/screencast_tutorials>.
“Word processor integration.” 8 Jan 2008 <http://www.zotero.org/documentation/word_processor_integration>.
About Me
Chris Strauber
Reference & Web Services Librarian
Wofford College
Chair of LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group
Questions?
