ZOTERO PRESENTATION

PRESENTED BY : IAN KIARIE

Course : Commerce (Finance Major)

: 4th year

Presentation Outline• Definition• Benefits• Installation• Creating accounts• Creating a Library• Zotero sections• Inserting bibliography• Challenges

Definition of zotero

• It is a free, fairly easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

• It is free and open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data

Benefits

1. It’s a free and open source2. keep you organized

3. With an account you can save you work and use the same later4. The mode of referencing is automatically formatted when using

zotero5. Zotero saves your library locally in your computer

6. Easy to use

Installation processURL

Installation process cont.

Download zotero for your browser and allow it to install

From zotero home page under url www.zotero.org/download/add a plug in for word and allow it to run in your computer

Creating a zotero account

Zotero sections

A. Collection

B. Items/Content

C. Details

Zotero sections continued

collections items Details

EBSCO research database page

Inserting bibliography

Step 1: insert citation

Step 2: insert bibliography

Insert citation

Insert bibliography

CHALLENGES OF USING ZOTERO

i. Late updates of the software

ii. The fact that Zotero resides on your Firefox browser in your computer makes it difficult for users to share items

CONTACT

IAN KIARIE

Email : ian.w.kiarie@gmail.com

: ian.w.kiarie@hotmail.com

Mobile No: 0710877881