Research is a lot of work: delving into scholarly databases, following bibliographic leads, identifying useful insights, and tracking how scholars’ work relates to each other’s and to your own. And if that weren’t enough, you have to somehow keep track of it all: your notes, your process, your bibliographic references, and the texts themselves. It’s a daunting prospect, to say the least.
So what if we told you that there’s a free and open-source tool; available on desktop, mobile, and the web; supported by the Ohio State Libraries; that can help you organize all of this, and more? There is, and it’s Zotero!
Come to this demo session to learn how you can use Zotero to organize your research:
- Import full bibliographic records
- Attach notes to sources and link notes to each other
- Categorize sources and notes around topics and projects
- Connect Zotero to all of Ohio State’s subscription content
Additionally, we’ll showcase a new initiative allowing English grad students to collaborate on source lists and materials for various subfields, to cut down on duplicate effort when planning programs of study, etc.
This demonstration will be followed by drop-in coworking time the following Wednesday, Nov. 13, when anyone is welcome to come and work on Zotero with support available. Come by to help build out subject lists, or work on projects of your own!
The Zotero events are jointly presented by the Digital Media Project, the English Graduate Organization, and the Ohio State Libraries.
