Zotero

It is important to keep your library organised so that you can easily retrieve references you need. In this section we look at various activities essential to keeping your library organised, and also look at how to share your Zotero library with others.

On these pages you will find information on how to organise, search and manage references in your desktop library: 

• Using collections / folders: Organise your references into collections to make them easier to find or to tag them to assist your research workflow.
• Deleting references: from your library and from collections.
• Managing full text documents: Learn how to add files to references, view and annotate attached PDFs and manage your full text settings
• Searching your library: If your Zotero library contains many references it is useful to be able to search it to retrieve particular references..
• Dealing with duplicates: It is important to ensure you have removed any duplicate references in your library.
• Sharing references: Zotero Groups: this feature allows you to share references with other Zotero users online. It's a great way to work on collaborative research projects.

Get in the habit of tidying up the bibliographic record as soon as you have downloaded it. Check to see, for example, that the author is not in the title field, the first name is not in the surname field, that there is a place of publication and date of publication, etc.