Category: Citation management

10 advanced ways to become a more proficient Zoteroist

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Zotero is now fully integrated into your daily workflow and you’ve mastered all the basic features. Congrats! But did you know that Zotero can do much more than simply act as a citation manager and even become a central hub for your research? It serves as an archive of your work and can help you think, write, collaborate and stay organized. Here are 10 tips to help you become an advanced Zotero user.

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Home improvement, the Zotero way

A white house on a hillside
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You could think of Zotero as a house which you may want to customise to suit your needs. Instead of adding a porch or a swimming pool, this takes the form of plugins that allow you to add features to your reference manager. With the arrival of Zotero 7, which has brought some changes to the plugin landscape, this blog post has been updated.

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Zotero, an essential component of your academic toolbox

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Each semester our colleague Catherine Brendow gives training sessions on Zotero attended by dozens of students. She has also written a quite comprehensive web guide to help students to use this tool. But what is Zotero and is it worth investing some time to learn how to use it? Here is why it is a great tool for anyone writing essays and theses.

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