Documentation:Research Commons/Citation Management/Zotero

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 2006, Zotero was developed as an extension for the Firefox web-browser to "live" that right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. Zotero runs in its own pane within Firefox, separately from web pages and "scrapes" information to populate the your citation database.

The Research Commons team offers monthly 2-hour workshops to get you started with Zotero. In these hands-on workshops, you'll learn how to import and organize your research citations and format your bibliographies in the citation style of your choice. You'll leave the workshops with a basic database of research citations and the skills to build on it.

NOTICE: Systematic downloading or harvesting articles, citations, metadata (e.g. using citation managers such as EndNote or Zotero) is strickly prohibited. (You must contact https://techserv.library.ubc.ca/licensing/license-question/. Permission is required or a Text and Data Mining Package should be purchased.)

To view upcoming workshops and to register for a session, visit the Library Workshops and Events Calendar and search for Zotero.

Workshop Materials

• Introduction to Zotero handout
• Zotero 20 Challenges handout

Instructional Videos