Back on April 11th, the new release of Zotero, the 4.0, was launched. You can download it at the following link http://www.zotero.org/download/. There is plenty of new features in this version. We will have the chance to go extensively through them in our workshops during the next academic year. In the meantime you can find [...]

In the past few weeks, there has been lots of news at the EUI regarding Zotero. In order: (1) Firstly, the troubles between our catalogues and Zotero have now been worked out. Now, EUI users can use Zotero with both the library catalogue (http://biblio.eui.eu) and the discovery tool (http://encore.eui.eu) without encountering any problem of the [...]

Recently our staff upgraded the EUI library catalogue. Since then some troubles have been recorded in using Zotero along with the EUI catalogue. In particular, Zotero is not able to import items from the catalogue into the Zotero library. This problems are related exclusively to our main catalogue (http://biblio.eui.eu).   However, the discovery tool (http://encore.eui.eu) [...]

On October 31, I lead the session of the Atelier Multimédia on the advance features of Zotero. Along with about ten participants , we discussed how to get the most out of Zotero. These are the topics touched during the session:  Cite-when-you-write function Timeline  Zotero Maps Tips and Tricks  Managing more than one Zotero library  [...]

Last Wednesday Serge Noiret introduced Zotero to the new researchers for the second time since the beginning of the new academic year (here you can download the slides of his presentation). The meeting was attended by a dozen enthusiastic researchers interested to know how to get the most out of Zotero. Many specific questions were raised [...]

In this post, I want to introduce one of those features that means Zotero is unquestionably a 2.0 digital tool, namely its “Group Library” function. I will do this by presenting a practical example of how to use this Zotero function. “Group library” provides a powerful way to share collections with a class, work closely [...]