 Hello there, this is Gabe Gossett with the Hackerel Research and Writing Studio in Western Libraries and today I'm going to be presenting this video that gives you an overview of what Zotero is and why should you be interested in Zotero in the first place and at starting out it's a tool that allows you to collect and organize sources and then this is the part that most people really like about it it allows you to export formatted citations because a lot of Citations are a form of technical information. They're able to be formatted automatically using this type of software And then it also allows you to connect content between multiple devices So the content that you collect on one computer you're going to be able to get it synchronized to other computers That in turn allows you to collaborate with others using Zotero at the same time as well So what is Zotero? It's something that comes from the Roy Royzenzweig Center for History and New Media And that's something that's supported by George Mason University and the National Endowment for the Humanities And so one of the things about Zotero that is worth keeping in mind is that it is Grounded in academia and it's a tool that's developed for academics by other academics as well And so the software that's been developed it works with your browser So it has an add-on to your browser that allows you to do that collecting process where you start to bring in the content And then it lets you to build basically a personal database of sources They are going to be yours to keep down the road So you get those journal articles those books those videos and Even online webpages and you can collect and build them into a database that makes sense to you And is organized in a way that works for you