 Welcome! This is the first in a series of videos explaining Zotero 5. This video covers downloading and the general interface. Zotero is a free citation management software. That means it will gather up citations and store them until you are ready to write your paper. Secondarily, it will gather available full text and store it with the citation. Finally, when you are ready to write your paper, Zotero connects to Microsoft Word and helps you to easily insert the in-text citations and the bibliography or references in virtually any citation style. Zotero is a freeware plugin for the Chrome and Firefox browsers for the PC and the Safari browser for the Mac. First, you will need to download one of those browsers if you do not have one of them installed. Then you need to download Zotero from its website. Lastly, you will need to download the Zotero connector for the browser you will be using with Zotero. This will also connect it to Microsoft Word. Once installed, you will see the browser's icon and the Zotero icon. Open both the browser and Zotero. First, let's look at Zotero. Zotero is in a separate window. The leftmost panel is the overall view of your Zotero citations. If you click on the New Collection button, you can name and create a new folder to store your citations. You might choose to have one folder for each paper or for each class. Create a folder right now called Test. In doing so, you'll see that the folder called Test is now highlighted. This is important. Before you begin your citation gathering, make sure the folder you want to save your citations to is highlighted with a single left click. If you don't, your citations will be saved, but they will be less convenient to find later. If you do forget, however, you can drag and drop the citations from one folder to another. If you right-click on a folder, you will see options to rename or to create a new sub-collection. For example, you could have a folder for each class, then a sub-collection for each paper. The second panel contains the citations for the highlighted folder in the first panel. You can choose what you want to display here, but keep the selection to about three, otherwise you can't see the citation information at a glance. You can see various small icons next to each item. This white page icon stands for an article citation. This blue book icon represents a book citation. This page, with a blue bar on the bottom, is for a web page capture. There are many icons, but those are the most common. In the third panel, you see a series of tabs. I'll discuss the Info tab, the Notes tab, and the Tags tab. The Info tab contains all of the information that is gathered by Zotero for you, such as the author, the book or journal title, the year of publication, and more. While all of it is gathered by Zotero, you can make changes or additions by clicking in any field. That is not usually necessary for information you've gathered from a reliable database. However, when you gather from the Internet in general, you may find you need to make corrections and additions. I'll talk more about that later. The Notes tab can be very useful for summarizing the content, keeping track of information while you read, or for points discussed during class. If you click the Add button, you will get a window in which you can type a summary, statistics, quotations, or your thoughts and questions about the text. You can format the notes with italics, bold, etc., then copy and paste them into Word for your paper. Or, say you're reading a book. You could write a summary for each chapter. Each note is automatically named for the first words of the text. Then they are automatically sorted under the citation they are attached to. The last tab I will cover is the Tags tab. This is useful after you start to gather a good many citations and remembering them starts to become difficult. There will be some tags present which are gathered by Zotero from the database. These are usually subject terms, but you can add tags such as the class name, the professor, the quarter, or other keywords that would make it easy to find and group together similar citations. To search your Zotero database of citations for these tags, as well as authors, titles, or keywords, use this search box.