 Let's go ahead and get started. Zotero. So in the old days before we had fancy reference management software there was a variety of techniques that people would use to conduct their research. Many students would engage in what I would call scratch notes where references and notes and sources were written all over the place with the hope that somehow, some way, somewhere down the road, they'd be able to bring those sources back together and actually finish a paper. Ultimately this was a bit of a mess and not a very successful method. So in a way, in a means to try to find a better way to do this, many students were taught how to use index cards to categorize and keep track of their sources. While useful and far more organized than writing references all over the place, index cards wore a lot of work to put together and somewhat burdensome when you got into the larger research projects that would take somewhere in the range of more than 20 sources. So a few years ago there started to be a whole wide variety of digital sources that were open for the public. Personally I remember using the son of the citation machine a lot. The only problem with a lot of these programs is that one, they were very limited or two, they cost money. More recently we started to see some of these social bookmarking features such as site you like and community.org. However, they still don't gain the functionality that you would hope to see out of the full featured reference manager software. I will briefly mention that why I favor Zotero in NoteWeb has also become a very popular research tool. Though I still think that Zotero does a better job and has more useful features which is the ultimate reason why I support it and am giving this lecture a part on it. So when Zotero came along it was a refreshing moment for me and other scholars as well because you didn't have to fill out those silly 3x5 cards anymore and it made it a lot easier for you to keep track of your information. So the best way I find to think about Zotero is like an iTunes program however for keeping track of references and things that you use for your speeches in your papers. So let's talk a little bit why Zotero is so awesome. First thing, Zotero is free. I'm going to repeat that. Zotero is free. It's actually a type of software known as open source where the code of the software is freely available and edited and maintained by a community of programmers. Now there is a company organization behind Zotero however it is highly unlikely that we would ever see a pay version of Zotero down the road because it contains so much of that open source code. Another reason why I really like Zotero is that it is fast, literally as fast as you can type and with the automatic import features even faster. It also allows you to search your items which is something that was lacking in similar programs that would just dump things into large databases and make it difficult to find unless you had some sort of paper system to keep track of. It allows you to enhance your entries so you can add notes, images, copies of PDF files and such to the citations that you keep track of. And you can also include personal tags of your own to help you search for citations that may fall into a category. For example, if I was writing a speech on border technology I may add a border technology tag to all my related sources so that I can find them easy down the road. Another thing that sets Zotero out from other programs is the built-in functionality to automatically capture citation information. Literally it only takes a click and on pages like Google Scholar you're able to import several citations at once. Note taking is really easy with autosave and again it has that iTunes playlist like interface. Another set of reasons why Zotero is useful for the student is that getting information out of Zotero is really simple and definitely helps improve your research experience. So it allows you to pick from any of 20 some-odd research styles including MLA, Chicago style and very useful to this course, APA. It also for the most part runs right in your web browser if you're using Firefox however there is in a standalone version available for Safari and Google Chrome. Again it allows you to save records and notes in any language and you can even set it up to automatically grab PDF files and whole websites that you're looking at in your research. The final reason why Zotero is probably the most useful reference management software out there is that it also has plugins to allow you to integrate it with your word processor. This means once you've established a library of sources and installed the plugin for Microsoft Word or open office you then get a toolbar in your browser that allows you to automatically insert in-text citations and have Zotero create your work cited or reference page from the citations that you inserted. For a student like me that sometimes has to keep track of 40 to 50 citations for a paper this literally saves me hours of time. So the whole point I'm getting at here is y'all should try Zotero. So let's talk a little bit about how to use it. There's a couple of different ways that you can install and use Zotero. I recommend that you use it under the Firefox browser. There is however a new standalone version that works for Chrome and Safari that has connectors that work separate outside of the browser and it's coming along pretty well but it's still in a pretty early release. So if you're not using Firefox you probably should for your heavy-duty research endeavors and I think that it just works better that way. However if you're really stuck on using Safari or Chrome by all means I'll give you a couple tips on how to download the standalone version and use it that way too. Alright so let's talk about setting it up. The first thing that you want to do is go ahead and hop on your browser and point it to Zotero.org. Once the site's loaded up up in the right hand corner you should see a link that looks something like this that says download. Go ahead and click that link. Now what'll happen immediately after that is across the top of your screen a yellow or gray bar will pop up with a button on the right. You should go ahead and click that button, click allow and then a window that looks like this will pop up. It'll count down from five and go ahead and click install. Then at that point you should go ahead and restart Firefox. Now if you're not using Firefox and you're using Chrome or Safari and I haven't convinced you to try Firefox you really should just write Firefox. But if you're not going to listen you can go ahead and try out the standalone alpha version of it. So again point your browser to Zotero.org and then a little ways down from where you saw the red download link you'll see the new Try Zotero standalone alpha. Go ahead and click on that. Then it'll bring up a series of options and you should go ahead and pick the program for the type of computer you have. So you have a Mac, choose Mac. If you have a PC go ahead and choose the Windows link. At that point it'll lead you through a series of prompts to download the program. Go ahead and let it download and then on a Mac all you have to do is drag and drop the program into your applications folder. If you did it for BC double click on the installer, let it run and it'll finish it. After you've done that you need to go back to the Zotero page and install the connector for one of your browser is. So if you're using Chrome there's a link for the connector for Chrome go ahead and click on that. It'll install I think it has you restart your computer and then you're good to go. Likewise if you're using Safari click on the connector Safari, install it, restart and you should be good to go. One thing to remind you that if you're using the standalone version this is only if you're trying to use it with Google or excuse me with Chrome or Safari you have to have the standalone program open. So there's a program called Zotero now on your computer you want to make sure that that's open before you try to use Zotero in your browser. If you're using Firefox it's all integrated and you don't have to worry about any of that. Alright so let's talk a little bit about using Zotero. So most of what I'm going to show you now applies to Firefox however I think that even if you're using the standalone version most of it will make sense except a few of the icons are up top instead of down in the bottom like the images that I'm showing you now. So after you've installed Zotero in Firefox a Zotero logo will appear down in the bottom right hand corner of your browser. If you click on it this window will open and this is what's known as your library. Now I'm going to briefly just kind of give you a quick tour on what everything is here. So over here on the side are the organizational folders they call them collections but it's best to think of them as your playlists for your references. So what you can do here is you can click on this link right here and add new collections for each of your assignments classes. What I usually do is I create a folder for each of my seminar classes and then I create sub collections inside those folders having to do with specific assignments but you can organize it any way that you see fit. Over here in the center is where all of your references will start to show up once you started adding some to Zotero and then over here on the right is where you'll be able to view the specific information contained in each of those references. Across the top this is to edit settings and types of Zotero. This link here is to manually add a reference if not using the automatic import feature. This one will automatically create a reference from a web page that you're on. The magic wand link if you put an ISBN from a book or a digital object identifier it'll go ahead and like magic bring import the information for that citation in. This link allows you to add notes and other add-ons. This one allows you to attach files and here is a search bar that lets you search your database and the little x here allows you to close the window and minimize it back down to the subtask bar. So let's talk about how we get some information into Zotero. Now for the most part in the research that you're going to be doing for my class and I would imagine most of your other classes you'll be using tools that have automatic import functionality with Zotero. So for an example today I went ahead and went to the Chico library and I pulled up a book on immigration from the Chico library catalog and then I went to Epsco host and hopped on the academic elite search database and searched for an immigration and found an interesting immigration related article and then I opened up the ProQuest database and I found a recent newspaper article from the New York Times I believe that was on that repository and as you can see with all of these up in the address bar next to the address location there appears to be these little icons book journal article and newspaper to get the reference citation for any of these types of sources from any of these major sites that we use. All you have to do is click on the icon and Zotero will automatically grab and import the reference and pull it directly into your library. So I went ahead and did that and pulled a few different sources into our library so we could talk about it. After you clicked and added them to your library now you've got them and you can make changes as you see fit. So if you click on one of these and I clicked on borders and blessings then you can see that all the information for the source shows up on the right hand side. Now a note sometimes when you import citations capitalization will get a little bit mixed up. In APA format on titles of sources you should only title the first letter of the title and the first letter of the subtitle and then any proper proper nouns. So if we look here we'll probably want to change that blessings and all of the subwords here except for Arizona to be a lowercase. But it's easy to change and add information once you have it inside your Zotero library. So a couple things on the item enhancements that you can do. First off everything that I'm showing you here is the stuff and information that's located here on top of the reference information. So the first thing is when you click on certain sources a view button will pop up and the view button will simply take you to the web address associated with that source. Often if it doesn't have a web address it'll have some sort of digital object identifier or issn and you click locate button and Zotero will attempt to find that article for you if you need to go back and find some information you didn't have in the first time. The info tab is where the main chunk of information about your citation is. This is where you can go ahead and edit information about any citation you put in. The notes tab are notes that you have created. So back in the old days when people used index cards they would often write notes on the back relating to the use and need they had for that source. You however don't have to do that. You can simply create a note and connect it to a source and say for example this would be a good source to use for the second main point of my informative speech. The attachment tab will show you all the attachments that you have. Often when I'm doing research I like to grab the full text PDF of the source and attach it to my Zotero. That way anywhere I go that I have Zotero with me I can have access to the full text PDF of any journal article that I've ever used in a paper. Tags are ways that you can give search features to individual citations inside Zotero. So if you have a special tag that you want to add to a series of citations so that you can easily find it later you can go ahead and do that. Do keep in mind that you can also organize your citations into collections and keep track of them that way. Another useful feature is the related feature. And this allows you to go ahead and connect a series of citations together. That way if for example you wanted to keep all of your white papers on technology for a given speech topic connected you could do it through this means. So as I was alluding to earlier there's a variety of different source types that you can add to Zotero. I'm not going to go through them all but as you can get from looking at the screen here there's a wide variety of sources that have their own special way to be formatted in a paper that Zotero can import and take care of you. So for example if you wanted to cite a YouTube video Zotero has a function for that. If you want to cite a thesis or a conference paper or even a radio broadcast Zotero can take care of that too. So now that we've talked about putting information into Zotero let's talk about some of the ways that we can get information out. First of all there's a couple different ways that you can do this. First of all you can start by just selecting a chunk of citations right clicking or excuse me dragging those sources onto a Word document or an email page or pretty much anywhere and Zotero will automatically create the source in the type of setting that you have set as your default. Another way is you can select several sources right click on them and tells Zotero to create a bibliography to select sources. It'll bring up a window that looks like this and then at this point you can select your style for this class APA 6 edition and you can either save it as an RTF file save it as an HTML file or copy it to the clipboard. I usually find copying it to clipboard works the easiest because then you can just go ahead and paste it in the handy templates that I've used for you and then for some reason partially covered up here the final way to get information out is that you can use those built-in word processing plugins and Zotero will go ahead and take care of the creation of both in-text citations and your references page for you. So let's talk a little bit more about that. So if you're interested in using the full functionality of Zotero you should download the plugin for your word processing program. I use open office and so that's the plugin that I've downloaded but if you use Microsoft Word or Neo Office one of the others go ahead and download the plugin for that they work basically the same. So again navigate on to Zotero.org halfway down the right hand side you should see this link download word processor plugins it'll in Firefox it simply installs another plugin for Firefox and the other two browsers I think it's going to do something slightly install a standalone version of it. Once you've done that and restarted your browser and your word processor you'll notice that a toolbar appears it looks like this. The toolbar allows you to do a wide variety of things. First off if you click this one on the far left this is what allows you to insert in-text citations so by clicking this button a window like this will pop up you can navigate to the sources that you have for a given assignment click on them click okay you can throw a page number in if you're doing a direct quotation and boom you'll have that in-text citation. If you need to edit it down the road you can just click on it so in your paper click the edit button and it'll allow you to do it. This one allows you to insert your references or work cited page at the end this allows you to edit your references or work cited page at the end. This one is a refresh button if you just want to refresh changes that you've made in Zotero since last time you open a word document settings and don't worry about the link button.