 Hello! Today I will be explaining Zotero. Zotero is a free citation management software. That means it will gather up citations and store them for use when you are ready to write your paper. Secondly, it will gather available full text and store it with the citation. Finally, when you write your paper, Zotero connects to Microsoft Word and helps you to easily insert the in-text citations and the bibliography in virtually any citation style. Zotero is a freeware, a plugin for the Firefox browser. So first you will need to download Firefox. Then you will need to download Zotero from its website. Lastly, you will need to download the Zotero Word plugin. This last software will connect your database of citations in Zotero to Microsoft Word. While Zotero is able to be used with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari, for the purposes of this instruction I would like to use the Firefox browser for ease of use. I will show you how to use the standalone version of Zotero in later videos. Also, I will be instructing using the PC version rather than the Mac or Linux version. You will find a handout for Zotero in the Fowl Library's Zotero LibGuide. Please refer to the Zotero handout that accompanies this series of videos and use the URLs provided to download the software. Install them and then return to the video to begin to learn how to use it. With the three softwares downloaded and installed, open the Firefox browser. You can see that Zotero is installed because of the Z in the corner. When you click it, you see the Zotero panels open and close. Zotero is always on when you are in Firefox. Clicking the Z displays the panels, but you don't need to open it or to save what you do. Open the Zotero panels and let's quickly discuss each panel. The leftmost panel is the overall view of your Zotero citations. If you have nothing in this panel right now, don't worry. As you practice, citations will be added. 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 each class. Create a folder right now called Test. In doing so, you will see that the folder called Test is now highlighted. That is important. Before you begin your citation gathering, make sure the folder you want to save the 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 a class and then a sub-collection folder 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. Keep the selection to about three, otherwise you can't see the citation information at a glance. 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 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 reliable databases. 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 keeping track of information while you read or for points discussed by your professor. 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 words that would make it easy to find and group together similar citations. To search your Zotero database of citations for authors, titles, keywords, or tags, use this search box. I'll search for a document with the author Barons, which I know is in here, but I don't know where it is. You see the result of the query appear in the second panel. From here I could edit, move, or add notes or tags to the citation.