This online course is for anyone who would like to learn Zotero (pronounced zoh-TAIR-oh), a free tool for managing and citing your bibliographic references. The lessons are designed for complete beginners and I'll walk you through every step with clear instructions, and short videos. The course is also suitable for anyone who has been using Zotero for a little while, but suspects they're not taking advantage of all the features, such as color-coding tags and creating saved searches.

I've been using Zotero for nearly 10 years and it's definitely made my life much easier. I'd love to make your life easier, too!

Please note:this course covers version 5.0 of Zotero.

We'll cover topics including:

Introduction

• Hello & Welcome

• Installing Zotero

• Finding Your Way Around

Adding Items to Your Zotero Library

• How to Add Books

• How to Add Journal Articles

• How to Link to External Files

• How to Add Webpages

• How to Import Your Mendeley Library

• How to Import Your EndNote Library

Organising Your Zotero Library

• Working with Collections

• Working with Tags

• How to Create Related Items

• How to Create Notes

• Basic Searching

• Advanced Searching

• Creating a Saved Search

Creating Citations and Bibliographies

• Using Zotero with Word

• Creating a Citation in Word

• Creating a Bibliography in Word

• Working with Styles

• Using Zotero with Google Docs

It should take you no more than 2 hours to complete the course. By this time you'll be a confident Zotero user and ready to produce well-formatted academic papers.