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Working with Zotero Bibliographic Software

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a Firefox add-on, which can:

• manage your literature references, both online and offline
• detect and import lists of references from websites and major databases
• take a snapshot of a website for future reference
• create a bibliography in HTML or in your text editor (MS Word, Open Office)

You can download and install Zotero from www.zotero.org.

How to use Zotero?

Watch the zdemo at Zotero.org for a quick introduction!

Follow these steps to use the programme:

1. locate the website or references you want
2. open Zotero by clicking on the logo in the Firefox status bar
3. add the reference. Depending on the source: 
   -  click the Zotero icon in the Firefox address bar or 
   -  add the item using the Zotero tool bar
4. alternatively, you can organise your references in Collections 
5. you might want to add personal tags, notes and links

Image: saving items from TU Delft Library catalogue to Zotero

Which TU Delft Library resources are compatible?

Zotero can detect and import references from:

• TU Delft Library catalogue (Aleph)
• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• many more...