This presentation was given at the 3rd "DH brownbag lunch" hosted by the Digital Humanities Lab at the Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. PLEASE NOTE: only the first slide (titel) is in German, the other slides are all in English.

1. „Von der Literaturverwaltung zum
kollaborativen Datenmanagement –
ZOTERO für Einsteiger und
Fortgeschrittene“
MONIKA BARGET, IEG MAINZ, 23RD SEPTEMBER 2019

2. 1) Why bibliographical databases?
 Cite as you write.
 Easily fix incomplete data or spelling
mistakes in all footnotes/endnotes at
once.
 Export bibliographical references in any
citation style required by your publisher.
 Handle sources and secondary works in
multiple languages.
 Create customised publication styles if
you are a book or journal editor.
 Make co-authoring more efficient.

3. 2) Why use ZOTERO?
 Do not worry about licence fees
and institutional limitations.
 Join an active community of users
and developers.
 Collaboratively use and edit
bibliographical data with other
researchers.
 Feature requests can be shared
with the developers at any time.

4. 3) How do I get started?
Create account and access ZOTERO via FIREFOX Download stand-alone version

5. 4) How can I import references to ZOTERO?
 Many digital library
catalogues offer export
functions for single or
multiple references to
different formats.
 Get the ZOTERO
browser add-on to grab
data directly from
websites.
 Import your libraries
from other software as
BibTex, XML or other.

6. 5) How can I sort and tag my data?
 Create folders and
subfolders.
 Move files via
„drag&drop“.
 Get rid of duplicates and
find „orphaned“ data.
 Use the „tag selector“ to
rename, delete or add
new tags.
 Use the colour scheme to
highlight tagged items.
 Check archive-defined
and user-defined tags in
the „tag“ tab.

7. 6) How can I share data or edit data
collaboratively?
 Export individual items or whole folders as
a reading list that can be copied into
WORD.
 Create or join a ZOTERO group and invite
new members.

8. 7) How can I adjust my references to
various (international) citation styles?
 Update your „Document
Preferences“ in the WORD plug-in.
 Different citation styles (also for
individual publishing houses or
journals) can be chosen from the
standard menu or added later.
 Chose the right language settings for
each document (source language
must be added for each item
beforehand).
 Post a „style request“ in the forums.

9. 8) Create and share your own style!
 Follow the instructions on
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/
citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-
step.
 Do not hesitate to ask for assistance
in one of the forums. 
 Notify your collaborators and the
ZOTERO community that a new style
is available.

10. 9) How can I use ZOTERO for data analysis?
 Export ZOTERO libraries as structured data
in various formats,
many of which include tags and user
notes.

11. THANKS FOR COMING …
 … and have fun with ZOTERO, your new partner in research data
management!
 We are looking forward to your questions.
 To install ZOTERO, please go to https://www.zotero.org/download/.
 Also check out the increasing number of third-party plug-ins:
https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins