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Zotero Basics: Home

This guide includes a summary of our Zotero workshop, plus useful links to get you started.

Why Use Zotero?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  • It is a great way to organize your research sources.
  • The basic software and online storage are free, so you don’t have to invest in software.
  • It works great with browser connectors for downloading records for your sources from our research databases.
  • It easily integrates with Microsoft Word and Google Docs so you can import and organize your citations in your manuscripts.

Credits

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This guide was created by Annie Platoff at the UCSB Library and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

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