These are the slides that accompanied my 30 minute Zotero talk presented at EduTech Day 2012 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City on March 16, 2012. Slides were followed by demonstration of installing Zotero, collecting various types of resources, citing references in Microsoft Word, and generating a bibliography two different ways.

1. Using Zotero to Support
Scholarly Research
Marie Sciangula, Purchase College, SUNY
Assistant Director, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center
marie.sciangula@purchase.edu | about.me/msciangula

2. Student
Information
System
Academic Library
Analytics Information
Systems Live
Classroom
Campus (original slide by
Repository Keith Landa)
EduTech Ecosystem @ Purchase College

3. Zotero Basics
• free and open source browser add-on;
developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for
History and New Media (George Mason
University)
• developed for Firefox but now connects with
Safari and Chrome; senses what you’re looking at
• ownership of collected resources resides with the
individual researcher; not tied to any institution
• collected resources are accessible ‘in the cloud’

4. Zotero can…
• serve as conversation-starter with students
about ‘proper citation techniques’
• help students understand why providing
attribution to others’ work is important and
necessary as they work on and produce their
own scholarship
• make citing sources a more consistent part of
the scholarly research and writing process

5. Plagiarism is often unintentional.
from left to right: self-plagiarized > entire paper copied >
copied creative work > poor citation/patchwriting
Photo courtesy of Darcy Gervasio and Rebecca Oling (Purchase College, SUNY)

6. Detailed Zotero LibGuide is available at:
http://purchase.libguides.com/zotero
Suggested Reading:
Puckett, Jason. Zotero: A Guide for Librarians,
Researchers and Educators. American Library
Association, 2011. Print.

7. References
Landa, Keith. “Adventures in Open Source:
Lessons Learned at Purchase College.” SUNY
CIT 2011: 20/20 Vision, Looking Forward &
Remembering the Past. Oneonta, NY. 2011.
Gervasio, Darcy and Rebecca Oling. “Photos of
Plagiarism Files.” Purchase College, SUNY.
2011.