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Your Users

Why should they use Zotero?

Name: Ryan

Role: High School Junior

Goal: Write 5 page paper

Software Skills:Word, iTunes, Web Browsers

Currently using:

Word and Online Citation Form

What benefit can Zotero provide?

Zotero will allow him to generate a bibliography for his

paper without manually entering his information into the

online citation tool he had previously used.

Which of Zotero’s features matter?

Grabbing books from Amazon and Library Catalog

Drag and drop bibliography

Quick installation

How/where can we reach him

His teachers give guidance on tools

His school librarian gives research guidance on projects

His principle makes school wide software decisions

He visits his local library for help finding sources

High School Research Paper

Name: Mary

Role: College Chemistry Major

Goal: 30 Page Research Paper

Software Skills:Word, iTunes, Web Browsers

Currently using:

Keeps notes in Word docs


Zotero will help her generate a bibliography, but more

importantly it can help her organize and annotate her

research as she works on her project.


Grabbing articles from Web of Science

Integration with Microsoft Word

Organization tools (tags, collections)

Note taking tools

How/where can we reach her

Class presentation from Chemistry Liaison Librarian

College writing center workshops

Professor hands out requirements for research projects

She searches the library website for recommendations

College Chemistry Student Paper

Name: Sandy

Role: Professor of English Lit

Goal: Write 400 page book

Software Skills:Word, Internet Explorer,

Currently using:

3x5 note cards


Zotero can make it easier to organize the hundreds of

references and notes Sandy needs to use to write her

book.


Grabbing items from a range of places

Integration with Microsoft Word


Note taking tools


Scholarly newsletters

Presentations to faculty

Interaction with liaison librarian

Writing a Book

Name: Janet

Role: History Department Chair

Goal: Track faculty productivity

Software Skills:Word, Firefox, Blogger

Currently using:

Faculty members email her

Word docs once a year.


Instead of faculty manually writing up their research they

can add their publications to a group library. Janet can

then simply copy the library, or use it’s RSS feed to have

constantly updated reports on Faculty productivity.


Manually adding items

Zotero groups

Generating reports and bibliographies


Campus administrators often set policy for entire

campus

She subscribes to various H-Net groups

She reads the AHA’s Perspectives monthly magazine

Campus Center for Teaching Excellence workshops

Faculty Productivity

Name: Paul

Role: Linguistics Professor

Goal: More collaborative syllabus

Software Skills:Blogs, Wikis, RSS,

Currently using:

Uses closed course management

system to share syllabi with

students


A Zotero group can provide the perfect opportunity for a

more collaborative syllabus he can add items and allow

students to create collections with research on their own

projects.


Zotero groups

Grabbing resources from JSTOR

Zotero’s reporting features


Reads other professors blogs

Center for Teaching Excellence Workshops

Department brown bags

Faculty newsletter

Collaborative Syllabus

Name: Meredith

Role: Reference Librarian

Goal: Helping researchers

Software Skills:Blogs, Wikis, RSS,

Currently using:

Emails items from library

catalog to students and faculty


Zotero groups offer an easy way for her to share research

items with classes or individual researchers.


Grabbing from library catalog and journal databases

Zotero groups



Library blogs

Train the trainer workshops

Library list servs

Guiding Research



How/where can we reach Them

Potential User:

Name:

Role:

Goal:

Software Skills:

Currently using:

Convincing Decision Makers

10 reasons to adopt Zotero

Users overwhelmingly report that Zotero is easy to

use and intuitive. After watching a five-minute

introductory video on Zotero, many users have

more than enough knowledge to accomplish basic

research tasks.

1) Easy-To-Use Means Easy-To-Support

Say goodbye to expensive escalating licensing

fees. Adopt Zotero and pay nothing. Not only can

you use Zotero for free, but all the documentation

at Zotero.org is yours to reuse and repurpose. The

support community at Zotero.org provides an

experienced responsive community to support the

software and assist you in your efforts.

2) Save Money With Free Open Source Software

Zotero is already recommended by

more than a hundred institutions from around the

world, including MIT, Stanford, and Yale. Zotero’s

track record of success at these leading institutions

underscores its ease of use and elegance as a

research management tool.

3) Hundreds of Institutions Recommend Zotero to Their Faculty and Students

Users overwhelmingly report that Zotero is easy to

use and intuitive. After watching a five-minute

introductory video on Zotero, many users have

more than enough knowledge to accomplish basic

research tasks.

4) A Single Research Management Solution For Every User, Everywhere

Zotero was selected as the best reference

management tool at CiteFest 2008 by

Northwestern University’s Library and Academic

Technologies group. That’s right, better than other,

more costly, software alternatives. Zotero is among

the “Best Free Software” available, as voted by

PC Magazine in both 2007 and 2008. Zotero was

also named Best Instructional Software of 2007

by the Information Technology and Politics Section

of the American Political Science Association.

5) Did We Mention It’s Award Winning?

Zotero’s open and extensible nature means that, beyond

offering a powerful resource to your students at a no cost,

Zotero also offers a potential avenue for your institution to

make lasting contributions to the open-source community.

For example, the University of Michigan’s School of

Information recently won funding from the Institute for

Museum and Library Services to launch a new million-dollar

information literacy game, Bibliobouts, on top of Zotero.

6) An Opportunity For Your Institution to Leave Its Mark

Everything your users do with Zotero is theirs in perpetuity.

As a project developed by scholars with a commitment to

openness and with a focus on the end-user, Zotero makes no

claim of ownership or control over any of your users’ work

with Zotero, and invites users to share and collaborate

without fear of their work being co-opted.

7) Your Users’ Data is Theirs, Now and Forever

Licensed research management platforms may

provide your users with functional services, but,

chances are, your software license ends when your

students graduate. Shouldn’t your users have

access to their research after graduation?

Zotero is free to everyone; that means your

students will always have access to their

collections.

8 ) Give Your Users Something They Can Take With Them

Zotero is committed to data portability and interoperability

through adherence to existing open standards. Software

makers which employ site-licensing fees have a vested

interest in locking users into their own proprietary formats.

Zotero makes it as easy as possible to migrate data to and

from other applications.

9) Adherence to Open Standards Offers Flexibility

Zotero runs in more than thirty languages, so chances are

good that most of the languages spoken on your campus are

available. This sort of linguistic agnosticism means that

Zotero runs smoothly for people all around the world. Any

languages not already supported can easily be added

through the BabelZilla project.

10) Give Your Users The Freedom To Work In Their Native Language

Identifying Local Partners

Building your Zotero Coalition

Name: Doug

Goal: Streamline research

group’s work.


Zotero can become a center wide platform for sharing and

tracking research work.


Zotero Groups

Zotero Feeds

General Zotero basics


Send him an email

Workshops for administrators

Put something in the campus newsletter

Research Center Director

Name: Mindy

Goals: develop, implement, and

assist instructional approaches

and methods


Center’s for Teaching Excellence are always looking for

new strategies to improve teaching at their institution.

Zotero can be part of a campus wide initiative.


General Zotero features

Potential for Zotero groups as Teaching Tool

Report functionality


Send her an email

Invite her to a train the trainer institutional workshop

Instruction Coordinator Center for Teaching

Name: Amile

Goal: Help students become

better researchers and writers


Writing Center Tutors frequently guide students through

the research and writing process from the very beginning.

Setting students up with a solid system for organizing and

annotating helps them create better final products.



Integration with Word

Zotero Groups


Note taking tools


Writing Center Director

Campus newsletter

Writing Center Tutor

Name: Janis

Role: Sociology 101 Professor

Goal: Scaffold 150 students

through a research project


Getting students to use a research tool like Zotero at the

start of their academic careers can set them up with skills

to take through their entire time at the University. While

teaching methods why not teach tools too?



Drag and drop bibliography

Quick installation


Provosts office frequently sets campus wide initiatives

Academic department can make it a part of the course

Blogs about best practices for teaching

Campus newsletter

Send them an email

Lead Faculty Research Intensive Course

Name: David

Goal: Helping students make use

of the library’s digital resources


Many libraries are already offering instructional sessions

on various research software. These are some of the most

natural Zotero evangelists


Compatibility with Library resources

Everything their specific user community needs


Local Zotero workshop

Send them an email

Library Instructional Technologist

Name:

Goal:




Potential Zotero Partner

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