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Collecting Your Sources

Information on how to collect your sources in preparation for research assignments. Topics covered include annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, and citation management tools.

Zotero

Zotero is an open-source reference management tool that works on Windows, Apple and Linux. It allows you to:

  • Collect bibliographic information (extracts metadata) on books, journal articles, videos and other resources from library resources, databases, and free sites.
  • Collect PDFs, file, images for each citation/reference in your library.
  • Create a bibliography and in-text citations in a variety of reference styles in a Word or OpenOffice document.
  • Sync among computers and the cloud.
  • Create Groups to share citations, collection, notes and tags with colleagues.

Download Zotero free of charge here. We suggest downloading it to the computer or device you will be using for your research.

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