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Fun with Zotero inserting citations and bibliographies
2014/11/17
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- If you can install Zotero’s word processor add-ins (for LibreOffice Writer or MS-Word).:
- Here are the self-explanatory tool tips of the command buttons for the MS-Word add-in:
- Here is the add-in in action, inserting first one, than multiple citations, followed by generation of a bibliography:
- Here are the self-explanatory tool tips of the command buttons for the MS-Word add-in:
- If you cannot, you can still use the “create bibliography from items” of Zotero (which itself can be run under portable Firefox from a USB stick – no install needed at all). Here is a brief example and insert those into your writing;
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bibliographies, MS-Word, zotero
Fun with Zotero managing bibliographic references
2014/11/17
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- Curation:
- Deduplication:
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bibliographies, MS-Word, zotero
Fun with Zotero downloading instead of typing bibliographic information
2014/11/17
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- This ain’t your grand daddy’s citation manager anymore, restricted to the library IT infrastructure and the venerable Z39.50 protocol. Zotero can turn any online resource you browse into bibliographic information, saving you hours of distracting typing, for rather starting note taking immediately – also ideally done for later reuse in Zotero’s reference manager.
- Better even if Zotero can manage also your PDF downloads, like in this example:
– including note-taking: Note that Zotero comes with a PDF markup extension.
Categories: service-is-library
bibliographies, MS-Word, zotero
Fun with Zotero downloading entire reference collections
2014/11/17
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- Where the Zotero address bar shows you, instead of a (blue) book or (black-and-white) manuscript icon (= journal article) a yellow Manila folder, you can download a batch of references at once.
- Prerequisites:
- The web page with the bibliographic collection needs to feature machine-readable metadata. COinS and DOI are common standards. Try and right-click on the Manila-folder (in FireFox, currently not supported in Chrome), you may have mote than one option:
- Zotero needs to have a “translator” (see the full, automatically generated list of all Zotero translator) for this site.
- You could start with checking whether you can download a base bibliography for your topic from its Wikipedia article:
- Limitations
- YMMV: Not all Wikipedia articles are marked up with machine-readable metadata (but I assume more and more, even though there is also FUD over shifting standards like microformats, microdata).
- The automation seems not forgiving if it runs into an error:
- I have not seen any useful exception information during such failures (there is a Zotero debug mode, though), so trying to get overcome this obstacle is an exercise in trial and error:
- Limitations
- Other most useful sites (at least if you are not affiliated with an institution of higher ed) are
- Amazon: (I actually ran into problems in this example, not a crash, but so slow that it appeared to me the download was hanging or had failed. So this is only a scaled down attempt:)
- Google Books:
- Google Scholar: Where authors provide their actual articles, Zotero shines even more: Here the Zotero translator is able to download also any (well, most!) attached PDF’s.
- Amazon: (I actually ran into problems in this example, not a crash, but so slow that it appeared to me the download was hanging or had failed. So this is only a scaled down attempt:)
- The web page with the bibliographic collection needs to feature machine-readable metadata. COinS and DOI are common standards. Try and right-click on the Manila-folder (in FireFox, currently not supported in Chrome), you may have mote than one option:
Categories: service-is-library, training
bibliographies, bibliography, coins, doi, metadata, MS-Word, zotero
Web browser popup blocker exceptions need configuring
2014/04/09
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- Which computers
- This I found on the Reception desk
- but isn’t that then also wrong on all student pcs which have the same base image?
- Which exceptions missing: I noticed immediately:
- outlook.com
- www.uncc.edu should read uncc.edu
- Which browsers
- Example is IE9,
- But are others different?
MS-Exchange and Outlook enable managing scheduling of 100+ functional resources
2014/03/31
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High-level Reporting: ![clip_image004[5]](https://plagwitz.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/clip_image0045.jpg "clip_image004[5]")
Also, it is easy to manage calendars by group calendars, e.g.
![clip_image002[5]](https://plagwitz.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/clip_image0025.jpg "clip_image002[5]")
Creation of calendar groups is also easy via the outlook address book:
![clip_image006[5]](https://plagwitz.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/clip_image0065.jpg "clip_image006[5]")
It is Outlook (Desktop) currently only (not Exchange 2010 OWA) that allows for High-level Reporting. And even here, there are limitations:
![clip_image007[5]](https://plagwitz.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/clip_image0075.png "clip_image007[5]")
Protected: LRC old media inventory for spring cleaning
2014/03/07
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