Organizing your research doesn’t have to be hard.
You work hard to get your important ideas and great research out into the world. If you’re like most researchers (hello!), you’ve saved your important research sources in several different places, including the pile of papers on your desk, the mess of books on your floor, and the homemade file system on your hard drive. You might have a collection of webpages, podcasts, newspaper articles, books, journal articles, archival documents thrown together without rhyme or reason. Maybe you’ve stored your sources on your work computer and your laptop and some of your sources are also saved on a flash drive for safekeeping that you now can’t find. Without a system to organize and index your research files and sources, trying to find that one critical piece of information you need to finish your article or book chapter turns into a frustrating search that might take hours.
You’ve got more important things to do with your time.
where is that citation?
I just know it’s around here somewhere.
Get organized. Find your stuff.
Picture this instead.
You need to find a citation. You search for it in a database using keywords, tags, titles, authors, year of publication or anything else. And there it is, with all your notes attached. Done.
Collect, save, sort, and cite your research with a free and open-source database made for researchers like you.
But here’s the thing.
No one ever really teaches you how to organize your research.
Learning a new software system to organize your research takes time, energy, and can feel pretty intimidating if you’re trying to learn on your own. Why not learn from an expert who’s used it for years?
Bring my Zotero workshop to your colleagues at your institution!
What you get
Overview of citation management practices to identify your needs and how to get the most out of citation software.
Live instruction about installation and setup to minimize the learning curve and get you up and running with Zotero fast.
6 hours of practical hands-on training and assistance to learn to save, search, sort, and cite your research.
$2500
Why me?
I turned to Zotero in 2009 as a graduate student when I found myself drowning in hundreds of research sources and desperate for a system to organize them. Zotero is one of my favorite and most-used software programs for research.
I’ve become a vocal advocate for free and open-source software projects that help academics become more efficient, productive, and joyful researchers and writers.