Zotero and the Databases

Go to http://www.zotero.org

What will Zotero do:

• Automatically manage your references, insert and update them as you write and produce comprehensive and flexible bibliographies in all known formats

  • Video : Install Microsoft Word Plugin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQzb3RhMds

  • Video : Insert Citations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imSxa5MbXrc

• Extract and organise your full-text data, making it easier to write and review your work comprehensively

• Collaborate freely with colleagues and students

• Build very powerful libraries

• Forget nothing …

What you need to do:

• Understand Open Source Translators (sometimes life is easy)

  • No Translator? (sometimes it is not)

• With or without a Zotero translator, always ensure that your bibliographic records are as accurate as they will later need to be;

  • To begin, select the right Zotero Document Type

  • Author, Date, Place, Publication, Page

• Ensure that you attach the full-text object (pdf, image, web page) of the source you are referencing to its Bibliographic parent as you capture it. You will forget or lose it otherwise

• Always Sync your database

Open Databases

• Google Scholar

  • http://scholar.google.com Z

• National Archives

  • http://www.national.archives.gov.za Z?

  • Manually unbundling files to the document level

• DISA Digital Innovation South Africa (Struggle Documents)

  • http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za

  • Frequently off-line

• Internet Archives ***

  • http://www.archive.org Z

  • Strong on the 19^th Century

• British Parliamentary Record (1803 - 2005)

  • http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/

• Wits WiredSpace

  • http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za

• Historical Papers ATOM Database

  • http://hpra-atom.wits.ac.za/atom-2.1.0/index.php

• Pirate repositories ***

  • http://gen.lib.rus.ec

Closed Databases (All available through https://www.wits.ac.za/library/online-resources/databases)

• Jstor & Aluka ***

  • http://www.jstor.org Z?

• SAMedia Archives in Sabinet Reference > SA News > SAMedia

  • http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_media

• Rand Daily Mail

  • http://www.infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=HN-SARDM

• Lexis Nexis (1000s of international newspapers)

  • http://0-www.lexisnexis.com.innopac.wits.ac.za/HOTTOPICS/LNACADEMIC/