Tag Archives: Zotero

Sharing Your Research in the Cloud

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Image of a hot air balloon floating among clouds

Illustration from Voyages aeriens by James Glaisher, 1870

Have you ever been working on a research project with a group of people and wished for a better way to share your work online, or “in the cloud”? Well, a number of tools exist for just this purpose – including the two reference managers I told you about in my last couple of Library Hacks posts. In my final post on these tools, I’ll discuss how both Zotero and Mendeley offer ways to help you collaborate and communicate with colleagues to make sharing research easier. So far, these tools may have seemed pretty similar, but this is where you will see some distinct differences between the two. Continue reading →

Easy Citing While You’re Writing

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Remington typewriter

Remington typewriter from early 1900s trade catalog

Old typewriters are pretty cool, but did you ever try adding footnotes to a paper using one? Not so easily done. Thank goodness for modern innovations!

In my last Library Hacks post, I introduced Zotero and Mendeley, two free “reference managers” that help you collect and store all kinds of materials – from  PDF files to book citations to webpages – in your own online library. Now we’ll look at how these same tools can help you add footnotes, citations and bibliographies to a paper as you’re writing it. And it’s a snap! Continue reading →

Free Tools to Help You Tame Unruly Information

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Here’s the latest post in our series, Library Hacks, where we take a look at cool and interesting online resources from the Smithsonian Libraries and the cyberworld at large.

We librarians are all about the organization of information. It’s what we live for! (Well, that might be overstating it a bit.) So when we find great tools for keeping track of info/data/stuff, we get pretty excited. While you may not have the same level of enthusiasm for this that we do, you still can find such tools useful for everything from doing research on a topic of interest, to writing a report for school or work, to collecting your favorite recipes from foodie websites. Continue reading →

Meet Miranda Metcalf

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MirandaMiranda Metcalf is the new intern from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art / National Portrait Gallery Library. Miranda recently graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Bachelor's degree in philosophy.

For her internship, Miranda will be working on a Zotero resource bibliography for researching portraiture. She will also be working in the library's art and artist vertical files and on a serials project.

Miranda is hoping to go to graduate school to study art history and museum studies. She enjoys baking, running, finding new and amazing music, and spending time with animals.

The Libraries and the National Portrait Gallery are excited to have Miranda join us for the fall and we look forward to blogging about her work later.—Doug Litts

Scholars and the Everywhere Library

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Dan Cohen

“Scholars and the Everywhere Library”

September 24, 10:30-noon
Smithsonian Institution Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Room 3027

1100 Jefferson Drive,
SW, Washington, D.C.

 Dan Cohen is the second speaker in the Libraries’ 2009 Lecture Series. Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton, a master’s from Harvard, and a doctorate from Yale. His lecture will pose the questions: How can libraries best help researchers, when the very conception of the “library” for most scholars has changed from a physical location to a wide variety of online resources? Does this transition to the digital realm open up new avenues of research and new services that libraries can provide to meet those research needs? Cohen will speak about new possibilities for search, discovery, recommendations, and analysis that a modern library might be able to provide to the next generation of scholars. There will be a webcast of the lecture.

Dancohen2Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for History and New Media. His own research is in European and American intellectual history, the history of science (particularly mathematics), and the intersection of history and computing. He is co-author of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and has published articles and book chapters on the history of mathematics and religion, the teaching of history, and the future of history in a digital age in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rethinking History. He is an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship.

At the Center for History and New Media he co-directed, among other projects, the September 11 Digital Archive and Echo (Exploring and Collecting History Online),a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. He has developed software for scholars, teachers, and students, including the popular Zotero  research tool, and received IMLS and Alfred P. Sloan funding for the development of Omeka. For more information, check out Cohen’s blog. For questions about attending the lecture, please contact Marcia Adams.—Liz O'Brien