[One Speaker] 

[Zotero.org’s download page is shown open in a browser.]

Speaker: Now that you've downloaded Zotero and the Zotero Connector, we can start using Zotero. The first thing you want to do is go back to Zotero.org and click on the register button [the cursor points to the URL, then selects “Register” in the top right corner]. So you're going to register a username. You can choose whatever username that you want, put your email, confirm your email, a password, and register the cursor points to each field as she says them]. The reason that you want to do this is that means you can sync your Zotero account across multiple computers. It's nice to be able to use it in other computers, as well.

So when you're, after you're done doing that, you want to open up Zotero. And this is what Zotero looks like. [The cursor drags the Zotero application onto the screen from off the recording. There is a list of many different articles and resources.] So you can see I have a lot of different references saved. [She clicks through many folders that appear in the left menu of Zotero.] These are the folders. So these are the folders that I've made that I save my articles in. This is my current PhD thesis that I'm working on [she clicks on this folder]. You can see I have a lot of different articles about air pollution. And you can also make sub folders.

So the first thing that you want to do is this is your library here [the cursor points to the “Library” folder at the top of the left menu], maybe create what is called a ‘New Collection’, and that is a folder [she selects the “New Collection” folder icon at the top left]. So I'm going to call this BYU-Idaho so you have an idea of what I'm doing. [A small window appears with the title “New Collection” and a field to type a name for the collection. She types “BYU-Idaho”, then clicks “OK”.] And there's my new folder, and I don't have any articles in it whatsoever [she points to the BYU-Idaho folder now in the left menu, then the empty “Title” section showing there are no articles].

Now here's the easy way to do it. [She goes back to the browser and has the BYU-Idaho Mckay Library open. It is open to the PUBH 391 resources.] At BYU-Idaho you have an access to the Mckay Library, and this is where you can find articles to use. So one of the things that I'm going to do is I'm going to search PubMed [she clicks on the PubMed link and it opens to a search page] and I'm now I'm able to search the PubMed. So maybe one of the things that I want to search on is “sugary drinks and obesity” [she types this in the search bar on the PubMed page]. And I’ll do a search on that [she clicks on “SEARCH”]. And here's one they have on “Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer.” [The cursor points to this article title.] Maybe I'm not looking really for risk of cancer. [She continues scrolling down the page.] Here we go: “Intake of sugary sweetened beverages and weight gain.” This looks like a great article. I'm going to click on that article and it's going to bring it up here. [She clicks on the article and the article opens.] 

Now the first thing you're going to do is you're going to click on this little paper icon [the cursor points to the paper icon that appears in the extensions menu in the top right of the browser], sometimes it's a z depending on what browser you're using, and I'm going to save it to BYU-Idaho. [She selects the paper icon and a menu appears to choose where to save the article. The automatically listed item is the folder “BYU-Idaho”.] Now I can choose different libraries [she clicks on the drop-down menu to show the other library options], but I do want it to be BYU-Idaho. And I'm just going to hit ‘return’ [she hits this button on her keyboard] and I'm going to go back again [she clicks the back arrow on the browser in the top left] and I'm going to see– oh, here's another one: “Dietary patterns and childhood obesity risk.” [She scrolls down the page a little, then the cursor hovers over that article.] That one looks pretty good [she clicks on and opens that article], so I'm also going to save that, as well. [The cursor clicks on the Zotero extension (the paper icon), checks that it is the right library (BYU-Idaho), then hits ‘return’ on her keyboard.] 

Now, while you're in here, one of the things that you could also do is for like for this one [she navigates to and reopens the first article she clicked on], I could automatically go to this link, the free article link she clicks on this button that appeared to the right of the article], and then download that article to read later and print it or download it to my computer because there's a pdf right here [the cursor points to the Format link “PDF (350K)”].

So now I've saved two articles. So, if I bring back up Zotero [she brings the Zotero application onto the screen again], there are the two articles that I've saved. [The two articles appear in the “Title” list in the BYU-Idaho folder.] Here's the first one, it even gives me the abstract [she clicks on it, then scrolls down the info/abstract that appears on the right]. Here's the second one, there's the abstract [she does the same thing with the second article].

One of the things you should do is go into module 3 and look at the assignment for the literature review grid. [She brings an Excel spreadsheet onto the screen of the Literature Review Grid assignment in the “Example and Instructions” section.] This gives you an idea of what you can write in your notes.

[She also brings Zotero back onto the screen.]

So let's say I have “Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity.” So if I want to add a note [she clicks on the first article, clicks the “Notes” tab on the right, then clicks “Add”], what is the argument or main finding? [She types the things she says.] So I could put “Argument: Sugar sweetened beverages contribute…” and “Evidence Used:” and I haven't read this article yet, so I am just going to put in evidence say, “daily intake of beverages compared to weight.” Let's say that's the evidence they used. And then “Other Notes.”

All right, just some of the things that you can put in here that might be good. And you can do the same for each of these [she points to the other article]. When you are done doing that, this automatically saves to Zotero so there's nothing that you have to do to save anything and it automatically saves to your Zotero account. [She closes out of the assignment spreadsheet.]

The other thing that we could do is add tags. So if I look at this article on the intake of sugar sweetened beverages, I can go to tags. [She selects this article, then clicks on the “Tags” tab.] These are the tags that are already associated with the article. It automatically gives you tags. So if you want to add a new tag, you can do that, as well. But a lot of these are pretty good. There's Adult, Adolescent, Beverages, Carbonated Beverages, Dietary Sucrose.

This also gives you some ideas looking at these tags. What you might do a search in PubMed or another database to get more articles. Remember also that you can look at the references of these articles to find more articles as well.

In the next video I will show you how to use Zotero to use it inside your paper.

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