Below the main repository "My library" in the left column, you are now going to create your first collections by clicking the button "New collection".

You may create as many collections or sub-collections as you wish.

There are plenty of catalogs, scientific search engines and databases that allow you to collect references with Zotero. The servers on which these databases are hosted usually have Zotero translators : those piece of sotware help Zotero to recognize in a webpage the fields in which metadata are stored. If you are on a webpage that has no translator, at least, Zotero will collect basic information such as page title, name of the website, date, and URL.

In any case, to collect a reference, you just need to click on the Zotero's save button in your browser  , Note that this icon changes according to the type of the document that is displayed.

Most of scientific information providers allow metadata scraping with tools like Zotero or Mendeley

Reference 1

1. With Supernova, the Rennes 1 discovery tool, collect (with the Zotero collector you have installed in your browser) the document entitled "Une contre-histoire de l'Internet" by Sylvain Bergère in the "workshop Zotero" you just have created

2. check that all metadata are complete (Authors, title, publication title or publisher name, date...) and add the metadata you think are missing in the Zotero dashboard right column.

Reference 2

1. In our institutional archive platform, collect this document "L'économie de l'information à l'heure des "fake news" : quels scénarios d'évolution?" from Marc Bassoni and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, in the same collection "Zotero Workshop".

2. check that all metadata are complete (Authors, title, publication title or publisher name, date...) and add the metadata you think are missing in the Zotero dashboard right column

Référence 3

1. From this IFLA's webpage, collect this document "How to spot fake news?" from l'IFLA (International Federation of Libraries Assocciation), in the same collection.

2. Note that when you import a PDF in a collection, Zotero may fail to find the reference of this PDF (when the PDF does not have a DOI for instance). In this case, if you need to cite this document in your work, you will have to create the reference manually and attach the PDF to it. In order to creat this reference, click on this button

3. fill the required fields accordingly to bibliographic requirements (i.e for Vancouver, these requirements are avaiable here)

If you have collected references from library catalogs, you may have noticed some keywords in the right column in the "Tag" tab.

Please add two keywords to each item of your personal collection. These keywords may mention the topic of your items or you can specify its use (for instance : major reference, additional reference, further reading).

The keywords will appear below the collections in the left column.

Thus, you've discovered a new way to browse your library.

If you decide not to use these keywords, you may retrieve your references using the search box at the top-right of the center column.

Be aware that you can assign color to a keyword (just right click it). It will be easier to find it.

The 6th version of the software which was released in décember 2021 has a built-in PDF management tool.

Thanks to this improvement, you may with Zotero:

- highlight sentences or paragraphs in a PDF (with several colors)

- add comments on a PDF

- extract figures

extract highlighted text, comments and figures as annotations and make notes from that material. You may then import these notes in your draft, just as you did with references in the first Zotero versions.

You may also import these notes in markdown format or add references inside these notes linked to other references.

We suggest you to do the following exercise in order in order to get familiar with these new features :

1. search for the paper whose DOI is 10.1109/MCSE.2016.74

2. add a collection called Artificial Intelligence

3. Save both article (in PDF format) and its reference in Zotero inside this new collection

4. Add a tag "CPU growth" to this reference

5. highlight a sentence that seems important for you to memorize

6. extract this highlighted text as an annotation

7. Link the following comment to the paragraph that begins with " But kudos to AlphaGo aside..." :

     "The future of CPUs is likely to involve continued increases in performance through the use of new manufacturing technologies, as well as the integration of more cores and specialized processing units. Additionally, there may be a shift towards more energy-efficient designs and the use of artificial intelligence to optimize performance. However, it's also possible that new technologies such as quantum computing may eventually surpass the capabilities of traditional CPUs".

8. Add a tag "quantum computing" to this comment

9. Extract the comment as annotation and convert all annotations in one note.

10. In this note, after "surpass the capabilities of traditional CPUs", insert a reference to the paper whose DOI is 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.062334

11. Insert this note in your draft

12. Edit the bibliography of this note at the end of your draft