Get ahead with your research assistant tool (Zotero)

Zotero is a research assistant tool that helps you not only manage your references, but collect and organize your research material, notes, and annotations. With Zotero you can easily highlight and write notes as you read, and retrieve your highlighted sections, notes, and summaries when you need them.

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This course is a part of HF's PhD week.

Learning outcomes

Bring your laptop and together we will explore the many ways Zotero can assist your research, importing digital copies of your research material, even scanning and importing your own research notes.

With Zotero you can highlight your PDFs with a digital marker, tag text sections based on topics, write annotations in the margin, and write item attached or standalone notes.

You can easily retrieve tagged sections and generate reports with your highlighted text sections, annotations, and notes in Zotero. Reports are a helpful research tool for gathering summaries of key points in your research material. 

The third course hour will provide optional time to practice and get help working with the tool.

Registration

The course is open to PhD fellows, completion grant holders, and post-doctoral fellows at the Faculty of Humanities, other UiO faculties, and external PhD fellows. Registration opens on October 1 and priority is given to PhDs and postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities. We ask that PhDs and postdocs from other Faculties at UiO, and other applicants, wait until on October 15 to register. Registration closes when the course has reached its maximum number of participants.

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Practical information

Please bring your laptop with Zotero installed. This workshop requires some experience using Zotero to import references. 

Working methods

Demonstration with practical examples and exercises. Instruction will be in English, unless everyone is competent in Norwegian, and we can also answer questions in Norwegian.  

Target group

PhDs and postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities.

Teachers

Anne Sæbø, PhD with Team Zotero colleague from the University Library

For help and questions about Zotero, you can reach us and our entire Zotero team at zotero-guru@ub.uio.no.   

Published Sep. 6, 2024 9:36 PM - Last modified Jan. 5, 2026 3:36 PM