ENG BC 3160y English Colloquim: Englightment

Zotero is a free citation management program that helps you collect and organize your research information.

It can help you build personal library of source information from articles, books, documents, web pages, and more.  This personal library of sources can work with your word processing tool to format a paper in your choice of style.

• Save citations from databases, web sites, and library catalogs
• Manage, tag, and organize citations into collections
• Cite sources as you write and create reference lists in a wide variety of styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, ASA, Vancouver, etc.)
• Attach PDFs, images, web page snapshots, reading notes, and more to citations in your collection
• Share Zotero libraries with others using Zotero groups 
• Mark up PDFs and EPUBs with highlights, notes, and image annotations

Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) to limit, broaden, or define your search. A good researcher should know how to do a Boolean Search.

AND: Using AND narrows a search by combining terms.
OR: Using OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you're looking for.
NOT: Using NOT will narrow a search by exclusion. (Some search engines, like Google, recognize the minus (-) symbol, instead of the word NOT)

Asterix * For example, therap* will search for therapy, therapies, therapist, therapists, therapeutic, etc.

Quotations: Placing quotations around a specific phrase will help you narrow results in order to find information containing that exact wording.