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Using Zotero

Use Zotero to save and organize your citations. Collaborate with other users and generate bibliographies.

Add PDF files from your computer

To manually add a PDF for an item saved in your Zotero library, right click the item, click Add Attachment, and select File.

Right click an item in Zotero to attach a PDF file

Find Available PDF files (Open Access)

This will only work for open access PDFs. Click and select all citations that you want to find PDFs for. Right-Click on those selected citations to see the "Find Full Text" menu. Zotero will not always be able to find PDFs for articles that the library subscribes to, so for these you should add the PDF manually.

Highlight articles and click the "Find full text" option