Zotero is a tool for organizing, citing, and annotating your readings and other research materials.
The Swarthmore Libraries now subscribe to Zotero Institution. Current Swarthmore users now have unlimited cloud storage for documents in Zotero. You'll have access to this storage as long as you have a current Swarthmore.edu email account.
If you already have a Zotero account, add your Swarthmore.edu email to your account to access free storage.
How can you use Zotero?
To learn more about Zotero features, take a look at the TriCo Guide to Zotero.
Personalized Zotero support is available at Swarthmore. You can ask a subject librarian for help with Zotero or email librarian@swarthmore.edu.
Error message? You may encounter an error when installing Zotero Connector for Chrome. If this happens, sign out of your Swarthmore Google account and then install the Connector. You can sign back into your Swarthmore account after installing.
Consider adding personal (non-Swarthmore) email as well, in case you lose access to your Swarthmore email.
Zotero's proxy redirection feature can cause you to have problems accessing Kanopy, The Atlantic, and other library resources that use Swarthmore's single sign-on to login.
Who does this apply to? When you install the Zotero Connector for Chrome or Firefox, proxy redirection gets enabled by default. (Safari users don't need to worry about this.)
How do you turn off proxy redirection?