Connect Zotero to a Project
You can manage and collaborate on your Zotero references directly from your OSF projects! This help guide will walk you through how to connect your personal or group libraries to your projects. If Zotero is already configured in your OSF account, you may have trouble viewing your Group Libraries. See Reauthorize Zotero for help. The Zotero add-on allows you to connect external content to OSF. This connection does not store or back up this content on OSF. If registering your project with Zotero connected, Zotero content will not be registered.
Enable Zotero in your project
First, open your project, then click the Add-ons tab in the navigation bar.
You will be taken to the "Add-ons" page for the project. Where you will select if you are looking for an “additional storage” add-on or a “citation manager” tool. In this case, you will select “Citation Manager” and then click “Connect” under Mendeley
The Zotero terms will appear. Read the terms, then click the Confirm button.
Setting up a new Zotero Account
Because other contributors can connect their add-on accounts to a project you can distinguish your account with a different name. For example, naming your account “Your NAME_ADD-ON” Allows you to distinguish accounts from your collaborators. When you are finished naming click “Authorize”
Authorization of Access to Add-on
After clicking “authorize”, a new window tab will appear to allow you to sign in on the selected Add-on. Log in with your username and Password used on that add-on site, not your OSF account.
The Add-on will then ask you if you would like to confirm the connection of your Add-on account to your OSF Account. In this case, Click “Connect account” . In the Case of Zotero, you have the ability to “edit the permission” settings or “accept the Default” setting of the connection.
You will then be returned to your OSF project, Where you can select the Add-on account you would like to connect to your OSF project. Click the small circle next to the account name, and then click “authorize”
Confirm the connection of the account by clicking “confirm”
Select which folders you would like to connect by clicking the “all documents” link or using the select bubble for specific files. Then click “save”
You have now connected your Add-on library to your OSF project and will be returned to the Add-on selection page. Your folder will be connected to your project on the project overview page.
