Zotero

Three roles within groups:

• Regular members
• Administrators
  • Can change group's public/private status, members' roles, and library settings
• Group owners
  • Can change group's public/private status, members' roles, library settings, and transfer ownership to another member

What are library settings?

• Control the group status
  • public or private
• Library Reading 
  • Who can see items in this group's library?
    • Anyone on the internet
    • Any group member
• Library Editing
  • Who can add, edit, and remove items from this group's library?
    • Any group member
    • Only group admins
• File Editing
  • Who can work with files stored in the group? 
    • Any group member
    • Only group admins
    • No group file storage (Not available when the group is public)

Within a group you are able to:

• Share your own work or sources you have discovered with others who are working in related areas
• Collaborate with colleagues, publicly or privately, on ongoing research
• Discover other people with similar interests and the sources they are citing

Types of groups:

• Private
• Public, Closed Membership
• Public, Open membership

*Information taken from the Zotero website*