Making the first manual reference and the first library

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Making a manual reference In zotero desktop, choose file –> New item –> Book

Insert the data for this book:

Title: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Format: Hardcover – Illustrated, May 2, 2017 by Robert M. Sapolsky (Author)

Making a Library Go to Zotero desktop and choose File –> New collection –> Name the collection

Make a “New library” New library–> This will send you to the Zotero cloud solution. Make your own username and password. Find an adeqate group name. Choose group type and settings, and save the settings. Go back to the desktop to see how it now looks. If you cannot see the group right away, try the sync option.

Download single articles Download the following references to Zotero. Check that everything is downloaded correctly in the Zotero app, and then cite the source in the text editor. Make the bibliography. Note that the last one is a an open access book. Click on the PDF icon where Zotero icon normally are. Check the item in the zotero app. Dod you manage to get all of these into your library?

Downloading references from research databases There are various for profit databases held in subscriptions by the University Libraries. We reccomend those who has the privilege to try these. Carpentry is about open databases and open access. We have therefore chosen the databases below. Feel free to use other databases.

If you do not have your own academic problem, you may use this one: “Many people in the world live with water scarcity. How is this problem solved in varouis regions, and what has the scientific community suggested in previous research?”

Try to downlowd at least 500 references directly to your new group. Find the export solution for the relevant database. We recommend the RIS format for Zotero. Open/ import the file in Zotero. Put the references in the group you made.

Look at your references, mark 20 of them, and use the function “find pdf”. You may use “fn lock” to mark several references, –> right click –> find available pdfs. This solution will work better it you are on a university campus with subscriptions to academic journals. If using it from the home office, it will import open access resources.

Overview

Questions

How do you write a lesson using Markdown and sandpaper?

Objectives

Have all the installations ready on your PC/ Mac
Be technically ready to start working with Zotero

Introduction

This is a lesson created via The Carpentries Workbench. It is written in Pandoc-flavored Markdown for static files and R Markdown for dynamic files that can render code into output. Please refer to the Introduction to The Carpentries Workbench for full documentation.

What you need to know is that there are three sections required for a valid Carpentries lesson:

questions are displayed at the beginning of the episode to prime the learner for the content.
objectives are the learning objectives for an episode displayed with the questions.
keypoints are displayed at the end of the episode to reinforce the objectives.

Challenge 1: Can you do it?

How did you organize your references the last time you wrote an assignment.

Endnore
I did it manually
Zotero

Output

the right answer should be c) Zotero

Challenge 2: how do you nest solutions within challenge blocks?

Show me the solution

You can add a line with at least three colons and a solution tag.

Figures

You can use standard markdown for static figures with the following syntax:

![optional caption that appears below the figure](figure url){alt='alt text for accessibility purposes'}

You belong in The Carpentries!

Math

One of our episodes contains $\LaTeX$ equations when describing how to create dynamic reports with {knitr}, so we now use mathjax to describe this:

$\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}$ becomes: $\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}$

Cool, right?

Key Points

Use .md files for episodes when you want static content
Use .Rmd files for episodes when you need to generate output
Run sandpaper::check_lesson() to identify any issues with your lesson
Run sandpaper::build_lesson() to preview your lesson locally