If you are like me you have a million research projects going on at the same time in various stages of completion. No matter what stage of the process you may be in your current project, one thing is always driving us - the literature. When academics say "literature" we aren't talking about the books I am reading my daughter every night. Most often we are talking about peer-reviewed sources, like journal articles. Having easy access to journal articles and citations is necessary for efficient, beast researcher mode. This summer I am not teaching, so my goal is to be in this mode the whole time. Writing a literature reviews is everyone’s favorite part of research right? I personally struggle with keeping track of articles that I find and piecing them together in meaningful ways. Recently our e-learning center at VSU had a training on how to use Zotero . This is a free citation management system that I started to use back in graduate school (around 2009) and stopped usi...