Graduating Seniors

You can keep your Zotero account and Zotero library after you graduate. However, if you originally signed up for Zotero using your Amherst email address, you should follow these steps to add a personal email address to your account:

1. Log in to your Zotero account
2. Click on your Zotero username in the upper right corner, then click "Settings"
3. On the Settings page, click the tab labeled "Account"
4. Scroll down to the section of the page labeled "Manage Email Addresses" and add a personal email address

This process will ensure that if you forget your password or otherwise get locked out of your Zotero account after graduating, you will have an active email address associated with your account so that you can reset your password.

Reducing space

Short on space after you change email addresses? A few things to try…

• Transfer ownership of old Group Libraries
• Store really large files elsewhere (personal Google Drive, Dropbox, or your computer)
• Purchase a personal subscription to Zotero
• Archive or delete folders of old files you don’t need
  • Hint: Look for files from classes outside your major/minor; look for duplicate files; look for files you added by accident that aren’t in a folder.
  • Hint: If you may want to use these citations in Zotero, Endnote, or Mendeley again in the future: export everything as an RIS file, and keep everything together (PDFs and the RIS file) in the same folder.

After you leave Amherst, you won't be able to access most of our databases, besides those where we can offer alumni access. If you have citations (in thesis sources, past research papers, past class assignments, and materials you are interested in reading) for materials in our online collections, you should consider downloading the PDFs for those citations if you plan on referring to them in the future. Remember that digitized material from the Amherst Archives & Special Collections is freely available to all in ACDC.

IT provides guidance on how to save/transition your files after graduating.