Determining how you will organize your collections is a non-trivial decision. The good news is that Zotero allows you to assign references to multiple folders simultaneously. So a journal that belongs in the "K-12_prep" collection and the "FIELD_ex-function" collection can be assigned to both by simply dragging the entry into the desired folder. Any changes you make to a reference in one collection will be made across all collections; so you don't need to worry about version control issues. References can be moved to the trash altogether, or just removed from a given collection but kept within Zotero. Any references not assigned to a collection will be found in the Unfiled Items
folder.
Items in your My Library
and subordinate collections are visible only to you. However, the platform also supports group libraries that can be shared with other Zotero users. To create a shared Library, select New Group
from the drop down icon (larger folder) from Fig. 17 above. This will take you to the Zotero website as shown in Fig 18. You will need to log in using your credentials and make some selections about the public visibility of the group.