READ ME - AM Knowledge Base - How-to user guide for the Zotero library

The library contains and categorises resources related to Adaptive Management and International Development, with some focus around the use of MEL to support it. At the time of writing the library contains 1907 resources and more than 1 Gigabyte of source documents. The documents include journal articles, books, reports, case-studies, toolkits, courses, blogposts, websites, and other grey literature. The resources are flexibly organised within a hierarchy of categories and sub-categories, which facilitate browsing and access. The knowledge base can be queried using Zotero’s powerful search functionalities, which not only include bibliographic fields such as title, authors, publisher, tags and notes, but also search within the full source text of the pdf documents. The Knowledge based can be accessed in different ways: • Through the user-friendly web interface. https://adaptdev.info • Using Zotero’s web interface. No need to register unless you want to access the pdf sources. • Using Zotero app, available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This enables users to keep an updated copy of the library in their computer and get access to all the reference managing system’s functionalities and source documents. This illustrated “user guide” provides how-to instructions on how to use the library.