Answered By: Caltech Research Librarians
Last Updated: Oct 16, 2025     Views: 207

Quick Search is located in the top, right corner of the center panel in Zotero Standalone. Quick Search has three options.

  1. Title, Creator, or Year

    • The fastest search option if you have a very large library

Screenshot of Zotero highlighting Title, Creator, Year in the Quick Search box drop down menu.

  1. All Fields and Tags

    • Includes fields like publication, abstract, series, volume, issue, etc. and tags

Screenshot of Zotero highlighting All Fields and Tags in the Quick Search box drop down menu.

  1. Everything.

    • Includes full text PDFs (unless they’re image-only)

Screenshot of Zotero highlighting the Quick Search box with Everything selected and showing a PDF preview.

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