Hello there,

Thank you so much for all the work you all do and help you provide!

In short, can you create a large group of collaborators and then smaller sub-groups within it? The groups would be Public closed membership.

The longer version, I am part of a developing international research group interested in multi-discipline research into meditation and spirituality. We are looking for a platform for all of us to collaborate on and are trying to work out if Zotero will work for us.

Basically we are looking to link those already involved with this line of research with those interested in it so we can all collaborate. Collaboration to us means:
- being able to keep up-to-date with what members are doing, via individual profile pages updated either automatically or manually
- work in groups on research projects/articles
- to allow members to ask for help, collaboration or participants in projects.

Currently the main disciplines are Medical, Psychological, Engineering, Genetics, Commerce and Philosophy.

academia.edu and resaerch gate are too social and do not support privategroup functions, while Mendeley works for this but is prohibitively expensive. VIVO is another option we are investigating.

Zotero looks great as you can great groups, manage and search your own library, follow others, post questions to the group and share your work with others (am I correct in all this?).I could not see though how to create sub-groups from a main group ie. the larger group of us would also divide into the above mentioned disciplines.

From your collective/personal experience, how much do you think zotero is a match for our needs?

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on all this?

Thank you so much and have a great day.
Andrew