Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] -- Research tool -- Firefox Extension

dog [away] · Oct 29, 2006

Linux.com said:

Zotero: A seriously useful research tool

Friday October 27, 2006 (08:01 AM GMT)
By: Dmitri Popov

If you spend most of your time doing research on the Web, you need Zotero, a Firefox extension that helps you manage research sources. With Zotero installed, Firefox is not confined to the Web, and you can use it as a standalone application for all sorts of online and offline research.

Zotero requires Firefox version 2.0, so you must obtain and install the latest version of the browser to be able to use the extension. To install Zotero, visit its Web site from Firefox, click on the Download button, and you are ready to go. Zotero places an icon in the right lower corner of the browser status bar; click on the icon to show and hide the application's main window. Alternatively, you can add the Zotero button to the toolbar by choosing View -> Toolbars -> Customize and dragging the Z icon onto the toolbar.

Zotero's main window consists of three panes. The left pane contains your library, which is a repository of every item you've added, including books, articles, Web pages, and notes. The library can contain an unlimited number of collections, which you can use to sort the items in the library. For example, you can create separate collections for the book, articles, and Web page items. Zotero also lets you create smart folders called "saved searches," which are similar to dynamic playlists in music player applications. Using this feature, you can, for example, create a smart folder that contains all books and articles by a certain publisher. When you add a new item that matches the specified criteria, the smart folder updates automatically. If you right-click on a collection, you can perform several actions, including exporting it (Zotero supports BibTeX, MODS, RIS, Refer/BibIX, and other formats) and generating a bibliography. Zotero not only supports different citation styles, it can also output the final result in several formats, including RTF and HTML.
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Zotero said:

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you to annotate, organize, and share the results of your research. It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will—on many major research sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields.

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Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It is generously funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Compatible with Firefox 2.0 only

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Mrkvonic · Oct 29, 2006

Hello,
Looks like a combination of scrapbook and del.icio.us.
Nice find.
Mrk

Longboard · Oct 29, 2006

Cool tool
Will take a few minutes (!) to sort out how to use it best, good for me.
Thx

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