Zotero, The Next Generation Research Tool

Steve Simon

2008-12-01

This page is currently being updated from the earlier version of my website. Sorry that it is not yet fully available.

Zotero: The Next Generation Research Tool. George Mason University. Excerpt: Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)óthe ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted referencesóand the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, andóon many major research and library sitesófind and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on oneís personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi). URL: www.zotero.org

You can find an earlier version of this page on my original website.