Zotero
Zotero is an open source Firefox
extension
to help users collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources.
It
lives right in the web browser itself. Zotero includes the best parts
of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to
store author, title, and publication fields and to export that
information as formatted references—and 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 is, at the most basic level, a citation manager. It is
designed to store, manage, and cite bibliographic references, such as
books and articles. In Zotero, each of these references constitutes an
item. Every item contains different metadata, depending on
what type it is. Items can be everything from books, articles, and
documents to web pages, artwork, films, sound recordings, bills, cases,
or statutes, among many others.
It is possible to run Zotero as a separate program without
Firefox.
Features include:
- Intuitive interface
- Collect information on books, journal articles, and other
resources with a single click in your location bar. Drag and drop
bibliography
- Preloaded with all major styles, and thousands of
additional journal-specific styles are freely available
- Archive entire web pages in your library
- Store related PDFs, files, images, and links in your
library
- Full-text indexing
- Autofind
- Add tags
- Rich-text notes
- Automatic synchronization of collections among multiple
computers
- Free automatic backup of your library data on Zotero’s
servers
- Automatic synchronization of your attachment files to a
WebDAV server (e.g. iDisk, Jungle Disk, or university-provided web
storage)
- Automatic detection of PDF
metadata (i.e., author, title, etc.)
- Automatic detection and support for proxy servers
- Trash can with restore item functionality so you don't
accidentally lose important materials.
- Rich-text notes
- Style manager allows you to add and delete CSL and legacy
format styles
- Support for Endnote export styles
- Word and OpenOffice integration
- Zotero Connectors
- Plugins for Google Chrome and Safari and a new
Standalone-compatible mode for Firefox
- Save items directly to Standalone or to your zotero.org
library
- Duplicate detection and merging
- Word processor integration improvements
- A streamlined Add Citation dialog for quicker citing
- Ability to edit citations directly in the word processor
document
- Sharing of word processor documents with users of Zotero
and other compatible software without using Zotero groups
- Dragging of collections into group libraries
- Collaborate:
- Share Group Libraries
- Publish Dynamic Bibliographies
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