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Bibliography Tool: Zotero

Category: Computing
Posted on: September 3, 2007 10:00 AM, by Joseph j7uy5

This is good.  Firefox now has an extension that makes it simple to store all your bibliographic information from online research.  

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It is at release candidate 3 stage now, well-developed and fully functional.  It is called .  It is bundled with the "Campus Edition" (the best thing since ramen noodles) of Firefox, but it can be installed easily into any version on Linux, OS X, or even Windows machines.

From an article at Linux Insider:


For purposes of bona fide research and turning incompletes into passing grades, Zotero is a big something. Zotero, which resides within the browser, can store the author, title and publication fields, and export the information as formatted references.

Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Some of its funding has come from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

It is a polished piece of work, another instance of quality programming in the free -- libre -- open-source software arena.  I tried it with a nearly random search at Medline and it worked well.  You can associate tags and notes with each reference, then export the entire thing.   This is going to save a lot of people a lot of time.


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woww thanks Joseph j7uy5 very good Bibliography Tool Zotero..

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Posted by: sarah jon | September 3, 2007 12:21 PM

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Since I never liked EndNote I imediately installed Zotero. Unfortunately, like I other users I had problems to download references directly from PubMed/Medline. This issue can be solved when you do your PubMed/Medline search on BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) instead. You can export your results into zotero by just clicking "send to". You can choose different export formats. I've used "Endnote + abstracts" and it worked fine.
Unfortunately, for snapshoting pdfs of these articles you have to create additional entries andd copy their URL into the URL field of the entry that contains the references. In addition, right clicking and and snapshoting links to pdfs doesn't work for all journals. In these cases one has to store the pdf locally first and open the pdf in firefox. One the has to make a snapshot and copy the URL to the entry with the reference.
Currently, I can´t search inside the pdfs with Zotero but I hope that this will work with the next update.

Posted by: sparc | September 6, 2007 11:13 AM

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"Unfortunately, for snapshoting pdfs of these articles you have to create additional entries andd copy their URL into the URL field of the entry that contains the references. In addition, right clicking and and snapshoting links to pdfs doesn't work for all journals. In these cases one has to store the pdf locally first and open the pdf in firefox"


i don't understand sparc. thanks your comment.

Posted by: msn nickleri | November 2, 2007 1:23 PM

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good collection nice !

Posted by: msn nickleri | November 2, 2007 1:28 PM

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Thanks. Good very site

Posted by: darlehen hypothek | November 2, 2007 1:37 PM

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nice working thank you (;

Posted by: tuzcuoğlu nakliyat | November 2, 2007 1:41 PM

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Good comment.Thanks admin.

Posted by: youtube | November 20, 2007 3:50 PM

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thank you

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