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Zotero - Reference Management done right

Not sure if anybody out there has tried Zotero. It's a firefox extension that lets you manage your reference collection from within the browser. The really nice stuff it does include:

  • Cite While you Write in Word and OpenOffice
  • Metadata scraping from hundreds of different resources
    • Pubmed
    • Google Scholar
    • Oxford journals
    • Web of science
    • ePrints repositories
    • etc
  • Automagically downloads PDFs of paper that you add to your collection
  • Import from other reference databases
  • all this happens when you click on the icon that pops up in your address bar - no typing needed!

They're developing a server version as well so you can create a group repository - similar to connotea.

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Submitted by alloza on November 14, 2007 - 11:51am.

It looks interesting, but I'm not sure if it'd better to wait for the next releases, for the server side.

Isn't it too focused to arts? I'd really like it if it had link to citeulike or to download my papers stored there.

Submitted by kehan on November 14, 2007 - 1:35pm.

They're initial focus is the humanities, but it's really done well. You go to citeulike and the folder icon appears in your toolbar. Clicking it will import all references on your current page. It also has automatic import for endnote format references, so if you click on download into endnote links (connotea, citeulike, etc generally have em), it automatically imports. I just tried this with my citeulike library using RIS export and they all imported including the citeulike tags - didn't import my pdf's on citeulike, but where I had access imported pdfs from original page. It also exports into all these formats. Give it a try. A few tips - in Preferences.. enable automatic pdf collection, and in Advanced tell it to store stuff elsewhere - by default it stores them within your firefox profile folder - I like to have my own folder. It also has a nice openurl resolver, so if you don't have the doi/url/sici/pickarandomuri you can probably still locate the paper using your institutions openurl resolver or crossref's friendly one. I personally use http://bioguid.info/openurl.php cos it's got a focus on taxonomic information.