Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data

What's Zotero?

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."

Available for:

• Firefox 2.0
• Netscape Navigator 9.0
• Flock 0.9.1
• on Windows, Mac, Linux

Getting Citations

• Automatic Import from the UIUC Library Catalog, journals, databases, Wikipedia, flickr, WordPress, youtube,...
• Import from Other Citation Managers
• EndNote
• RefWorks
• Add citations by hand

Bibliographies & Backing Up—Getting Stuff out of Your Zotero Library

• Right-click to make easy bibliographies in many citation styles
• Write-n-Cite—easy footnotes & bibliographies for your papers
• OpenOffice
• Microsoft Word Integration 
• Back up Zotero by saving the folder (hint: check your Firefox preferences)
• Export metadata in RDF, MODS, BibTeX, RIS & more
• Drag and Drop citations to WordPress, Wikipedia, your webpage, ...

Tricking Zotero Out

• Download the PDF in one click
• Get from citations to full-text
• Mark uses the Grainger linkresolver: http://bolder.grainger.uiuc.edu/lr/lr.asp? to "Discover UIUC Full Text"
• Add more info about items—check the tabs: info, notes, attachments, tags, related
• View a timeline of your items
• One-click web archiving
• "Scribble" on webpages—add highlighting and notes right on the page

Bonus features

• Automatically recognizes MARC, Dublin Core XML, COinS, RDF, ...
• Supports Unicode
• Uses OCLC OpenURL Resolver Gateway and outputs OpenURL COinS

Advanced Tricks

• Take your Zotero library everywhere with a USB Firefox installation
• Contribute a new citation style with Citation Style Language (CSL)
• Contribute a new Site Translator
• Current sites with site translators
• Compatible software (including library catalogs)

More resources—beyond Zotero.org

• Raves from press & academic associations 
• Mark's del.icio.us Zotero bookmarks — discussion of academic library politics in relation to Zotero, some of my comments along assorted dimensions, comments by others particularly Karin Dalziel (see below)
• Zotero and RefWorks - It Doesn't Have To Be Either/or by Karin Dalziel
• Comparison of reference management software at Wikipedia

Coming Soon

• Online storage—access your Zotero library from anywhere (Expected in Zotero 1.5)
• Collaboration with the Internet Archive (Collaborative spaces expected in Zotero 2.0)
• Integration with more SIMILE tools
• OpenGIS map mashups

Getting Started

• Download Zotero from http://www.zotero.org
• Check the Quick Start Guide

• Lots of screencasts. I also like the info on getting stuff into your library and notetaking.

• Contact us if you have questions: Mark Lindner, Jodi Schneider
• This page available at: http://courseweb.lis.uiuc.edu/~mlindner/ZoteroPres.html