Zotero: Web-based citation manager

When people like Lorcan Dempsey and Peter Binkley suggest one pays attention to a service like Zotero, I’m gonna pay attention!  It’s in private beta right now, so I haven’t actually tried it, but here’s what it’s all about.  From thier homepage, Zotero:

• captures citation information
  you want from a web page automatically, without typing or cutting and
  pasting on your part, and saves this information directly into the
  correct fields (e.g., author, title, etc.) of your Zotero library
• lets you store—beyond citations—PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
• allows you to easily take notes on the research materials you capture
• makes it easy to organize your research materials in multiple ways, such as folders, saved searches (smart folders), and tags
• offers fast, as-you-type search through your materials so that you can quickly find that source that you only vaguely remember
• lets you export formatted citations to your paper, article, book, or website
• has an easy-to-use, modern interface that simplifies all of your research tasks, with “where has that been?” features such as autosaving your notes as you type
• runs right in your web browser and is a platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services
• is free and open source

It’s a free citation manager that lives in your Firefox browser.  What’s that?  You don’t use Firefox yet?  Guess it’s time to start 🙂 

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