- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: July 30, 2008
- Total Downloads: 11,248
- Downloads last week: 31
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 7 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Keep all of your online and offline citations and notes nicely organized, just allow yourself some extra time to get the hang of this Firefox add-on.
Zotero's user interface can be activated by either a hot-key combo or by clicking on the status-bar icon. A three-paned screen takes up half of your browser screen, but you can choose to display it under your browser window or expand it to take up the entire screen. We spent some time trying to figure out the program; it's not immediately intuitive. You can definitely cut down your learning curve by taking advantage of the tutorial. Once we got going, we were quickly adding entire pages, specific text, and taking snapshots of Web material to organize into collections. We were able to add notes and even attach Word and Excel documents to specific items in the collection folders. The highlighter tool is a handy addition for noting key sections in saved Web pages. You also can add notes on the side of the page, much as you would with hard-copy research.
This free tool is perfect for students and teachers, but also for anyone looking to keep track of important information found on the Web.
Publisher's description
From Center for History and New Media :Zotero 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.
Features include: automatic capture of citation information from Web pages; storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole Web pages; flexible notetaking with autosave; fast, as-you-type search through your materials; and playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags.
Version 1.0.7 fixes bugs and clears up issues with Firefox 3.0.1.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.7 fixes bugs and clears up issues with Firefox 3.0.1.
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User reviews of Zotero 1.07
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 7 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Zotero 1.07
"Best Outliner software I have used..."
Pros: and I have tried a bunch. I use it a lot for recipes. You can link related recipe together. For instance, a cake recipe and icing recipe. Or a meat recipe and a sauce for it.
Cons: Only for Firefox.
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Version: Zotero 1.07
"excellent - no student should work without this"
Pros: This is exactly what I have been looking for for a long time now - and it's FREE!!!!
I'm currently writing my thesis and this program saves me a lot of time and tiresome work!
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Version: Zotero 1.07
"Looks good, but web-install only is bad."
Pros: Functionality looks great.
Cons: Don't like the network install. (You can download the XPI file from zotero.org. It's a bit of a trip to get there via the links.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Zotero 1.07
Pros: I like how it zips biblio info into your Zotero library with one click. It allows you to organize your websites and web documents into folders. It saves time and you can mark up your documents, type notes, etc. You can even download book info from Amazon.com - you should take time to learn from Zotero's website ... they have tutorials and a help forum.
Cons: There are a few bugs where the cite while you write feature doesn't quite do the citation style I need, but I just manually fix it. I also have to fix some bugs in the bibliography/references list, but still I think it saves me time overall.
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Version: Zotero 1.07
"The best bibliography tool around at the moment"
Pros: Zotero is the best bibliography tool around, much more functional than the non-free competitors. Importing bibliographical info from journal web-sites is extremely easy and works very well.
Cons: Creating your own citation styles can be tricky
Summary: Installing Zotero is really easy, importing references from web-resources works surprisingly well. Integration with MS Word and Openoffice is flawless. The available tools for editing your own styles are still very basic, although there are quite a ... read more >>
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