Very HANDY research tool with Firefox
| April 25th, 2008It has been difficult days for me (at least) to manage my papers and my research documents in such a way that ease me with preparing papers, proposals, reports and thesis. I guess everybody had their bad days, too.
But mine will certainly be over now, and I am sure yours will either.
ZOTERO as strange as its name; is a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser, that enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the browser. It is partly a piece of reference management software, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. On many major research websites such as digital libraries, Google Scholar, or even Amazon.com, Zotero detects when a book, article, or other resource is being viewed and with a mouse click finds and saves the full reference information to a local file. If the source is an online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a local copy of the source. Users can then add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the in-browser interface. Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies. (wikipedia)

Just install it as Firefox extention and there you go!!! You’ve got a very powerful tool, better than EndNote(TM), that allows you to do almost everything. Even better, they have plugins for popular document editors such as Microsoft (TM) Word and Open Office. Just go to their plugins page.
Firefox + zotero + Open Office, wow!!!! They are indeed Free and Open Source!!! What a dream come true.
As what the zotero guys said: ” RESEARCH, not RE-SEARCH”
Thanks guys, you’ve done a great job.
And I’m sure you’ll all agree with me, too.