Faculty (and student) researchers take note - the “next-generation research tool” is here! At least this is what the faculty designers of Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ from the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University are saying. Its new public beta 2.0 release was featured recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired News.
This open source tool which operates in the new Mozilla Firefox 2.0 browser release provides “vastly simplified citation management, note taking, and advanced scholarly research right within the Firefox browser” according to Dan Cohen, the Director of Research Projects at the Center.
So what does it do?
According to the site and the Wired news post, you can :
- gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then annotate, organize, and share the results of your research
- store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and export that as formatted references
- sort, tag, and search in advanced ways
- import Web pages, and citation information from them, into a personal filing system
- enable flexible notetaking with autosave
- store PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
Excited yet? Wait until you see the list of features that WILL be available.
For more on Zotero:
Dan Cohen’s Zotero blog
http://www.dancohen.org/
Firefox Scholar Released (Now Called Zotero)
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1679/firefox-scholar-released-now-called-zotero
