Zotero

Description

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

Grab your research with a single click.

A personal research assistant.

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you’re searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Store anything.

Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes.

It has never been easier to sort your research.

Say goodbye to folders.

Zotero organizes your research into collections that act like iTunes playlists. Research items can be added to any number of named collections and subcollections, which in turn can be organized however you like. With saved searches, you can create smart collections that automatically fill with relevant materials as you add them to your library.

Tag it.

Assign tags to your library items to organize your research using your own keywords. The tag selector enables you to filter your library instantly to view matching items. Zotero can even use database and library data to tag items automatically as you add them.

You’re never more than a click away from a bibliography.

Cite perfectly.

Whether you need to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, or bibliographies, Zotero will do all the dirty work for you, leaving you free to focus on your writing. Create citations in Word and OpenOffice without ever leaving your word processor and add references to an email, a Google Doc, or some other editor simply by dragging one or more references out of Zotero.

Always in style.

Ready to submit your manuscript to Tropical Doctor or French Historical Studies? We’ve got you covered: with native integration of the powerful and flexible Citation Style Language (CSL), Zotero supports thousands of publication formats with more styles added daily.

Your data is always where you need it.

Research everywhere.

Zotero automatically synchronizes your data across as many devices as you choose. Add to your research library on your work PC, and organize your collections on your home laptop. All of your notes, files, and bibliographic data remain seamlessly and silently up to date. Returning from field work? Your data will be waiting for you when you get home.

Painless data transfer.

Upgrading to a new computer? Zotero will automatically pull down a complete copy of your research library from our server network. Even if you don’t yet have Zotero installed, you can always access your research from any web browser in the world.

Work together and share with the world.

Works well with others.

Create and join research groups to focus on any topic you choose. Each group can share its own research library, complete with files, bibliographic data, notes, and discussion threads. Tag and analyze your research together with others. Work with a single colleague or an entire class: Zotero groups can include as many members as you please.

Share with the world. Or not.

Zotero groups can be private or public, open or closed. You decide. For example, you and a few colleagues might initially work on a research project in private. After publication, why not share your research notes and library with the world?

Pricing

Plan Price Details
Zotero 100 MB Free 100 MB of storage free.
Zotero 1 GB $20/year 1 GB of storage for $20/year.
Zotero 5 GB $60/year 5 GB of storage for $60/year.
Zotero 10 GB $100/year 10 GB of storage for $100/year.
Zotero 25 GB $240/year 25 GB of storage for $240/year.

Reviews

eLearning Coordinator
June 23, 2012

This wonderful tool is useful to anyone who needs to write research essays and cite their sources. Like EndNote and other citation tools, one can manually enter source details and click buttons to paste citations into a word processed document. However, Zotero makes it easy for web based sources through one-click collection from sites such as TED.com and many others.

I would recommend it to everyone who has to include sources in their essay. It allows writers to focus on their essay content and forget about correct punctuation format of citations. This can also help students avoid plagiarism.

eLearning Coordinator
May 5, 2012

Makes citing sources and bibliography writing in my essays very easy and accurate to any format (Harvard, APA, MLA, etcetera).

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