What is Zotero?
Zotero is a citation management software that allows you to save and organize items found via searching the library's databases. It also can be used to create reference lists and citations for papers. There are a number of software systems available.
Zotero is one of the more popular software choices, some reasons for this include:
- Zotero works best if your research is both HTML and PDFs. Often this is the choice for researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Zotero works well with Firefox. It also has a standalone desktop application.
- Zotero offers 300 MB of free cloud storage.
- Zotero allows easy citation additions from websites like Amazon and Flickr.
- Zotero has a well-liked interface for tagging and writing notes to accompany citations.