Zotero
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 Zotero detecting bibliographic information from embedded COinS on an experimental Wikipedia page |
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| Developer(s) | Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University (GMU) |
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| Initial release | October 23, 2006 |
| Stable release | 1.10
(2009-05-08) [+/−] |
| Preview release | 2.0b5
(2009-06-04) [+/−] |
| Written in | JavaScript with SQLite backend |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Reference management software |
| License | ECL |
| Website | Zotero |
Zotero 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, PubMed, Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon.com, and even Wikipedia, 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. Furthermore, all entries including bibliographic informations and user-created rich-text memos of the selected articles can be summarized into an HTML report.
The program is produced by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University (GMU). It is open and extensible, allowing other users to contribute citation styles and site translators, and more generally for others who are building digital tools for researchers to expand the platform.[1] The name is loosely derived from an Albanian verb meaning "to master".[2]
It is aimed at replacing the more cumbersome traditional reference management software, originally designed to meet the demands of offline research.
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[edit] EndNote Lawsuit
The Commonwealth of Virginia has been sued by Thomson Reuters (George Mason University, Zotero's sponsor is a public university owned by Virginia), who claim that Zotero's developers reverse-engineered EndNote and that Zotero hosts citation style language files that were converted from EndNote's proprietary style format, in violation of the EndNote EULA.[3]
George Mason University responded that they would not renew their site license for EndNote and that "anything created by users of Zotero belongs to those users, and that it should be as easy as possible for Zotero users to move to and from the software as they wish, without friction."[4] The journal Nature editorialized that "the virtues of interoperability and easy data-sharing among researchers are worth restating. Imagine if Microsoft Word or Excel files could be opened and saved only in these proprietary formats, for example. It would be impossible for OpenOffice and other such software to read and save these files using open standards — as they can legally do." [5]
The case was dismissed on June 4, 2009.[6]
[edit] See also
- Citation style language
- CiteProc
- Comparison of reference management software
- COinS
- LibX
- ScrapBook - another Firefox extension having similar capture features but no bibliographic functions
- unAPI
[edit] References
- ^ Young, Jeffrey R. (2006). "Firefox Scholar Released (Now Called Zotero)". The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wired Campus, 2006-10-31
- ^ "The etymology of Zotero". The Ideophone. January 25, 2008. http://ideophone.org/zotero-etymology/. Retrieved on 2008-12-01.
- ^ "Reuters Says George Mason University Is Handing Out Its Proprietary Software". Courthouse News Service. 2008-09-17. http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/17/Reuters_Says_George_Mason_University_Is_Handing_Out_Its_Proprietary_Software.htm. Retrieved on 2008-09-28.
- ^ Owens, Trevor (2008-10-29). "Official Statement". Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool. http://www.zotero.org/blog/offical-statement/. Retrieved on 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Beta blockers?". Nature 455 (7214): 708. 2008-10-09. doi:. ISSN 0028-0836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/455708a. Retrieved on 2009-04-11.
- ^ Takats, Sean (2009-06-04). "Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Dismissed". The Quintessence of Ham. http://quintessenceofham.org/2009/06/04/thomson-reuters-lawsuit-dismissed/. Retrieved on 2009-06-04.
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