Get Zotero
Download Zotero and associated plug-ins using these links:
- Firefox:
Download Firefox to get started with Zotero
- Zotero:
Download the Zotero add-on for Firefox
- Zotero Word Processor Integration:
Download the word processor plug-in to cite Zotero items in your Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice documents
- Zotero Scholar Citations:
Download Zotero Scholar Citations to retrieve metadata for your PDFs using Google Scholar
- Portable Firefox:
Don't have Firefox? Download Portable Firefox to use Zotero on a flashdrive
- Zotero Mobile Apps (New!)
iOS and Andriod developers have been hard at work creating apps so that you can get the most out of Zotero on your mobile devices!
- Zotero Standalone 3.0 Beta:
For Mac, Windows, and Linux; conncectors for Chrome and Safari
- Readability:
This free add-on makes sites Zotero-friendly if they aren't already - Qnotero:
This free program lives in your system tray and offers you quick and easy access your Zotero PDFs and references
Zotero Benefits
Zotero can support research projects both large and small in scale from wherever you are working. Since Zotero is web-based and uses your Firefox profile to store your data, it's easy to sync your entire Zotero library to any computer with an Internet connection and Firefox as a browser option. You can use Zotero for collecting snapshots of the web, as you might a bookmark. The nice thing about Zotero is that it's there when you need it and hidden when you don't. With Zotero, citing resources within your work and generating bibliographies are both very easy tasks. You can also easily share your resources and collaborate with other researchers by using Zotero Groups.
Since Zotero works from within your Firefox web broswer, you can use Zotero with any operating system: Windows, Mac, and/or Linux.
Advances on the Zotero Everywhere project has given way to Standalone Zotero 3.0 Beta which allows you to use Zotero with browsers other than Firefox (currently Chrome, Safari; Internet Explorer is in the works).
Zotero has also overhauled their web interface and you can now edit and collect sources through your Zotero.org webpage. This functionality works great and allows users to sync collections to the cloud and access them with any browser, any time.
Zotero Basics
Zotero is a free, open source, easy-to-use Firefox add-on (soon to be supported by all major web browsers) that helps you to collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in your web browser. Designed to be intuitive and unobtrusive (it looks a lot like an iTunes library), Zotero is a powerful and handy tool for any academic.
Zotero works on all three major operating systems: PC, Mac, and Linux.
Zotero Quick Start Guide: The A, B, C's of "Z"
Zotero is a production of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and is funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Zotero Firefox Add-on
Quickly download the Zotero Firefox Add-on:
- Open Firefox
- Click on Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons
- Search for the following:
- 'Zotero' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
- 'Zotero WinWord Integration' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
- 'Zotero Scholar Citations' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
- 'Readability' and click the 'Add to Firefox' button or 'Install'
- Restart Firefox to apply the Add-ons
- Start collecting sources!
How does it work?
Zotero is comprised of three components:
- Translators - Interpret meta-data from websites, databases, videos, images, etc.
- Styles - Choose from over 20 standard citation styles and add more if necessary.
- Storage - Zotero lives in your browser using your Firefox profile; you are given 100MB of free storage.
Once you get Zotero installed on your Firefox browser, look for the Zotero icon on the lower right side of the browser.
What does "Zotero" mean?
'Zotero' is based on the Albanian word "zotëroj," which means “to acquire, to master,” in terms of learning.
Zotero Mobile Apps
From Zotero's September 29th, 2011 blog post "Zotero Apps Go Mobile"
- ZandyZandy is well on its way to being the first full-featured mobile Zotero application for Android devices. Users can currently edit and view their Zotero libraries, add new items, and work offline. Future releases promise even more functionality.
- Scanner for ZoteroScanner for Zotero lets you add books to your Zotero library from anywhere, with no need to have Zotero installed anywhere. Simply scan a book’s ISBN barcode with your Android phone, and the software will add the book to your Zotero library directly on our (Zotero's) servers.
- BibUpBibUp allows iPhone users to add books to their Zotero libraries much like Scanner for Zotero, and it also provides the additional functionality of photographing specific pages to be collected, on which BibUp will even perform OCR.
- ZotFile ReaderZotFile Reader eases the transfer of Zotero-based PDFs to and from mobile readers like Android devices and the iPad. It builds on the success of the original ZotFile extension, which significantly enhances Zotero’s built-in PDF management by automating the attachment of PDFs to Zotero items, and the renaming of those files according to user-configurable rules. The latest beta version of ZotFile combines all of this functionality into a single extension.
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This is an adaptation of the Zotero LibGuide by Marie Sciangula licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. Re-use of this adaptation by Andrew Whitis is granted under the same Creative Commons Attibution-NonCommerical 3.0 license.
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