Zotero
A reference manager for storing and managing bibliographical references like books and articles.
Planning and collaboration, Communication
Medium difficulty to set up
Top Benefits: Record keeping, Easy to use, Collaborative
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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool for collecting, organising, citing, and sharing your research information and sources. Very useful tool for those producing written work in the community sector as well as education-focussed organisations.
Main features
- It can be used on multiple computers with syncing and attachments
- Word, LibraOffice and Google Docs and other writing programme plugins allow you to insert citations directly
- create collections of different types of items - books, articles, reports, web pages, film etc
- Zotero users can create collaborative or interest groups and share libraries
- developed by Digital Scholar, a nonprofit corporation for digital scholarship who also offer other free and open source tools
- free to use
