Comments on: Zotero

By: Update to Zotero « Josh Philpot

Update to Zotero « Josh Philpot — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:07:56 +0000

[...] you’re not familiar with Zotero, you can read my overview here and here. LD_AddCustomAttr("AdOpt", "1"); LD_AddCustomAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:47:23 +0000

Hi, from what I know, Refworks and wizfolio are both web-based reference managers while Mendeley is a desktop application. That is basically the difference.

I am both a Zotero and Wizfolio user. Personally I think it is a good combination as Zotero caters to my social science and humanities research while wizfolio works well for my scientific research. In addition, Zotero in my opinion is the best desktop reference manager while I use wizfolio as my online reference manager. In this case I can back up my files online and have a copy on my computer and work from anywhere. Just a suggestion:) Can consider using this in your research after all they are both free of charge!:)

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:48:03 +0000

Zotero is indeed good. Will it be free for long? My university is subscribing to Endnote, but I think I will like to use Zotero as my research platform.

By the way, it seems that there are quite a number of reference manager – Refworks, Wizfolio and Menedely. What is the difference? Please advice….

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:10:14 +0000

I’ve used it for a couple years, but it was introduced to me only as a note taking device. And since I didn’t know about the Word feature til now, I really appreciate the post. I’ve been using this week. Thanks!

By: Paul Cable

Paul Cable — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:59:22 +0000

I’ve used it a little- had to do a lot of reformatting for it. Not that great. Thanks for the heads-up! Looks like Firefox will get back into my dock!

By: Josh Philpot

Josh Philpot — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:07:49 +0000

I tried it once or twice, and I didn’t really like it. Have you?

In my opinion Zotero is much better. If you’re on Amazon.com, just add all the books to your Zotero. The same goes with books on the library site. You can add all of them to your Zotero without typing anything. Then, as you write, you can just add the citation info without looking up all the bibliographic stuff.

By: Paul Cable

Paul Cable — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:06:36 +0000

Do you write your papers in Word? Do you know anything about/have you used the built-in citations function?