Zotero

=Zotero - www.zotero.org=


 * Zotero** is an awesome tool that enables users to manage bibliographic data and to store web-page snapshots and other electronic objects. It also has a groups function so you can collaborate with colleagues on ongoing research. My favorite saying from Zotero is, "The web now has a wrangler" and it's true - this tool wrangles so much data for you, it's amazing!

Here is a PSU white paper on 7 things you need to know about Zotero.

From Zotero's "About" page: //"Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi)."//

Since there is so much you can do with Zotero, your best bet is to go to the website and click around to learn about the features. They also have a library of screencast tutorials to help you get started.