While browsing the list & clicking links I found VuFind, an online catalog & discovered Zotero. Zotero is "a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."
I haven't explored much, but intend to spend more time looking at this. I think it might be an excellent tool for students (and teachers) who have trouble citing sources, plus it offers notetaking and other research tools right from the website you are using. Here's the list of features:
- Automatic capture of citation information from web pages
- Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
- Flexible notetaking with autosave
- Fast, as-you-type search through your materials
- Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags
- Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services
- Runs right in your web browser
- Formatted citation export (style list to grow rapidly)
- Free and open source
- Integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice
- Saves records and notes in any language
- Integration with WordPress and other blogging software
- Remote library backup
- Advanced search and data mining tools
- Access your library from anywhere via the web
- Wide variety of import/export options
- Recommendation engine and RSS feeds
- Shared collections
1 comment:
Hmmm.... I'm in favor of anything to help keep the little darlin's from plagiarizing out of shear laziness... it does sound like a great tool. I wonder how different it is from google notebook???
Ann
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