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Zotero Wins Citefest

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From Library Stuff, we learn that Zotero has outperformed all other citation software tested at Citefest 2008, sponsored by Northwestern University Library and Academic Technologies. They tested CiteULike, Connotea, EndNote, NoodleBib, RefWorks, and Zotero. Now we just need a Canadian legal citation style.

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  1. Kim
    March 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    Thanks for the info, Michael. It’s a shame I wasn’t able to point my husband, a physicist, to this last week when he was finishing a paper. He’s now tried it in the scientific context and gives his own strong endorsement, FWIW after Citefest.

    He says “it is brilliant, and it works amazingly well with Medline/PubMed… You can organize your bibliography and, what is best, generate your bibliography for papers with a few mouse clicks. You can save your bibliography as a text file sent to your clipboard and insert references while your writing your paper with PubMed open on Firefox [it’s a free add-on to FF]. This is a real time-saver!”

    As for a Canadian legal citation style (a Bluebook style module can be installed already), Zotero is open source, so if anyone wants to give this a go…

    Kim

  2. michael lines
    March 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Can you give me a link to the Bluebook style? I wasn’t able to find it on the site…

  3. Cecilia Tellis
    March 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    I was checking to see if Zotero included any legal citation styles and found a Law forum here: http://forums.zotero.org/8/ which has a section on the Bluebook. Looks like it may still be a style in development? http://www.zotero.org/styles

  4. Kurt
    April 26th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Zotero apparently doesn’t import the DOI numbers from the Medline entries in PubMed, which is a big lack. Without DOI numbers, there’s no stable links to article full-text entries.