Zotero is a citation management tool built into your web browser -- Firefox or Chrome -- that helps you collect, organize, and share citations. Zotero also helps you create and format bibliographies and footnotes in a wide variety of citation styles (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.) for your papers and research projects. Zotero works on PCs, Macs, and Linux systems, and is compatible with MS Office, Google Docs, and Open Office.
Zotero is freely available for download from www.zotero.org.
In January, the Library completed a major system migration for the Library Catalog. As a result, the Zotero connector no longer works (the records imported are incomplete). This problem has been reported and our IT staff are working on it. The Library hopes that the issue is resolved soon, but there is a work around in the meantime:
The records imported should be complete and have all the necessary information for your bibliographies.
Zotero automatically captures citations from library catalogs, databases and web sites.
View a complete list of compatible sites at Zotero.
Zotero should recognize items within the Library Catalog and give you the option to import to your library.
You can setup Zotero to use the Library's FindIt! service to locate full text of articles.
Step by step: