Zotero 4+
Your research assistant
Zotero
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- Free
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Description
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your work.
COLLECT
• Save journal articles, newspaper articles, books, webpages, and more via the Share button in Safari and other apps
• Automatically download article PDFs to read
• Quickly add physical books and articles to your Zotero library by scanning book barcodes or article DOIs with your iPhone or iPad camera
ORGANIZE
• Use collections and tags to organize your research
• View and edit bibliographic information for your research items
ANNOTATE
• Read PDFs and add highlights and notes, or use an Apple Pencil to make freehand annotations
CITE
• Instantly generate citations and bibliographies in over 10,000 formats and journal styles including APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, Turabian, and Vancouver.
SHARE
• Collaboratively collect sources and mark up PDFs in group libraries with your colleagues
• Synchronize your personal and group research libraries to access them via Zotero’s desktop app and the Zotero website
• Use the Zotero desktop app to insert your annotations into Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs documents and automatically generate bibliographies from the sources you used
Visit zotero.org to learn more about everything you can do with Zotero.
Having trouble? Have an idea? Post bug reports and feature requests to the Zotero Forums at forums.zotero.org to talk directly to Zotero developers.
ZOTERO AND PRIVACY
Since 2006, the Zotero team has been committed to creating the best research software, and we believe that includes putting you in full control of your own work. We’re an independent, nonprofit organization, and we’ll never sell your data.
What’s New
Version 1.0.36
- Fixed uploading of files via Zotero Storage from within app
- Fixed downloading of arXiv PDFs via Add by Identifier
- Show clearer window titles when using iOS multitasking
Ratings and Reviews
Absolutely great to have - only two fixes
I was so happy when I found out Zotero had a mobile app, and hsve downloaded it on all my devices. Especially the barcode-scan-to-add function is golden.
Only things I would like to see change to make it truly efficient to use, though: The ability to search for a specific item in my library, without entering the right collection first. Currently I seem to only be able to search collections, or enter the correct collection and then search for the item.
The second point is more of a bug report: The function to opt out of auto-attatching related pdf-files to items added by identifier/barcode doesn’t seem to work. I’ve got it turned off, but any of my scans still get a pdf of the cover or contents or something attached, which I then feel the meed to go and delete manually (to save the space).
Developer Response ,
You can search for items across your library from the All Items view.
We’re looking into the problem with the Save Files pref and Add by Identifier.
AMAZING FOR RESESRCH
As a postgraduate student, I've only switched my workflow to Zotero recently - it's replaced a reference manager and a PDF highlighter for me and integration with my note taking app allows me to work much more seamlessly. Saves me hours of work on each paper.
Top features for me:
- Automatic referencing
- PDF download and offline highlighting
- Integration with MS Word to quickly import references (PC); seems to work great with LaTeX too!!
- Plugins on PC to personalise it to what I need it for
- Integration with Obsidian, which is my note management app (also recommend!)
- Colour tags to highlight what I need to do, have done and am working on (or for anything else you might want the for)
What could be added:
- Maybe a short description for each collection (other than the name; a note can be inserted inside of the folder so it's not a huge issue)
- Article numbers can occasionally show in "pages" field with some less common referencing styles.
Excellent
I was a beta tester for this app and it continues to be a fantastic reference manager. I would however like to see better filtering within folders. At the moment, one can only filter by whether the file is downloaded or not and not by tags which would be really helpful, at least to me. I tag my items based on whether I’ve read them or not or whether I need to take notes on them, so filtering in this way would be a great help.
App Privacy
The developer, Zotero, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Corporation for Digital Scholarship
- Size
- 103.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Corporation for Digital Scholarship
- Price
- Free