tips: online research with zotero
i just want to share some tips about online research & managing bibliography.
Online research is a very popular way of finding information. The traditional way of managing those resources is by saving the pages manually. Unfortunately, the drawbacks is difficult to manage the bibliographical information. URL, author, accessed date, title, of the web page are not saved when the page is stored in our local storage.
If you are using firefox (the most popular browser on earth), there is an add-ons named zotero which helps you much for your internet research.
benefit of using zotero:
– you can create your own library
– bibliographical information is easy to manage
– you can export bibliographical information in different styles (harvard, MIT, etc), and put it into other applications. eg. ms word.
– you can manage bibliographical information from various sources. eg. magazines, books, etc.
– you can add notes into your zotero entry. like annotated bibliography.
– zotero can read bibliography information from pdf files.
based on my experiences, this tool is very helpful while writing my academic paper.
so i really recommend this tool to you.
hope you enjoy it.
regards,
note:
for installation, please visit here
for manual guide, please visit here.
