Zotero is a free and intuitive Firefox add-on that helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click.

Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else.

Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.

Detailed instructions on how to install and use the Zotero utility on your Mac are available HERE.

Zotero is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Here are some key features of "Zotero":

· 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
· Zotero extension works inside 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; interface available in Arabic Austrian German Bulgarian Brazilian Portuguese Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) French German Hungarian Hebrew Italian Japanese Korean Dutch Norwegian Polish Romanian Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Swiss German Turkish Vietnamese US English with more on the way
· 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 collection

Requirements:

· Firefox 3.6 - 10.*
· Netscape Navigator 9.0

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Functionality changed or added:
· Word processor integration
· Defer missing-item warning until after QuickFormat dialog closes
· Warn before letting the user change a citation that has been edited
· [Standalone] Allow add-ons to be updated via addons.mozilla.org

Localization:
· Imported latest localizations from Transifex

Bugs fixed:
· Fixed “libraryID, name, type are not unique” tag sync error
· Fixed large minimum height of Zotero pane
· Word processor integration
· Fixed a number of issues that could lead to errors or broken documents
· Be more lenient about hyphens and em dashes
· Fixed several issues with integration dialogs on Linux
· Miscellaneous bibliographic output and word processor integration fixes
· Updated citeproc-js to 1.0.280
· [Standalone] Don't show “Attach Snapshot of Current Page”/“Attach Link to Current Page” buttons
· [Standalone] Improved saving of attachments from connectors
· Fixed alignment of save icon guidance panel
· Fixed minor memory leak when saving snapshots
· [Standalone] Fixed re...