Get the latest from Zotero
Zotero has just released the beta of their 2.0 upgrade, and it looks awesome. Here is the announcement.
The most important upgrade is the promised addition of groups and collaboration.
Groups provide a powerful way to share collections with a class, work closely with a colleague on a project, keep track of conversations in your field more broadly, and keep tabs on what people at your institution or in your department are working on. To copy items into any of your groups just drag and drop items from your library into any of your group libraries and subcollections. Below you can see an image of your groups inside Zotero.
Your group can be published as a web page, either public or private. I am really looking forward to trying this out (and reporting back here at Nerdlets). The promise for teaching is extraordinary! It could provide a whole new level of interaction in the classroom, not to mention among colleagues and fellow researchers.
Other features are also in the works:
As we refine this beta release, the Zotero team will roll out its recommendation engine, a storage solution for sharing attached files, more ways to navigate through collections online, and the ability to view feeds from public groups and libraries.
Stay tuned for updates. I look forward to posting a full review and guide in the near future.
You can get the latest release here. I have a quick-start guide posted here.
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And I just upgraded to 1.5 on Saturday…
Some of this is a name change. They're adding so much, they need a version number to match. aka Firefox.
Kinda the opposite of the Linux community. We add a bunch of stuff, and upgrade it from 0.99.1.0012a to 0.99.1.0012b
Tommy, once you've gotten comfortable and acquainted with the new features, you should do a video demonstration of how you use Zotero. I always find those useful.
Time permitting, of course. Which it probably won't. Zotero has been pretty good about provided video demonstration themselves, and will probably do so when they provide a final release. But we shall see. Working on a group for the Epistle to the Hebrews first.
Not yet. trying it out now.
Been looking at it. It does not do everything I need. I'm going to post a comparison soon.
Well, for one thing, I couldn't find any option to format a Bibliography or to format footnotes in a particular style, like Zotero does (Chicago, MLA, SBL, etc). Am I just missing something?
The lack of different document types was another issue. All the fields are there (if you select Generic), but Bibliographies are formatted differently based on different types.
500mb is nice for online storage, but if you stick your Zotero database into your dropbox directory, you get 2gb. (If you don't already have Dropbox, use my promotion code for 250mb of extra storage: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExMjczNzk )
Am I missing something? Looks promising though. I'm leaving it installed to see where it goes.
By the way, Zotero offers most of what you like about Mendeley, or is supposed to in the near future.
It doesn't really look like bibliographic software. Am I mistaken?
You're correct, it doesn't have the bibliographic software that Zotero has, it is for teams doing research. I'm not in academia (corporate world!), but I used to use Zotero for doing market research with my team, and I switched to using Archivd (since Zotero didn't have collaborative features at that point). If you don't need the bibliographic resources, Archivd might be a better fit – but if you do, I think it's the best that's out there!