If you’re an academic and you don’t know about Zotero, you should take a few minutes to check it out. It’s immensely useful for collecting and annotating a wide variety of web-based materials, and whenever the opportunity presents itself, I recommend it to colleagues and students. I’m not surprised at all to see that it’s now been recommended by more than 100 colleges and universities.
For those Zotero enthusiasts, they’ve put together a list of 10 Reasons Your Institution Should Adopt Zotero. Here are the notable highlights for me:
- Open Source
- Cross-platform
- Extensible (e.g., Concordia University’s Vertov)
- Synch-able across machines
- Multilingual (30 languages)
Maybe the next step, if they haven’t done so already, is Zotero swag.
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