Comments on: Firefox extension for humanities scholars

By: filologanoga

filologanoga — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:07:17 +0000

I can proudly report that I got Zotero to import book data from the Library of Congress. So, it really does what it promised. Nice.

By: Alexandr

Alexandr — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:42:07 +0000

Hi,
when saw your blog post yesterday, I downloaded and tested it. Looks really good. It works for me with JSTOR and various libraries listed as “compatible” and also with some which aren’t in the list. So far I found some minor let-downs (sometimes makes duplicate entries when importing multiple citations from JSTOR; high CPU usage while importing multiple citations), but generally I like it. I think it can be a very useful extension and even more so, when I’m looking at planned features.

By: Aethralis

Aethralis — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:23:35 +0000

I downloaded and tested it, and it seems to work as promised. Here is the quick guide http://www.zotero.org/documentation/quick_start_guide

I’ll give it a try considering its freeware…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:59:28 +0000

I also like the idea, as I’m currently working on the research phase of my dissertation, but I can’t find any information anywhere on how it works. It’s downloaded, but beyond that I don’t know what to do next! Any suggestions?

By: filologanoga

filologanoga — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:14:34 +0000

I like the idea immensely, but couldn’t get it to import automatically any bibliographical data from the sites they list as compatible with Zotero (including JSTOR, Google Books, and Project Muse). This was a disappointment. It could be very useful as a bibliography for everything that is in one’s computer, though. And it really works from inside Firefox — do we see a trend here? Will a browser become our text editor, bibliography manager, notebook…? (Instead of the other way round!)