Zotero (http://www.zotero.org) is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension for managing and citing references and creating bibliographies. Zotero is the FOSS alternative for EndNote®, the product of Thomson ResearchSoft, a business of the Thomson Corporation.

I tested Zotero on Armenian Libraries union catalogue, on the PLoS and Birmingham Open Access repositories, and on the Library of Congress catalogue. It created bibliographic records with the needed metadata without problems. Moreover - you can create your citations and bibliographies inside of the OpenOffice. For this you need to download a small plugin from the Zotero page http://www.zotero.org/documentation/openoffice_integration . (Zotero is also compatible with the MS Word, but I haven’t tested that.)

As a result of exploring Zotero, I am planning to organize a series of training sessions for the students and young scholars in Yerevan. I found that Zotero is easy to install and manage. Within the word processing systems Zotero suggests a wide variety of citation styles, which can be used when creating citations inside of your documents.

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