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Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).

A quick DDG search lead me to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/7ilwzv/scihub_look_...

Can confirm, this works.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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Zotero rocks! I encourage all my students to use it as well even though the University has a license from Endnote. Power tip: reduce the number of characters searched from the default 500000 to more like 10000 for large (>5k) libraries otherwise I find it slows down quite a bit.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can also just set up a WebDAV server and sync that across devices. Works pretty damn well.

Huh, that's interesting! Do you know of a blog post where this is spelled out?

I use my Nextcloud install (since it provides a WebDAV interface).

In the options under the Sync tab, I select WebDAV as the File Syncing type and for the URL I put:

    my.nextcloud.server.com/remote.php/webdav
with the appropriate credentials.

Works flawlessly.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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This software is available in 30+ langauge, but not in any Indian langauge. I wonder why developers Ignore translation of softwares in Indian Languages. If dev team is reading this, please contact me. I would translate this software in Hindi language.

Update: I wonder why this comment got downvoted any without explaination. HN is not same, as it used to be.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#37
I used to use Zotero exclusively for managing citations in my papers. In the end though, I always had to correct many errors in the reference section. This is not Zotero's fault; the journal sites and indexes from which Zotero gleaned it's information are often incorrect or incomplete. Not to mention that many journals do not follow a standard MLA/APA, etc, but a custom format, which always required me to do more edits. Now days I just do it all by hand. Not sure if things have since gotten better since 4 years or so ago since I last used it.

That said, Zotero as a research tool for organizing papers by topic,etc,adding notes, is just fantastic. I really do love Zotero and it's potential.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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post #36

This software is available in 30+ langauge, but not in any Indian langauge. I wonder why developers Ignore translation of softwares in Indian Languages. If dev team is reading this, please contact me. I would translate this software in Hindi language. Update: I wonder why this comment got downvoted any without explaination. HN is not same, as it used to be.

Translators are welcome to help. Read this:

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/localization

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#40

Zotero rocks! I encourage all my students to use it as well even though the University has a license from Endnote. Power tip: reduce the number of characters searched from the default 500000 to more like 10000 for large (>5k) libraries otherwise I find it slows down quite a bit.

It makes so much sense to stimulate students to use a free tool they can keep using after they leave university or change schools, without resorting to piracy or expensive subscriptions ($250!).
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