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Anti-plagiarism, Norwegian-style

Zotero: The next-generation research tool

Zotero is a free, open source extension for Firefox that enables users to collect, manage and cite research from all types of sources from the Firefox browser.  Zotero is available at http://www.zotero.org/ 

On websites that show search results such as those from library catalogues or electronic databases, Zotero, with the click of a mouse, finds and saves the full reference information for each citation to a local file.  If the source is an online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a full text local copy of the source.  Users can also add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the in-browser interface.  Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies.

Zotero is produced by the Centre for History and New Media of George Mason University and is currently available in public beta.