Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources. It’s the best of all tools that I have ever used to manage personal research library.
Some Awesome Features
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Items in Zotero libraries can be organized with collections and tags.
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Zotero’s sync functionality allows you to access your Zotero library on any computer with internet access. Zotero syncing has two parts: data syncing and file syncing. Zotero file sync works with WebDAV servers, for example, Iianguyun. If you read Chinese, a guide on setting up the WebDAV server with Jianguoyun can be found here https://help.jianguoyun.com/?p=3168.
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Zotero detects duplicates and allows merging duplicates.
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The Zotero Connector browser extensions allow you to add items to your Zotero library with the click of a button in a browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Safari.
Some Awesome Add-ons
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- Automatically generate citation keys.
- Generate citation keys based on contents of your items using citekey formulas.
- Set your own, stable citation keys, drag and drop LaTeX citations, add other custom BibLaTeX fields.
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Automatically download PDFs for items with a DOI from SciHub.
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Automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs between Zotero library to a (mobile) PDF reader, and extract annotations from PDF files.
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Auto-fetch DOI names for journal articles using the CrossRef API, as well as look up shortDOI names using http://shortdoi.org.
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Preview items in either the top/bottom of the info pane or the preview pane.
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Manage all your Tags in one Zotero add-on.
- Automatically add /unread tag for new items and remove /unread after read
- Support batch processing with tags
- Manage tags with custom rules
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- Copy, paste, and remove sets of tags
- Select and right-click to relate several items
- Copy items to the clipboard in several formats
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Remove the broken & duplicate attachment link of the bibliography