3/17/2023 0 Comments Endnote vs zoteroPerhaps a colleague has just handed you a hardcopy of a book they recommend – scan the barcode with a mobile device and bring the bibliographic details across to Zotero from there. Got a folder of PDF files? Simply drag and drop into your library and ask Zotero to retrieve the metadata – this finds all the citation information for your PDFs, creates entries for them, and then handily attaches the PDFs. With Zotero I can visit a webpage that contains a reference (or references) and click a button in the address bar – hey presto, the information is saved in my Zotero library. This was also easy in EndNote, but not to the same extent. So why do I love Zotero so much? What initially grabbed me was the ease of importing reference information. On the hunt for a possible replacement I stumbled across Zotero – I still remember how excited I was the day I discovered it (which makes me wonder if I need to get out more!). Somewhere around EndNote 9 I started to lose enthusiasm due to the combination of technical glitches and seeing so many students use it badly (not a reflection on the students involved, it just wasn’t particularly intuitive). I was a pretty big fan for years – I think I must have facilitated several hundred EndNote training courses when I worked at The University of Auckland, and I certainly used it for both my master's and PhD theses. ![]() ![]() I was an early adopter of EndNote – I hate to show my age, but I started using it when Endnote 2 was around.
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