If I was researching and writing academic papers I’d be using Zotero for sure, but I’ve also found another use that might just entice me in!

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.  It’s features are described as including :

• Automatically capture citations
• Remotely back up and sync your library
• Store PDFs, images, and web pages
• Cite from within Word and OpenOffice
• Take rich-text notes in any language
• Wide variety of import/export options
• Free, open source, and extensible
• Collaborate with group libraries
• Organize with collections and tags
• Access your library from anywhere
• Automatically grab metadata for PDFs
• Use thousands of bibliographic styles
• Instantly search your PDFs and notes
• Advanced search and data mining tools
• Interface available in over 30 languages
• Recommendation engine and RSS feeds

I love Kathryn Greenhill‘s ‘Librarian’s Matter’ blog;  there’s generally something to grab my attention. Her recent post ‘Zotero and saving FlickR images: Wowza‘ includes the following Youtube clip:

You’ll probably noticed how much I use and love CC FlickR images so I’m definitely going to be giving this one a go.