Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Zotero

There's a lot to keep track of, when producing a documentary, not the least of which are the research materials.  I'm experimenting with Zotero for research management. 

Zotero is a free plugin for Firefox that helps me keep track of what books, journals, Web pages, etc., I find material in.  Later, it will format proper citations in MLA style, which is particularly helpful to me, as I'm more of an APA-oriented person.

The citations are stored locally (on whatever computer I'm using) and sync'd with Zotero's servers.  This means my citations follow me from desktop to laptop and back again -- very important, if I'm to keep them straight throughout pre-production research.

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