18 July 2007 - 16:33some aid in writing web-based scientific papers

You know the scene: you’re just about to write a paper which refers to some websites and three weeks later you get bugged by someone saying that the referenced page doesn’t exist any more. There are some ways to handle the situation: you could save the page as HTML or make a screenshot, but that’s not that cool. Think of managing your sources, of linking them into the paper. Sounds pretty time-consuming, doesn’t it? Seems like you’re doomed to manual managing web-sources and in-paper-sources? Definitely not! There’s help around. Zotero is a firefox plugin which does exactly that job for you. Manage links for offline use? No problem, just choose your output format. Manage them for in-paper use? Just say which tool you use and it’s going to export the information into your preferred format. And: it is free! Heaven on earth, you say? Perhaps…