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Using Zotero for projects

Do you need to share references with collaborators? Or make a bibliography available to a wider audience? Or crowd-source information about publications or objects? Then you may find Zotero's Groups functions useful. Zotero is software that helps researchers and students to organise references and cite them. It works in similar ways to other products like EndNote, RefWorks and Mendeley. It is distinctive however, in being run on a nonprofit, open-source basis.  As well as having a personal reference library, you can also create Groups where you share references with others. Groups can be restricted or very open. There are three types: ' private', 'public  closed' or 'public open'. Y ou can control the ability of others to edit records in the group.     Users can search, sort and browse the references and export citations if they wish. They can  read any notes or tags that have been saved. In private or closed groups,...