Making life easy for essay!

I love it when software actually works

One of the problems I have had over the years with essays was the referencing of books - it took up too much time ... way too much time ... that was untill last night!

its name is Zotero and it claims to be the next generation research tool - you can find it

http://www.zotero.org/

What does it do?
Well simply it keeps a library of books you have used / you have in your library. You search for them on the internet - eg on the trinity library site or other book sites. When you find a book a wee book icon apears in the address bar click it and all the information automatically downloads onto your computer - dates, location and publisher author. It stores it in a wee database on your hard drive.

Then the cleaver bit comes when you come to ms word or open office - a new wee tool bar icon appears when you click the button after you have used a quote it will automatically stick in a footnote - then click another button at it will automatically create a Bibliography for you.


What it does is plugin to firefox web browser - so you need that first
Then download the plugin for firefox
Then download the word plugin

Then add your booklist!

I am raving about this to the extent that lastnight I stayed up late and stuck in most of the books on my shelves at college.

Happy New Year

Robert