We are launching a new series of screencasts demonstrating how Zotero enhances other online tools and services. The first screencast demonstrates how Zotero can act as a citation system for Google’s suite of tools, connecting their research repositories with their web applications. Take a look and see how easy it is to automatically capture bibliographic information from sites like Google Books and Google Scholar and simply drag and drop formated references into Google Docs.

Did you know that something special happens when you export bibliographies from Zotero into HTML? Zotero automatically embeds COinS metadata in these bibliographies. This means that any HTML bibliography exported by Zotero is also Zotero-readable. In other words, if you post this HTML on the web any Zotero user will be able to surf by and capture the references into their own Zotero library.

Exporting with embedded metadata opens the door for what we like to call “smart syllabi,” where students can capture the bibliographic information for all the readings in a course with the click of a button. You can also publish “smart publications” on the web, where a reader needs just a single click to capture one or all of your your citations. With a “smart CV” anyone interested in your work can instantly capture your entire publication history.

To export an HTML bibliography all you need to do is:

1) Right-click (or control-click) on any collection, item, or items and select “Create Bibliography.”
2) Choose the bibliographic format you want to use and choose “Save as HTML.”
3) Name your bibliography and choose where to save it.
4) Now if you open that bibliography in Firefox you will notice that you can see the folder icon. You can post this bibliography to the web, and any one with Zotero will be able to capture it.

Smart bibliographies, syllabi, CVs, and publications are just a few more examples of how Zotero continues to offer easy-to-use, intuitive, unique features for those doing research—and those they wish to communicate with.

We are excited to announce a set of seven new translators of particular interest to those who study law. Zotero users can now automatically capture Supreme Court decisions, patents, and laws and regulations. We would like to thank Bill McKinney who developed these translators for our community. Zotero has already been recognized as a great tool for lawyers and legal scholars, and these seven new translators make that all the more apparent. Give some of the new translators a try. See the full list of translators below along with examples of items you could capture.

Law Reviews
HeinOnline (Subscription Required)
e.g. 2 Marq. Sports L. J. 175 (1991-1992)Drugs vs. Privacy: The New Game in Sports; Palmer, Charles A.

Laws/Statutes/Regulations
U.S. Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)
e.g. Title 24: Housing and Urban Development.

Legal Information Institutes
Australasian and New Zealand Legal Information Institute
e.g. The Queen v Shen (NZLII).

British and Irish Legal Information Institute
e.g. Novartis Ag v IVAX Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd.

Canadian Legal Information Institute
e.g. Hsuen v. Ontario Municipal Board Churchill-Basswood Developments Inc..

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
e.g. John Bruce Hubbard, Petitioner v. United States

USPTO
e.g. United States Patent: 7150217 – Protective body armor.

As Zotero continues to gain momentum, we thought we’d again take the opportunity to share some of the enthusiastic responses from our users. Here is a little bit of what people are saying:

“Zotero is making me super happy this week… Rumor has it that once you’re done researching, it can even build you a bibliography, which is freaking awesome. Highly recommended.”
~Author Ariel Meadow Stallings

Zotero is a “powerful tool for capturing the expert analysis and retrieval essential to health sciences librarianship.”
~Mark Desierto, Medical Library Association Newsletter April 2007

“If you write and use citations and references in your writing (lawyers, that would be you), you need Zotero… It’s totally free, open source, and completely awesome… I expect that Zotero will be the new standard in research/reference management.”
~Brandy Karl, an independent copyright, trademark and business attorney in Boston

“The user interface is a joy! No need to enter editing mode or save changes! It downloads in a few seconds…This is how software should work. Go get it!”
~Gustaf Brandberg, a Digital Business Managament Consultant at TietoEnator Digital Innovations

“Zotero, a break-through project out of George Mason University, promises to make digital metadata much more a part of the daily lives of scholars.” It “saves researchers a great deal of tedium and reduces annoying typographic errors in building up their reference databases.”
~Archaeologist Eric Kansa

“Zotero is best experienced though I hope your curiosity is whetted by reading about its capabilities. If you do any kind of research I recommend that you give Zotero a try.”
~Mack Lundy Librarian at the College of William and Mary

“Zotero’s strength is its congruency with the academic work flow. I continue to be impressed with Zotero and I still highly recommend it as a bibliography tool. If you haven’t tried it yet, what are you waiting for?”
~Laura Blankenship, Senior Instructional Technologist at Bryn Mawr College

Zotero “is necessary for Firefox. Be sure to add it to your browser.”
~Writer Anne Cagle

We are excited to announce that the recently released Netscape Navigator 9.0 is Zotero-compatible. The newest version of Navigator is built on Firefox 2.0 which means Zotero can plug right into the Navigator browser. Netscape users can click the red download button just like Firefox users. We should also mention that the development version of Flock is based on Firefox 2.0 and is also Zotero-compatible.