This Thursday, June 7th, Zotero travels to Indiana for a presentation at the New Media Consortium’s Summer Conference and at IUPUI’s Polis Center. The NMC demonstration is from 10:15-11:00 a.m. in room IT 295 of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex at IUPUI. The demo through the Polis Center is from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in room 508 at the Cavanaugh Building.

Next Monday, June 11th, Dan Cohen and Trevor Owens will give a presentation at the Library of Congress titled “Zotero: A Personal Research Assistant Inside Your Browser.” The presentation is from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Mumford Room on the 6th Floor, James Madison Memorial Building. Those interested in attending the talk should arrive early, allowing extra time for security checks at the entrance to the library.

Zotero recently marked the sixth-month anniversary of its initial beta release. Our exponential growth of new users continues; last month we registered over 129,000 unique IP addresses. By all accounts Zotero is doing remarkably well, for which we’d like to thank our loyal user community.

As Zotero continues to mature into an increasingly powerful research tool, we thought it would be valuable to lay out the long view for our users. Zotero is here to stay. We are committed to providing a sustainable open source alternative to other research tools for years to come.

Because Zotero was conceived by scholars for other scholars, teachers, students, and anyone else doing research on the web, we understand how important it is for users to have full control over their content. From the start we have endeavored to build an open, safe environment in which users can store and access their data. With Zotero, your information is your own. Because we support every major metadata standard for bibliographic records (and are collaborating with other individuals and groups to develop even more), users are free to import and export content into and out of Zotero without worrying about being locked into a proprietary system.

As new upgrades to Zotero become available over the next year, you can rest assured that the Zotero team will continue to promote the easy exchange of information across disparate platforms, formats, and standards.

After all, it’s your research, and you should be free to do what you like with it.

This Tuesday, May 1st, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., George Washington University’s American Studies Department is hosting an Introduction to Zotero workshop. The workshop will be held on the second floor of the American Studies building at 2108 G St. Space is limited, so if you would like to attend the workshop please email trevor@zotero.org.

For Zotero enthusiasts on the West Coast, this Thursday Dan Cohen will talk about Zotero and digital research at the Stanford Humanities Center from 1-3 p.m. The presentation will be held in room 121A Green Library.

The servers at the Center for History and New Media will again be down for scheduled maintenance on Sunday, April 29 starting at 7:30 am EDT. Service should be restored by 10 am EDT at the very latest. These service updates will affect all CHNM sites, including www.zotero.org. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The servers at the Center for History and New Media will be down for scheduled maintenance on Sunday, April 22 starting at 8 am EDT and lasting from 4-12 hours (we hope no more than 6 hours). These service updates will affect all CHNM sites, including www.zotero.org. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.