- Automatically capture citations
- Remotely back up and sync your library
- Store PDFs, images, and web pages
- Cite from within Word and OpenOffice
- Take rich-text notes in any language
- Wide variety of import/export options
- Free, open source, and extensible
- Collaborate with group libraries
- Organize with collections and tags
- Access your library from anywhere
- Automatically grab metadata for PDFs
- Use thousands of bibliographic styles
- Instantly search your PDFs and notes
- Advanced search and data mining tools
- Interface available in over 30 languages
- Recommendation engine and RSS feeds
The ability to export citations in APA format is a tremendous asset for student and faculty publications. For me, this one of the biggest distinguishing features and one that would make me more likely to recommend it to students.
I had previously put the USB version of Firefox on my flash drive, so I downloaded and installed Zotero on the drive as well. It works very well and you can synchronize the flash drive documents and citations with the web version.
While it works only with Firefox it is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Evernote has versions for both Windows and Macs and works with both IE and Firefox.
Both Evernote and Zotero would be excellent tools to create a repository for a Personal Learning Environment.
