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  • In the root directory of the Zotero extension, you'll see license.txt with the Educational Community License (an OSI-certified license that several other big educational open source projects, like Sakai, use). We'll add the license header to the Wor…
  • Sorry for the delayed response, abelmora. Could you explain in a little more detail what you're trying to do?
  • Sorry for the late response to your comment, jmdelane. Could you explain a little more what this feature would look like?
    in Hoist Comment by dancohen March 5, 2007
  • A new translator for this system was pushed out last week--are you still having the problem?
  • Thanks for your thoughtful posts here and on your blog, Peter. We have had some discussion (as you might have seen) about linking Zotero to various word processors in the forums and also on the dev list. As we noted there, the Word plug-in, while fu…
  • Thanks for your helpful comparison, udvranto. A couple of points: 1) With the current version of Zotero you can already create unlimited notes on an item (not just one), and in the next version (beta 4, due shortly) you'll also be able to put a…
  • Thanks--we're aware of this and we're working on it. The fixed translator will be sent automatically to your copy of Zotero when we're done.
  • Thanks for the suggestions, Yam. We have had other suggestions for different layouts--vertical rather than horizontal, tabs, etc. For now we're focusing on our core layout (some of these other layouts pose some problems for actions like drag and dro…
  • As noted in the FAQ, Zotero data is stored in a subdirectory of your Firefox profile. On a Mac, you'll usually find that directory here: /Users//Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//zotero While we are planning more sophisticated methods …
  • The plug-in for Word, which will do APA in-text references, is available now: http://www.zotero.org/documentation/microsoft_word_integration We're calling it an "alpha" since it's a first release, but it works quite well (though as you can…
  • Thanks for your kind words, malmarz. We currently don't have plans for drag and drop into IM or email (though that would be great), but we do have big plans for providing several ways to easily share references. We will be rolling these methods out …
  • Thanks for the invite, mmc. We have indeed been following hCite with great interest and would definitely like Zotero to recognize it in addition to other embedded formats we are already supporting (like COinS) and working on (like unAPI). I've just …
  • Thomas-- We got a little sidetracked by the holidays, but the release of b3 is imminent--we're testing it in house right now. It's packed with a lot of new features and a lot of new translators, including the Web of Science translator, so it should…
  • Currently there's not an automatic way of doing this (and it would be hard to implement since PDFs don't have a common place that citation information is stored). You could grab the citation information automatically by finding these articles (alas,…
  • We're trying to get a little more organized about release schedules; bear with us. We should have a major upgrade (1.0.0b3) out within a week, with a lot of new features.
  • We will be providing a way to synchronize collections between computers and to share collections in a group in 2007. We're also working on an easy way to synch parts of Zotero collections (i.e., links) with del.icio.us and other web services.
  • We're glad that you are finding Zotero to be a helpful tool, Yesan. We do have the Turabian (Chicago Manual of Style) footnote style as an option for citation export, and we are working on the bibliography style (we should have it in the next month …
  • For those who are unaware of this feature, you can click on the little "spreadsheet" icon above the vertical scroll bar in the middle pane (top and far right of the pane) to get a menu of columns you can add (or subtract) from the middle pane. We do…
  • Jon: You're right that we are planning integration with these web services as well as many others (e.g., Connotea, CiteULike) in addition to our own information exchange server. In fact, if you look at the developer documentation (another tab in the…
  • We plan on adding other item types in the future, and we are also planning on adding more free-form item types, such as "document." There is also the possibility of user-altered/enchanced/created item types, though how to do that well and permit sha…
  • We do have support for electronic journals (e.g., through InfoTrac; see http://www.zotero.org/translators/), but you are probably looking at an electronic journal that is not supported yet (by supported, we mean that a little article icon will appea…
  • Although we are indeed focusing on some of the more academic aspects, such as rigorous citation management, we do plan to have many of the features that Scrapbook has. We will definitely have the much-desired yellow highlighter in the near future, a…
  • We are working on Word integration, and it's a top priority. We'll let everyone know when it's available. As noksagt has pointed out in another thread, it is possible to export citations to RTF and then paste that into Word. But we'll have a much mo…
  • I believe we are currently having a problem with our translator (the little bit of code that grabs citation information automatically from a website) for Sirsi-powered OPACs. It is a little odd that your friend was able to get the citation; we'll co…
  • Thanks for pressing us on this issue, Bill. I think it's an important one, and I could probably write a lot on the issue, but I hope this short note suffices. Perhaps the most simple answer to your question is a pragmatic one. We can't really r…
  • We're aware of this problem with Ubuntu and are looking into a solution.
  • Thanks for these comments--we do have accessibility in mind for upcoming releases and will work on this issue.
  • Thanks for these helpful comments--we'll look into these issues.
  • A new citation will go into My Library if no particular collection is selected, but if you select (highlight) a particular collection first, new citations will go into that collection (as well as into My Library, as always). A prompt after clicking …
  • I'm not sure I understand the behavior you're talking about. The height of the Zotero window should remain the same regardless of the item you've selected in the middle column (and is adjustable by sliding the edge of the window up and down), and th…