Dear Research Diary,

I have been trying out some of the bibliographic tools Livia Piotto introduced us to last week. I will be posting my experiences with them this week.

Zotero: Wow! So cool! This is especially useful for a quick session of research. I can easily save a citation for a book or article and find it with great ease later. This is especially useful since while I am at home, I do not have access to the full text of scholarly articles in many databases. So, if I collect some citations, I can easily bring my computer with me and access what I need at the university, or even export them and use another computer. I wonder, however, if I can log into my account on the Zotero website and access my references this way, without using the extension on firefox. I will have to investigate this, perhaps during my shift in the library tomorrow. In any case...this tool seems almost too good to be true. There is also a very basic and helpful guide addressing a variety of matters and explaining many tips and trips if I ever need

Update: You can easily log into the Zotero website and see "My Library" which has all of your citations.