Bibliography made easy with Zotero

Collecting bibliographic information and keeping them in order might become a complicated task. However things are made simpler thanks to Zotero a Firefox 3.0 extension that allows references to be captured directly from scientific search engines, and to store them in a easily manageble database, together with attachment (for example the paper in PDF format), noted and abstracts. Zotero can export the references in Bibtex format, and integrates with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer, to allow the references to be inserted in a straightforward manner. Moreover, the database and the attachments are indexed, and can be searched. The list of references can be organized in a multi-level library, and the whole library can be stored on a remote server or easily backupped to move it to another system.