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What is Zotero?Last updated: Sep 22, 2025

Zotero is a free tool that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use and lives in your web browser where you do your work. It also has a Microsoft Word plug in to help create citations and your bibliography directly into your paper.

Zotero is primarily a program that runs on your own computer. If you choose to create an account and sync your data, you’ll also have access to your web library on zotero.org. However, while the web library allows you to view and edit your data and access synced files, for full functionality you’ll want to install Zotero on each synced computer.



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