Zotero Institution

The ETH Library has licensed Zotero Institution for the ETH community. This gives members of ETH Zurich unlimited storage space when using the reference management software program external page Zotero.

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a free-​to-use, platform-​independent and cloud-​based reference management software program. It offers a wide range of options for managing references, working with PDFs and creating bibliographies.

What can Zotero do?

  • Platform-​independent: can be used by Windows, macOS or Linux devices and by mobile devices
  • Open-​source software with an external page active community
  • Automatic synchronisation (if desired) of the literature collection via the cloud
  • Easy transfer of references from a wide variety of databases, library catalogues, Google Scholar, etc., and automatic import with the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or the Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  • Joint work in external page groups on literature collections and projects
  • Automatic creation of literature lists/bibliographies via external page plug-​ins in various text processing programs; wide selection of predefined citation styles
  • Many free external page plug-​ins that expand and enrich the program, such as automatic renaming of PDFs and a barcode scanner

Download

The Zotero software can be downloaded free of charge from the external page provider’s website.

To take advantage of free storage space, please use your ETH email address.

You can find more information in the external page documentation for Zotero.

Legal information

Zotero’s terms of use are specified in the external page Zotero Terms of Service. You must agree to these in order to use Zotero.

Please also take note of the external page provisions of the Privacy Policy and the information on external page dataprotection.

When using scientific software, the Guidelines for Research Integrity at ETH Zurich must be observed.


Contact

Petra Gehrmann
  • +41 44 633 29 04
Petra Gehrmann
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