avram · March 18, 2011 04:38
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 Zotero is an open-source project based at the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/">Center for History and New Media</a> at George Mason University in Virginia. The main project funding so far has come from a series of grants to get the project going and work on specific areas. Grants have covered each of the stages in the development of Zotero's groups, syncing, and other major areas of functionality. While I don't know about the project's next funding targets, it is safe to say that the project is not interested in selling subscriptions or advertising, and certainly not in acquisition. With the introduction of paid online storage (beyond 100MB), the team formed the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a not-for-profit headed by a number of academics who volunteer to run it, to segregate that operation from CHNM and GMU. While Zotero storage, the only form of subscription-based service offered, does cost more than the Amazon storage that backs it, the difference is used to help cover other server and overhead costs, but is not, as far as I know, intended to support the core development effort. New features are being added by the core team, and the community of interested users has seen a lot of activity in recent months, with a volunteer contributor producing the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/">citation engine that powers Zotero 2.1's bibliographies (and those of Mendeley)</a>, the same contributor producing <a href="http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/zotero-multilingual-overview.html">a new multilingual version</a> that's <a href="">coming soon</a>, a number of <a href="http://www.zotero.org/support/plugins">plugins</a>, a wide range of site translators, and <a href="http://www.zotero.org/styles">many citation styles</a>.

 And thanks to a very active user community, support requests on the <a href="http://forums.zotero.org">Zotero forums</a>, on Twitter, and even on unrelated blogs, are answered at least as quickly as those of the commercial, proprietary products on the market.

 Sorry if this sounds like a naked advertisement-- but I am just a very active user, and think most people would do well to explore what Zotero can offer. And a big part of that is the freedom to shape it to your personal research needs.
	Zotero is an open-source project based at the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/">Center for History and New Media</a> at George Mason University in Virginia. The main project funding so far has come from a series of grants to get the project going and work on specific areas. Grants have covered each of the stages in the development of Zotero's groups, syncing, and other major areas of functionality. While I don't know about the project's next funding targets, it is safe to say that the project is not interested in selling subscriptions or advertising, and certainly not in acquisition. With the introduction of paid online storage (beyond 100MB), the team formed the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a not-for-profit headed by a number of academics who volunteer to run it, to segregate that operation from CHNM and GMU. While Zotero storage, the only form of subscription-based service offered, does cost more than the Amazon storage that backs it, the difference is used to help cover other server and overhead costs, but is not, as far as I know, intended to support the core development effort. New features are being added by the core team, and the community of interested users has seen a lot of activity in recent months, with a volunteer contributor producing the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/">citation engine that powers Zotero 2.1's bibliographies (and those of Mendeley)</a>, the same contributor producing <a href="http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/zotero-multilingual-overview.html">a new multilingual version</a> that's <a href="">coming soon</a>, a number of <a href="http://www.zotero.org/support/plugins">plugins</a>, a wide range of site translators, and <a href="http://www.zotero.org/styles">many citation styles</a>.

	And thanks to a very active user community, support requests on the <a href="http://forums.zotero.org">Zotero forums</a>, on Twitter, and even on unrelated blogs, are answered at least as quickly as those of the commercial, proprietary products on the market.

	Sorry if this sounds like a naked advertisement-- but I am just a very active user, and think most people would do well to explore what Zotero can offer. And a big part of that is the freedom to shape it to your personal research needs.