Interesting new research tool

It's probably not of interest to a lot of you, but if you do any web-based research for writing, you'll want to have a look at Zotero. David Neeley sent this link to the Techwr-L mailing list with the following recommendation:

One incredibly useful add-on for firefox, by the way, is Zotero. Created by the folks at George Mason University, it is designed for online research. You can capture bibliographic data from various journal and book sites "automagically" as well as do web page captures, links, list related references, make either free-form or cut-and-paste notes, and more. Then, you can export bibliographic information in standard formats if you wish to do a formal paper.

I've installed it and started playing around with the features, and it's the sort of thing the web is made for: a well-designed tool for a specific purpose that does almost everything you could want to make that task easier. I haven't given it a real road-test, but on first inspection I'm very impressed. Give it a try.