Advantages and Limitations of Zotero
Advantages:
- Zotero allows you to add note, tag, attachments to your items
- Zotero allows you to save web page snapshot and add note on the snapshot
- Zotero saves your library locally in your computer
Limitations:
- Any changes in the target page may disable the translator. The suggestions are:
- to capture items from popular sites such as Google Books, Scholar, Amazon, WorldCat, most used online databases etc
- to report the translator problems to Zotero through Troubleshooting Translator Issues
- Zotero could not prevent or remove duplicate items at the moment need to remove duplicate items manually.
- Zotero does not have as many reference sytles as RefWorks or EndNotes
- The fact that Zotero resides on your Firefox browser in your computer makes it difficult for users to share items