Zotero with 15GB free file storage?

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have been using Zotero as my bibliography management software since 2013 (migrating from EndNote) and have generally been happy with it (and I blogged about it before). Although our university provides EndNote access, most students will lose “free” access after leaving the university. A yearly subscription to EndNote used to set you back about €100 (in Finland via a reseller), which is an unnecessary expense in a student’s budget. EndNote’s “one-time purchase” model is, imho, deceptive marketing, because you are not eligible to major upgrades, which are released approximately yearly. The “upgrade fee” is usually about the same as the yearly subscription used to be.

University helpdesk recommends Zotero, but does not provide meaningful support

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

With the end of last year (31.12.2021), the University of Helsinki discontinued licensing its default bibliographic software tool RefWorks . Strangely, you cannot license RefWorks as an individual. That means when your academic affiliation ends, there is no way for you to continue using the software. Perhaps, the current owner of RefWorks (Clarivate) will kill it completely because RefWorks is a direct competitor of Endnote , which is the reference management solution that Clarivate is focussing on, given Endnote’s integration with Publons and the Web of Science (WoS), which is best known for its Impact Factor . Not coincidentally, Clavivate is owned by Thomson Reuters, which is the company that litigated against Zotero for offering its users the possibility to convert proprietary EndNote citation style sheets into the interoperable and standard CSL format . The recommended replacement for RefWorks is Zotero . I have no problem with this since I like Zotero and have been using it as my default bibliography management tool for now more than 10 years. On top of the fact that it is free, it combines two important features, which make it unique and superior to commercial solutions:

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Zotero with 15GB free file storage?

University helpdesk recommends Zotero, but does not provide meaningful support