The correct URL for the story in the "Wired Campus" is:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3363/companys-lawsuit-over-free-scholarly-organization-tool-generates-buzz
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Subject: Zotero in the news
I spotted an article in "Wired Campus" which I thought might be of interest to members of this list: "Company's Lawsuit Over Free Scholarly Organization Tool Generates Buzz". This relates to a lawsuit by Thomson Reuters Inc. against George Mason University over the university's free reference management software - Zotero: <http://www.zotero.org/> - alleging that the free software tool made by the university makes improper use of the company's EndNote citation software. The major issue is whether the programmers at George Mason University "reverse-engineered EndNote to create a free program called Zotero, which can import files created by EndNote and turn them into files that can be used and shared online using Zotero".
I downloaded and "played" with Zotero last year after seeing it mentioned in ResourceShelf
(http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/09/30/bibliographic-tool-mark-of-zotero/) and thought it had great potential for individuals who did not have access to reference management software via their employer and/or university.
Alison
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Alison McNab
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