NB. The lawsuit is only over the new 'beta' version which permits converting
endnotes files into zotero files...
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Subject: Re: Zotero in the news (Updated URL)
The correct URL for the story in the "Wired Campus" is:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3363/companys-lawsuit-over-free-sch
olarly-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
LIS Co-ordinator, Higher Education Academy - Information and Computer
Sciences
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