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Many people coming to Zotero already have extensive collections stored in other reference management software. The following information describes how to make the move from EndNote to Zotero, but the same basic steps apply to many other reference management systems.

How to Import From EndNote
In EndNote, select “Output Styles” from the Edit menu. From the list of output styles select RefMan (RIS). (If you do not see RIS as an option, you’ll need to download the style from the EndNote site.) It could also be that the style is not enabled.  You may have to go open the Output Styles Manager from the Edit menu, enable RIS, then close the manager before it’s an option.) Once RefMan (RIS) is set as the format, select “Export” from the File menu. In the Export window that pops up, choose “Text Only”, select the RIS output style immediately below “Text Only” in the dialog, and hit “Save.” After exporting from EndNote, click on the gear icon () above the left column in your Zotero pane and select Import from the pull-down menu. In the filesystem window that pops up, locate the RIS file you exported from EndNote and select “Open.” Your references should be imported into Zotero.

If you have any issues related to importing and exporting references, try searching the forums. You may well find quick tips to help you solve your problem. If your search doesn’t turn up the answer you were looking for, post your question to the forums. This is the quickest way to get information from the Zotero team.

We would like to invite users to try the alpha release of Zotero MS Word integration. This preliminary release supports MLA and APA formats for in-text citations and bibliographies, as well as Chicago style for footnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies. There are still kinks to be worked out, but we know how important this feature is to many of our users and wanted to let people start playing with it now.

The plugin has been tested with Word 2004 for Mac and Word 2002 (Office XP) and 2003 for Windows. Please see the documentation page for installation instructions and usage information.

The Beta 3 release of Zotero includes many new or improved site translators for popular web-based scholarly resources, ranging from relatively small collections of individual journals, such as Nature, to large-scale database aggregators, such as Ovid. With the modified Aleph and Sirsi translators, Zotero should now be fully compatible with a host of additional university library OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs). We’ve also updated our Ovid translator, giving users enhanced access to some of the most influential databases, full-text journals, and academic content in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

As part of our commitment to internationalization, Zotero users can now automatically capture metadata from Amazon sites around the world.

Other translator highlights:
ISI Web of Science: indexes thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research, including the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

IEEE: indexes and in many cases provides full-text access to electrical engineering and computer science literature.

Factiva: indexes news- and business-related sources, including newspapers, newswires, magazines, and radio and television transcripts.

New translators in Beta 3:

ScienceDirect
Ovid
Blackwell Synergy
SpringerLink
Nature
IEEE Xplore translator
Factiva
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
ACM
Web of Science (but not Web of Knowledge CrossSearch)
HighWire (Oxford Journals, Science, etc.)
AMS MathSciNet
ACS Publications

Updated translators in Beta 3

Amazon (now supports international sites and retrieves data from Amazon’s API)
Google Scholar
SIRSI
RIS
InnoPAC
JSTOR
InfoTrac
Embedded RDF

Translators added via repository since Beta 2 Release 2

arXiv.org
CrossRef
CiteBase

Translators updated via repository since Beta 2 Release 2

Google Books (site update)
Aleph
NYTimes (TimesSelect content)
PubMed (page numbers now supported)
COinS
ABC-Clio Serials Web

You can find a list of other compatible databases, library catalogs, and online resources here. Please be aware, however, that this is an incomplete inventory. Because we are constantly adding and refining translators, we encourage users to test sites for compliance rather than relying exclusively on our documentation. If there are additional site translators you would like to see, let us know on the Zotero forums.

Earlier this week one of the more Francophile Zoterons here at the Center came across this fantastic French user guide. The Center for History and New Media is committed to making Zotero an international multi-lingual application and we are grateful for CIERA’s development of this French documentation. In a similar development yesterday a blogger posted a Japanese intro to Zotero on the blog PoP*PoP.

While we plan to develop user guides for a diverse set of languages we would be happy to fold in guides developed by non-anglophone users. If you would like to work on a guide for Zotero in another tongue, or have already put something together on Zotero, please contact trevor@zotero.org. We would be happy to offer any assistance we can. We are excited to connect French and Japanese users to Zotero through these guides, as each brings us one step closer to better connecting people of all languages to their research through Zotero.