{"id":28846,"date":"2016-05-16T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=28846"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:11:31","slug":"summers-here-time-organize-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2016\/05\/16\/summers-here-time-organize-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer’s Here: Time to Organize All Those Papers!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zotero is free open-source software to help you organize your research references across multiple platforms and devices. Image is in the public domain.<\/p><\/div>\n

The start of summer is a great time to get organized: perhaps you finally have time to focus on something other than the next problem set, or perhaps you\u2019re too burned out from finals to do anything else productive.\u00a0 Back in the good old days of undergrad, mathematics was a mysterious substance that emanated from textbooks, whiteboards, the mouths of my classmates, and occasionally, Wikipedia. Now that I\u2019m in graduate school, more and more of what I learn comes from journal articles, which can prove difficult to organize. When I wrote my undergraduate thesis, my papers were all printed\u00a0copies stored in an accordion folder, but as a graduate student reading hundreds of articles, this system is hardly practical.\u00a0 Luckily, there are several\u00a0reference management programs\u00a0<\/strong>that keep track of papers you\u2019ve read and generate bibliographies for you.\u00a0 After\u00a0searching through many options last winter, I finally settled on Zotero<\/a>, which I highly recommend (and no, I am not being paid to write this).<\/p>\n

I chose Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] because of the following features:<\/p>\n