Zotero, the bibliography add on for Firefox, is now on version 2.0.5b and this wonderful software is saving me a lot of time at the moment, but I hit a snag. A paper I am currently working on started off in Writer using the OpenOffice biblio database. Now that I am working in Zotero I wanted a quick and simple way of getting all my references across from the original document into Zotero so that I had everything in one system. I've just spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to do this. Some of the "solutions" I've come across were more like exercises in programming but in fact it's dead simple. Open your original document in Writer, select File | Export and choose BibTex as the file format and save. A file will be created with the .bib extension (note: this isn't your entire OpenOffice biblio database, just the bibliography for the document you have open). Now in Firefox from the Zotero menu select import and open the bib file you've just saved. Job done, you now have a new collection in Zotero with all your imported references.

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