Research Tools

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Academia.edu

Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for free. A study published in PLOS ONE found that papers uploaded to Academia receive a 69% boost in citations over 5 years.

ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

Open Knowledge Maps

Open Knowledge Maps is a visual interface to the world’s scientific knowledge. The base for this interface consists of so-called knowledge maps, a powerful tool to explore a research field and to increase the visibility of research findings for science and society alike. 

Mendeley

Mendeley is a company based in London, UK, which provides products and services for academic researchers. It is most known for its reference manager which is used to manage and share research papers and generate bibliographies for scholarly articles.

Zotero

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.

EEWOWW

EEWOWW is an online service that streamlines the research process. It provides an integrated platform to organize ideas, manage information, format manuscripts, ensure originality and maximize visibility. It is the cradle nursing your ideas into reality.

Zooniverse

Zooniverse is a citizen science web portal owned and operated by the Citizen Science Alliance. It is home to some of the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects.

nQuire

nQuire is a platform to explore yourself and your world. It has been developed by The Open University in partnership with the BBC.