Analyze My Writing is an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste a text into the homepage and gain a wealth of information about your text including word and character counts, word and sentence lengths, the readability of your text, and other analyses.
Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user's search term.
Google chart tools are powerful, simple to use, and free. Try out our rich gallery of interactive charts and data tools.
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, and Google Sites.
Google Lens is an image recognition technology developed by Google, designed to bring up relevant information related to objects it identifies using visual analysis based on a neural network.
Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of our surroundings on Google Maps, consisting of millions of panoramic images. Street View’s content comes from two sources - Google and contributors. Through our collective efforts, we enable people everywhere to virtually explore the world.
Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.
Mendeley is a free reference manager program that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data:
Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you're reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
You can find both support guides for how to us it and guides on different citation formats.
Ever wonder when a certain word or phrase came into use or how often it has been used over the years. Google's Ngram Viewer plots out the frequency of word use in books over the last 500 years as well as directs you to the books that contain its use in the last 200 years. For instance, you can see the history of the term "gnarly" in books.
TinyWow provides free online conversion, pdf, and other handy tools to help you solve problems of all types.
Trello is the flexible work management tool where teams can ideate plans, collaborate on projects, organize workflows, and track progress in a visual, productive, and rewarding way. From brainstorm to planning to execution, Trello manages the big milestones and the day-to-day tasks of working together and getting things done.
Unpaywall finds the kind of articles you'd see in peer-reviewed scholarly journals like Science or PLOS One, plus pre-publication versions of similar work from preprint repositories like arXiv. Specifically, it looks for articles with a kind of identifier called a DOI. Although the best-known type of paywall is the kind in front of a newspaper or magazine article you want to read, Unpaywall doesn't help with sites like nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com.
This site is a front-end to thousands of datatasets. It allows you to 'see' the data as it should be seen: through colours and shapes. With over 12 million data points spanning 100 categories, find a dataset that interests you and explore it using a suite of interactive maps and charts. All data is fully sourced and available for download. It's designed to be easy to use and fun to learn. Features include a world map and 3d globe, alongside realtime analytical tools such as bar charts, line charts, and scatter plots. Inspired by Microsoft's Encarta from the 1990's, The Atlas mission is simple: "make important data super-accessible to everyone."
WordClouds is a word-cloud generator. Sometimes, a picture is word a 1000 words and sometimes, a picture can be a 1000 words. Word clouds are useful visuals that are composed of text. The size of each individual word is in proportion to the frequency of that word appearing in a text. For instance, if you wanted what are the repeated words in a given speech (to better understand its themes, perhaps), you can copy the text of the speech and turn it into a word-cloud. It's a great way of visualizing text to draw out the important parts.
Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work. Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 100,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication. Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your notes, files, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.