Reference Tools
Mendeley is a reference management software that allows researchers to create references, citations, and bibliographies in multiple journal styles with just a few clicks. Quickly access your library from anywhere – from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux, etc and add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop to your library.
With its research network, researchers and connect and network with over 6 million users. Users can create groups to carry out discussions, discover research, and follow curated bibliographies. There are also over 250,000 + science, technology, and health jobs to advance your career and grant info from over 5000 organizations to fund your next research!
Key Features of Mendeley:
Annotate and organize documents
Find and create groups with fellow researchers
Grant information from over 5000 organizations
Pricing:
Free with limited functionality
Paid plans start from $55/year for 5 GB to $165/year to unlimited storage
Next up is an amazing research tool by Google called Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides a quick way to broadly search for scholarly literature from one location. Look for articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from professional societies, online repositories, universities, academic publishers, and other web sites.
Researchers can also explore related works, citations, authors, and publications easily. Create a public author profile and see who’s citing your recent publication. Google Scholar also allows its users to keep up with recent developments in any area of research.
Key Features of Google Scholar:
Create a public author page
Look for information across Google’s database
Easy to use
Pricing:
Free to use
Endnote wants you to research smarter by simplifying the tiresome work of formatting bibliographies, finding full text, and searching for references. Endnote is collaborative in nature as it allows you to share selected groups of references, manage team access, and track activity and changes from one single dashboard. With smarter insights, Endnote automatically finds the impact of your references and finds the best-fit journal for your papers.
The platform also enables users to automatically create, format, and update bibliographies. Quickly export your references and full-text PDFs into EndNote and start working instantly. With a bunch of EndNote templates and plug-ins, researchers can enhance their Endnote experience and get the most of the platform.
Key Features of Endnote:
Import filters for prior research
Track your teammates’ activity on your shared library
Automatic reference and link updating
Pricing:
Free with limited functionality
Paid plans start from $249
The last tool on our list of awesome tools for researchers is a platform called ResearchGate. ResearchGate gives you access to over 135 million publication pages, allowing you to stay up to date with what’s happening in your field. With a built-in community, researchers can share their research, collaborate with peers, and discover new papers and bibliographies.
ResearchGate also provides deep analytics on who’s been reading your work and keeps track of your citations. With over 17 million users, ResearchGate is a research community to join!
Key Features of ResearchGate:
Share and find researchers
Analytics to see who’s reading your work
Citation tracking
Pricing:
Free
Typeset.io claims to be the smarter alternative to Word and Latex that all researchers should be using. Start off your research with an easy to use interface or import your existing Word files. With over 100,000+ verified journal formats to choose from, Typeform makes the process of research a bit too easy! Quickly copy-paste or upload your paper on Typeset and follow any citation style you need.
Typeset also has plagiarism and grammar checker built in to ensure your writing is error-free. Once done uploading and citing, click on autoformat to generate your report in seconds. You can also download your research in PDF, Docx, LaTeX file, or even as a Zip file. With collaboration features built-in, you can invite your fellow researchers to the platform and work together.
Key Features of Typeset:
Over 100,000+ journal formats to choose from
Plagiarism and grammar checker tool
Editing services to improve your publication chances
Pricing:
Free with limited functionality
Paid plans start from: Researcher ($8/month), Team($6/month), Journals / Publishers (contact sales)
Research work often involves hours of proofreading and spellchecking to make your research professional. Grammarly, a writing enhancement tool will save you a ton of time and effort doing this dreaded task! Apart from basic spellchecking and corrections, Grammarly includes a grammar checker, a punctuation checker, a vocabulary enhancer, and even a plagiarism checker tool!
This awesome tool scans your research for more than 250 types of grammar mistakes in six distinct writing genres and leaves you with error-free writing. With thorough explanations for all your errors and weekly progress reports., Grammarly is a must-have tool for researchers. It’s available as a browser extension, a desktop app, a web-based app, and a Microsoft add-in.
Key Features of Grammarly:
Works with the majority of online tools like Word, Slack, etc.
Plagiarism checker tool
Tone detector
Pricing:
Free with limited functionality
Paid plans start from: Premium ($11.66/month), Business ($12.50/month)
Based on the context of complete sentences, Ginger Grammar Checker uses patent-pending technology to correct grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes. The Ginger Grammar Checker helps you write better English and efficiently corrects texts. Based on the context of complete sentences, Ginger Grammar Checker uses patent-pending technology to correct grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes and misused words, with unmatched accuracy. Ginger's grammar check software improves your text just like a human reviewer would.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. 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 9,000 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.
Collaborate freely
Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.
Rest easy
Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.