Research Tools

The following are links to selected low cost or free 'open source' education and historical research software & tools: Videos

Education, History & Research Software Tools

• CHNM History Research Tools - The Center for History & New Media (CHNM) offers free tools and resources for historians to help collect, manage, cite, and manage research data and sources.

• ChronoZoom - An open source community project run by the Outercurve Foundation and dedicated to visualizing the history of everything.

  • Creative Commons - A non-profit organization providing free legal tools that enable the sharing and use of creative solutions and knowledge.

• Genealogy & History Software - List of open source genealogy & history software projects/products available from SourceForge.

• History Software @Amazon.Com - List of commercial History software products available from Amazon.

• Historical Markers Database - List of historic markers in Summerton and across Clarendon County, S.C.

• History & Genealogy Open Source Software - A blog listing a series of open source software products for genealogy and family history research.

• iThinkEd - Microsoft's free software tools for helping researchers publish and share information.

• National Archives Genealogy Tools - Providing links to a range of open access web sites and open source software tools.

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons - Providing access to a wide range of free and 'open' education teaching and learning materials for elementary schools, high schools, and universities.

• OpenEducationDisc - A collection of open source software products for students for computers running MS Windows.

• Scholar's Aid - A popular shareware bibliographical data manager, notes and/or information information manager for students and scholars

• SmartPhones – History & Social Study Mobile Apps - A series of free or low cost mobile History apps available from MobileTopSoft.

• South Carolina Learning Games - Learn about South Carolina and its history using interactive learning games.

• TimeLine Web Widget - A web widget that allows you can make beautiful interactive timelines to better visualize temporal data.

• Wandora - A general purpose information extraction, aggregation, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java.

• Zotero Research Tool - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.