Research Tools
Atlas.ti
A qualitative data analysis package, Atlas.ti helps researchers to organize and analyze complex textual and multimedia data. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange thousands of pieces of information, accommodating a wide range of research methods.
Conifer
A web archiving service that creates an interactive copy of any web page that you browse, including content revealed by your interactions such as playing video and audio, scrolling, clicking buttons, and so forth.
Documenting the Now
Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content.
A is a commercial reference management software package developed by Clarivate, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays, reports and articles
An online open access repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos.
A software program designed for computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text and multimedia analysis in academic, scientific, and business institutions
A reference manager which is used to manage and share research papers and generate bibliographies for scholarly articles.
A qualitative data analysis computer software package to help qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required
Tropy
Take control of your research photos with Tropy, a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them. Spend more time using your research photos, and less time searching for them.
Zotero
A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
ArcGIS Online
A tool for making interactive web maps.
CartoDB is a cloud based mapping, analysis and visualization engine that lets you build spatial applications for both mobile and the web. You can input tabular data and then construct an interactive visualization using the web interface. CartoDB provides step-by-step video tutorials for easy, medium, and advanced features.
Google Earth is a 3D mapping program from Google that provides access to satellite images of (almost) the entire planet. The premium version, Google Earth Pro, provides additional tools and is available for free. To get more information, check out this introductory guide.
Mukurtu
A free, mobile, and open source platform built with and for Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage that respects and enacts cultural protocols.
Omeka
Provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Palladio
A web-based tool for visualizing complex historical data with ease using maps, network graphs, and other forms of reading and analyzing data.
StoryMapJS
A free tool to help you tell location-based stories on the web that can include images, videos, text, and more.
Scalar
A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital, multimodal scholarship online, enabling users to assemble media and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of interactive ways.
TimelineJS
An open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.
Wax
A minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Our underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and scholarly exhibits.
AntConc
A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
Juxta Commons is a web-based tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work, create visualizations, and share your work with others. If you prefer to use a standalone desktop application, you can also download the legacy version of Juxta.
OpenRefine
A powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Overview is a tool that lets you search, analyze and cull huge volumes of text or documents. It was originally built for investigative journalists, but it's been adopted by a wide array of people including scholarly researchers and social media analysts.
Tableau Public
A free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online.
Voyant is a web-based text analysis and reading environment that's designed to make it easy for you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats. Voyant provides a range of tools for analysis and visualization.
IIIF Tools. International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs, backed by a consortium of leading academic and cultural institutions.