Informal Research Practices
Collaboration & Social Scholarship
Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits
PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.
More information about Academia.edu
Rhodes University researchers on Academia.edu
ResearchGate was built for scientists by scientists, with the idea that science can do more when it is driven by collaboration
Discovery tools/engines
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-Net) is an independent, non-profit scholarly association that offers an open academic space for scholars, teachers, advanced students and related professionals
Research Data Management
Tropy
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 hunting for them.