ONLINE RESEARCH TOOLS
Keeping Track of Citations
CiteULike - A free service for managing and discovering scholarly references. More than 6,000,000 articles. Easily store references you find online. Discover new articles and resources. Automated article recommendations. Share references with your peers.Store and search your PDFs.
Connotea - Saving references in Connotea is quick and easy. You do it by saving a link to a web page for the reference, whether that be the PubMed entry, the publisher's PDF, or even an Amazon product page for a book. Connotea will, wherever possible, recognise the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you.
Zotero - Plugin for the Firefox browser. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself
Finding Information
Dogpile - A metasearch engine (searches multiple search engines at once.)
Google Books - Researching a topic? Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free
HathiTrust - HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections. HathiTrust will quickly expand to include additional partners and to provide those partners with an easy means to archive their digital content.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg offers over 39,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Qwika - Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims are to cover all wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.
Technorati - Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati is the leading blog search engine and directory, indexing more than a million blogs. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere. Technorati publishes high quality, fully edited, original content daily on a wide range of topics, written by hundreds of member writers.
Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Also includes access to Wikibooks (free textbooks and manuals), Wikiquote (collection of quotations), Wikispecies (directory of species), Wikiversity (free learning materials and activities), and Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus). Remember to always verify information found on wikis with another source!
Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram|Alpha is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge.
It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports. It is a computational knowledge engine, not a search engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
CiteULike - A free service for managing and discovering scholarly references. More than 6,000,000 articles. Easily store references you find online. Discover new articles and resources. Automated article recommendations. Share references with your peers.Store and search your PDFs.
Connotea - Saving references in Connotea is quick and easy. You do it by saving a link to a web page for the reference, whether that be the PubMed entry, the publisher's PDF, or even an Amazon product page for a book. Connotea will, wherever possible, recognise the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you.
Zotero - Plugin for the Firefox browser. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself
Finding Information
Dogpile - A metasearch engine (searches multiple search engines at once.)
Google Books - Researching a topic? Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free
HathiTrust - HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections. HathiTrust will quickly expand to include additional partners and to provide those partners with an easy means to archive their digital content.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg offers over 39,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Qwika - Qwika is a search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims are to cover all wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.
Technorati - Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati is the leading blog search engine and directory, indexing more than a million blogs. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere. Technorati publishes high quality, fully edited, original content daily on a wide range of topics, written by hundreds of member writers.
Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Also includes access to Wikibooks (free textbooks and manuals), Wikiquote (collection of quotations), Wikispecies (directory of species), Wikiversity (free learning materials and activities), and Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus). Remember to always verify information found on wikis with another source!
Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram|Alpha is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge.
It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports. It is a computational knowledge engine, not a search engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
