Free open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases available in many languages and works on all common computers.
Collaboration & Communication
Need help with your research? Use these tools to help you find, organise, reference, visualise and share your work. Click on the title of a tool for more information, and to vote or comment on your favourite tool.
ResearcherID
ResearcherID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community where users can connect and share.
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is an online hub for researchers, their expertise and their contacts to communicate and collaborate.
SlideShare
Allows users to upload and share presentations, documents and professional videos. Researchers can upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, gather opinions and assist them with their research.
Wiggio
A free online collaboration tool that lets researchers communicate, share data and work together through a number of ways like virtual meetings and conference calls.
Wordle
Wordle is an online visualization tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Yammer
An enterprise social network that brings together users from around the world to allow for easier group collaboration and team work. Yammer is similar to Confluence.
Zoho Projects
An online project collaboration tool for researchers to communicate and work with their group online and track their research progress.
