Academia is a social networking site specifically designed for researchers where they can share papers and follow thousands of academics in over 100,000 research fields.
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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.
Confluence
A social networking and collaboration tool that enables researchers and the people they work with to create, share, discover, discuss and find content.
Google Docs
Online collaboration tool that lets researchers work and communicate with their work groups and allow them to upload, edit and share their work in real-time. Smartphone versions available.
Liquid Information
A handy online tool that lets researchers interact with all the words on the web and allow them to search, share, convert, translate and reference their work easily and efficiently.
Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network that allows researchers to organize their work, collaborate with others online and discover the latest research.
Nature Network
Nature Network is the professional networking website for scientists around the world. It’s an online meeting place where researchers can gather, share and discuss ideas, and keep in touch.
NeCTAR
National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources- an Australian Government project aimed at building new infrastructure specifically for the needs of Australian researchers allowing them to connect, share and collaborate.
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.
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.
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.
