A notetaking and organising tool for text notes, snippets on Web pages, photos and screen shots. iPhone and Android versions also available.
Research Tools
Need help with your research? Use these tools to help you find, organize, reference, visualize and share your work. Click below to select a specific tool type and don't forget to vote and comment on your favourite tools.
Academia
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.
Dropbox
Online depository where users can drop a range of files and formats and access them anywhere online. Smartphone versions available.
Trove
Trove is a discovery experience for researchers to find and get over 250,061,012 Australian and online resources including books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and much more.
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.
WorldCat
A global data depository where researchers can search for a variety of information and data resources from libraries locally and around the world.
ColWiz
An all-in-one tool that combines a range of functionality that allows researchers to collaborate, manage different projects, organise events, mark up research content and manage references.
Science Stage
Science Stage is a universal online portal for science, advanced teaching, and research where users can stream knowledge and search a wealth of information and data.
ANDS
Australian National Data Service- Allows researchers to easily publish, discover, access and use research data using a cohesive collection of research resources from a variety of research institutions.
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.
Many Eyes
A tool that allows you to upload data, visualize it and share it with others.
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.
OpenOffice
Free open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases available in many languages and works on all common computers.
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Tableau
A free interactive tool to create interactive visualisations of data. Users can create interactive graphs, dashboards, maps and tables from virtually any data-set and embed them onto a website or blog in minutes.
