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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.
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.
Dropbox
Online depository where users can drop a range of files and formats and access them anywhere online. Smartphone versions available.
Evernote
A notetaking and organising tool for text notes, snippets on Web pages, photos and screen shots. iPhone and Android versions also available.
Diigo
An information management tool to help researchers manage bookmarks, notes, highlights, documents, audio and video and more.
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.
CiteULike
A free service for discovering and managing scholarly references, articles and papers online.
Connotea
A free online reference manager for researchers.
Confluence
A social networking and collaboration tool that enables researchers and the people they work with to create, share, discover, discuss and find content.
Edistorm
An online collaboration and brainstorming application that lets users add, discuss and organize ideas from multiple locations before, during and after (or instead of) meetings.
Arxiv
Open access database for researchers to browse through 690,569 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Crowdmap
A visualization tool that allows researchers to crowdsource information from various sources like tweets and blogs and visualise it on a map and timeline.
Backupify
Backupify is a backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Zoho and many more.
DataONE
Data Observation Network for Earth- An open, persistent, robust and secure data portal that gives researchers access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.
Flare
Flare is an ActionScript library that allows researchers to create interactive data visualizations like charts and interactive graphics that run in Adobe Flash Player.