A discovery service for researchers to find data from a variety of research data-sets and research materials.
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.
Confluence
A social networking and collaboration tool that enables researchers and the people they work with to create, share, discover, discuss and find content.
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.
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.
Google Charts
Online tool that transforms data using a range of visualization tools.
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.
Zotero
A Web-based research tool that allows researchers to collect, organise, cite, and share research sources and data types.
ARCS Data Fabric
A national data storage system, available to all Australian researchers and free within stated limits.
CiteULike
A free service for discovering and managing scholarly references, articles and papers online.
Connotea
A free online reference manager for researchers.
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.
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.
NVIVO
NVIVO is a software product that allows you to import, sort, analyse and display data from audio, video or text files, and transcripts.
OffiSync
OffiSync supercharges Microsoft Office, enabling users to significantly improve the way they create, collaborate, and share their documents by integrating Microsoft Office with Google Docs and Google Apps.
X Marks
A free online bookmarking tool for researchers to keep track of links and websites and access them on any computer.
