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Research Tools
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.
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.
Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine for researchers and scientists to help find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals
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.
SugarSync
SugarSync allows researchers to get their own personal cloud and store information and data and let them access it anytime anywhere online from any device.
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.
ticTOCs
An easy to use, free database of journal articles with over 14,508 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 731 publishers.
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.
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.
WorldCat
A global data depository where researchers can search for a variety of information and data resources from libraries locally and around the world.
X Marks
A free online bookmarking tool for researchers to keep track of links and websites and access them on any computer.
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.
Zotero
A Web-based research tool that allows researchers to collect, organise, cite, and share research sources and data types.
