70+ Academic Tools to Amplify Your Research and Writing
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The list is divided into six categories:
Citation Generators
These tools help researchers create uniform citations and reference lists for their sources in multiple styles, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard. If you need help forming and/or editing your citations beyond what these tools can offer, our Deluxe Academic Package can help.
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BibMe
BibMe is an automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. Its plagiarism checker also scans millions of sites and papers online to ensure researchers won't get flagged for unintentionally copying published work. (Here's another option for a plagiarism checker.)Citation Generator
Citation Generator automatically generates fully formatted AMA-style citations.Citation Machine
Citation Machine creates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard styles. Its plagiarism checker also scans millions of sites and papers on the Internet to ensure the submitted text is original.Cite This For Me
Cite This For Me helps researchers create Harvard, APA, and MLA citations for bibliographies.Citefast
Citefast formats bibliographies and title pages according to the most recent editions of the APA, MLA, and Chicago style guides.CiteMaker
CiteMaker helps researchers generate and properly format and punctuate APA citations.EasyBib
EasyBib helps researchers automatically generate bibliographical citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles.KnightCite
KnightCite is an online MLA citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College.Writinghouse
Writinghouse is a fully automated bibliography and citation maker for MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard referencing styles.
Journal Archives
These archives comprise millions of academic sources from reliable peer-reviewed publications. Some are subscription services, while others allow researchers to access full texts from periodicals, government studies, and other sources.
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Archives Hub
The Archives Hub provides a gateway to over 220 institutions across the United Kingdom, helping researchers discover unique and often little-known sources.arXiv
arXiv provides open access to over one million academic works on physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.BioLINCC
BioLINCC coordinates data and biospecimens from NHLBI-funded studies available for use in other approved studies. Researchers can search the BioLINCC database and access its documentation.DeepDyve
DeepDyve is a subscription service that provides access to over twelve million articles and creates personalized recommendations for works relevant to researchers' interests.Digital Library of the Commons
The Digital Library of the Commons provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations as well as links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.DOAJ
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journals.EThOS
EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK higher education institutions and allow free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers.Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search tool for academic literature across many disciplines, providing access to articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites.HighBeam
HighBeam provides unlimited access to more than 6,500 publications, including newspapers, magazines, journals, transcripts, and reference titles. It offers more than eighty million articles updated daily.JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform.Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the first established cultural institution in the United States and the largest library in the world, with millions of items including books, recordings, photographs, maps, and manuscripts in its collections.Microsoft Academic Search
Microsoft Academic Search is an experimental research service that explores how scholars find academic content. It indexes millions of academic publications and displays the key relationships among subjects, content, and authors, highlighting critical links that help define scientific research.Musselman Library
The Musselman Library offers a database of sources across various academic fields.National Archives Catalog
The National Archives Catalog is the online public portal to National Archives records and information. The catalog currently provides access to over two million electronic records currently in the Electronic Records Archives, which are not available elsewhere online.Paperity
Paperity is a multidisciplinary aggregator of journals and papers, giving readers easy and unconstrained access to thousands of articles from hundreds of disciplines in one central location.Paperscape
Paperscape is a tool for visualizing the arXiv, an open online repository for scientific research papers. The Paperscape map currently includes all papers from the arXiv and is updated daily.
PubMed
PubMed comprises over twenty-five million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books in the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant websites and links to other NCBI molecular biology resources.PubPeer
The PubPeer database allows users to search for and comment on articles based on unique identifiers such as DOIs, PubMed IDs, and arXiv IDs. It also offers a browser extension.Sparrho
Sparrho is a search and recommendation engine for scientific information, with a database of more than five million patents, grants, videos, and other sources.Wiki Journal Club
Wiki Journal Club is a collaborative website providing physician-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research, including landmark clinical trials.Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, delivering seamless integrated access to over six million articles, reference works, laboratory protocols, and databases.Publishing Tools
These resources provide guidance for scholars hoping to publish their findings either online for other researchers or through peer-reviewed journals. Many provide tools to help writers track the impact of their work through social media or find journals potentially interested in their research topics. Before you publish anything, you should always consider editing and proofreading.
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Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.Dryad
Dryad allows researchers and journal publishers to submit and archive data for peer review.figshare
figshare helps researchers store, share, and manage their data through a citeable archive.JournalGuide
JournalGuide is a free tool that helps researchers evaluate scholarly journals and search by journal name, category, or publisher. Authors can also use the title and abstract of a paper to discover journals that have already published articles on similar topics.Kudos
Kudos helps researchers share their work with new audiences and track the most effective networks for getting work read, discussed, and cited.ResearchGate
ResearchGate connects researchers and makes it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise.SJFinder
SJFinder helps academic writers find journals relevant to their unpublished articles.Reference Management Tools
These sites help academics manage their research sources online, tagging them with appropriate keywords or leaving comments without having to leave the browser. Some offer the option to export and import files and share research collections with colleagues.
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ACS ChemWorx
ACS ChemWorx is a collaborative reference manager through which researchers can organize and access sources on multiple devices, generating citations automatically.BibSonomy
BibSonomy helps researchers manage their sources and collaborate with colleagues by bookmarking and sharing new research material.citeulike
citeulike allows users to discover and store references online and provides automated article recommendations. Researchers can also share references with colleagues and store and search their own PDFs.colwiz
colwiz helps researchers search for and store sources, generate citations in multiple styles, and read and annotate PDFs.EndNote
EndNote allows researchers to search hundreds of online databases, import an existing PDF collection, and organize and store research and related notes and files conveniently. Its Cite While You Write bibliography creation technology aids in creating and formatting reports and manuscripts, and users can share their research with colleagues and collaborate online.Memonic
Memonic allows users to save webpages to read later and keep notes organized with a simple web interface. Users can share their sources with others and sync with mobile devices.Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that allows scholars to create a fully searchable library in seconds, cite sources while writing, and read and annotate PDFs on any device. Members can showcase work on their profiles and assess the impacts of their research.Open Science Framework
Open Science Framework helps scientists integrate all elements of their workflows online, where they can document and archive study designs, materials, and data and share these with their colleagues.Papers
Papers helps scholars collect research material, manage and cite references in multiple citation styles, and share their work with colleagues and fellow researchers online.
ReadCube
ReadCube allows researchers to store and sync sources with the cloud and to organize sources based on tags and article metadata.RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily collect and share information as well as generate citations and bibliographies.Utopia Documents
Utopia Documents is a free PDF reader that allows readers to explore cited literature more easily, creating comments and annotations for personal use or collaboration with colleagues.WizFolio
WizFolio is an online research collaboration tool through which researchers can easily manage and share all types of information in a citation-ready format, including research papers, patents, documents, books, YouTube videos, web snippets, and a lot more.Zotero
Zotero helps researchers collect and organize sources online through a searchable interface. It also provides a citation generator and encourages users to collaborate through research groups.Research Tools
These tools help scholars conduct research and collaborate with colleagues by creating online surveys, annotating or commenting on academic articles, and making personalized feeds of relevant findings in their research fields.
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CKAN
CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections of data. Users can browse and preview data using maps, graphs, and tables.ContentMine
ContentMine provides tools that allow researchers to scrape relevant scientific facts from journals and other web sources.Data Elixir
Data Elixir provides collections of science news, resources, and inspirations from around the web via weekly emails.DataBank
DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Researchers can create their own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share results.Dataverse
The Dataverse is an open-source web application through which researchers can share and cite their own data and explore others' findings.ERIC
ERIC offers an academic search engine designed to use smart search technology, with the most relevant results appearing first.
F1000
F1000 suggests relevant articles and provides a workspace in which scientists can collect, write, and discuss scientific literature. Its publishing platform for life scientists also offers immediate publication and transparent peer review.
Lazy Scholar
Lazy Scholar is a browser extension that checks scientific abstracts from Google Scholar to confirm whether a free full text is available.Lexicool
Lexicool offers a directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet for translators, linguists, language students, and all those interested in foreign languages. Note: We offer academic translation services.MyScienceWork
MyScienceWork serves a community of five hundred thousand members, allowing access to more than thirty million scientific publications and providing several collaborative tools via the Polaris platform.
ProQuest
ProQuest offers access to one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content, with a simple search interface. It also provides citation and task management tools.PubChase
PubChase allows members to store, organize, and access articles from computers and mobile devices and discover new papers based on personal library content.PubReader
The PubReader view enhances the readability of academic articles on tablets and other small-screen devices. It can also be used on desktops and laptops and from multiple web browsers.Qualtrics Research Suite
Qualtrics Research Suite offers online survey collaboration features to help researchers build and share surveys with peers.
Scrible
The Scrible bookmarklet is a small software application that allows users to save and annotate articles in browser and create a searchable library for future research.Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network disseminates research through a number of specialized networks in each of the social sciences.StatCrunch
StatCrunch allows users to share data sets, results, and reports. Each of these items is also cross referenced so users can easily find shared results for a data set of interest.
WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine that generates outputs using its own internal knowledge base instead of searching the web and returning links.Task Management Tools
These sites provide convenient workflow management services, such as notetaking and data collection tools, helping researchers store their work product securely, organize their documents, and collaborate with research team members online.
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Prof. Sumita Roy says...
On April 03, 2016