33 Tools for Researchers

Information Searching

One of the search engines. You can simply Google anything!

www.google.com

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

https://scholar.google.com

Zetoc is one of the world’s most comprehensive research databases, giving you access to over 29,000 journals and more than 52 million article citations and conference papers through the British Library’s electronic table of contents.

http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk/

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education.

http://eric.ed.gov/

Storage

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with collaborators. FREE 15 GB

https://www.google.com/drive/

Dropbox is a personal cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. FREE 2 GB / up to 16BG to refer friends

https://www.dropbox.com/

Box is an online file sharing and personal cloud content management service for businesses. The company adopted a freemium business model, and provides up to 10 GB of free storage for personal accounts

www.box.com

Adrive is an online storage and backup service that gives 50GB space for free. Its ad supported and basic plan users get some common features only.

http://www.adrive.com/personal_basic

Writing

The most common tool used for writing, MS Word has some Advanced Features that are useful for thesis Writing.

Free with Microsoft Office

Easy to write online, the documents are stored in Google Drive making it easy to access it virtually. Easy to collaborate especially with your supervisors.

https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allow you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/trial.php

It is an online platform, similar to blog but with the focus on the habits of writing 750 words a day. Try it!

http://750words.com/

Referencing

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Not Free, but normally universities will have licenses for students.

http://endnote.com/

Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application (available for Windows, OS X and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers. FREE

https://www.mendeley.com/features/

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. FREE

https://www.zotero.org/

Citavi helps you manage your sources and search for new ones – in your university's library catalog, too. Avoid chaos — and plagiarism. Highlight important text passages in PDFs and click to save them in Citavi, along with their source information and page numbers. FREE

https://www.citavi.com/

Refworks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

https://www.refworks.com/

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

http://latex-project.org/

Analysing Qualitative Data

ATLAS.ti is one of the most powerful tools for qualitative data analysis. Managed documents, multi-document view, high-performance multimedia engine, intuitive margin-area coding for all data types, and much more.

www.atlasti.com

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by QSR International. It has been designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

www.nvivo.com

Dedoose is a SaaS application which facilitates the coding and analysis of qualitative data and their integration with demographic and other quantitative data. Normally used in a mixed method research or study.

www.dedoose.com

MAXQDA is a professional software for qualitative and mixed methods data analysis for Windows and Mac, which is used by thousands of people world wide.

http://www.maxqda.com/

Analysing Quantitative Data

SPSS

SPSS is a Windows based program that can be used to perform data entry and analysis and to create tables and graphs. SPSS is capable of handling large amounts of data and can perform all of the analyses covered in the text and much more.

http://www.spss.co.in/index.aspx

STATA

Stata is a complete, integrated statistical software package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.

http://www.stata.com/

SAS

SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a software suite developed by SAS Institute for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.

http://www.sas.com/en_my/home.html

Editing and Proofreading

Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating student work. The company's cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students.

http://turnitin.com/

Grammarly is the world's leading automated proofreader. It checks for more than. 250 types of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, enhances vocabulary usage and suggests citations.

www.grammarly.com

PaperRater.com is a free resource that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to help students write better.

https://www.paperrater.com/

Slick Write is a powerful, free tool that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest.

https://www.slickwrite.com

Connecting with other researchers

Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field.

https://www.academia.edu/

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

http://www.researchgate.net/

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher

http://orcid.org/

Mendeley has a large database of researchers and their published papers. Researchers can easily find anyone to follow and collaborate on any research.

https://www.mendeley.com/people

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