Tools

Organizing

Sente

Sente was a full-featured reference manager for Macs, iPads and iPhones. It helped users build, organize and use very large research libraries so they will always be in control of their research literature. The website has been offline since September 2017.

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Organizing

RefWorks

RefWorks allows users to create personal databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases. The databases can then be used to manage, store, and share the information. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. RefWorks allows you to… Organize and create a personal database online – no more index cards to write out and organize. Everything is done automatically as you import the reference into RefWorks. Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds – this saves hours of typing time and decreases the number of errors in creating tedious bibliographies. Easily make changes to your paper and reformat in seconds. Import references from a variety of databases using the already created Import Filters. Manage Alerts – RefWorks has incorporated a RSS feed reader to allow you to establish links to your favorite RSS feeds and import data from those feeds directly into RefWorks. Searching your RefWorks database is fast and easy – RefWorks automatically creates author, descriptor and periodical indexes when importing so you just click on the word to perform the retrieval. Use Quick Search to search all fields for the most comprehensive results or Advanced Search to narrow your search to specific terms and fields.

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Search

Referencer

Referencer is a Gnome application to organize documents or references. You can also generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer is able to automatically acquire bibliographic information (metadata) for some kinds of documents once the file (usually PDF) is added to the library.

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Analysis

Qigga

Qiqqa is a research management software that allows you to organize large numbers of papers; find new papers to read and new information about papers you already have; review materials and create annotation reports. Qiqqa has several PDF tools that also allow you to convert from PDFs to text, and use a clipboard function to cut and paste text into your document.

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Uncategorized

Purdue OWL

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. As a member of the Writing Lab community, you can find information to assist with various writing projects. Teachers and trainers can also use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction. No commercial use of the Purdue OWL is permitted.

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Annotating

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.

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Creation

VUVOX

VUVOX ("visual voice") was an easy to use production and sharing service that allowed you to instantly create and share stories. You could create, mix, and personalize media - videos, photos and music - to share with others. More information is available at https://sites.google.com/site/glogsterandvuvox/home/vuvox It was acquired by ebay in 2008.

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Collaboration

VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a collaborative cloud based service into which users upload over 55 types of documents and other users can comment in five different ways (using voice, text, audio, or video). VoiceThreads can be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites, and exported to play as archival movies. It can be used for asynchronous learning with students commenting and adding discussions to a started VoiceThread. The original creators in 2005 were Ben Papell and Steve Muth.

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Annotating

NoodleTools

MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work. NoodleTools MLA Lite is a free version with a Bibliography component and limited set of citation types appropriate for elementary or middle-school students.

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Gathering

myPeers

myPeers is a scholars social network that allows you follow your peers' research, get notified when their papers are published, and have access to their published work. It was only available for mac users

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