If you read a lot of static scientific documents in PDF format, Utopia Docs is the perfect PDF reader for you. It is a PDF reader that connects the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world of online content. It keeps information current and makes standard PDF documents come alive in a way that [...]
Google is the largest single mine of keyword data. They also give us tools that can help look up keyword data such as Google Trends, Adword Keyword Tool, and Google Insights. Google Correlate is another effective tool that creates a list of keywords based on the highest correlation of search volume. To make use of [...]
Research papers are a major pain. Writing them is no problem, but gathering all the information you need is an incredible headache. You need to go to the source and write down all the bibliographical information to make sure you properly cite any quotes or paraphrases. Sometimes I think I spend more time working on [...]
Miitla is an online bookmarking service that helps you bookmark webpages you want to save for referencing later. It makes things easy with the help of its bookmarklet. Hit the bookmarklet and it’ll pull up information from the page like its title and description automatically. You can drag and drop categories or labels onto your [...]
If you like something particular on a webpage, then bookmarking the entire page can be quite redundant. Imagine returning to the URL and being unable to find what you earlier found interesting. Here to help you snip away webpages to save what you find interesting is a web service called “Snippin.” Snippin is a free [...]
One of the worst parts about writing a paper for school is the bibliography. Getting all of the required information from a book can be a major pain, and it can add a substantial amount of time to your workload. Thankfully, the Chrome extension RefDot makes getting sources from a book as easy as possible, and will save valuable [...]
Lstack is a bookmarking tool that lets you bookmark webpages you find interesting while browsing the web. It offers a bookmarklet that should work on Firefox and Chrome, and you may also email it links from your computer or phone to save items to your list. What differentiates it from other such tools out there [...]
If you have ever had to write a report for school then you will know how hard it can be to keep track of all the information you obtain. There are articles, photos, sound bites and notes involved and it can be next to impossible to keep them in order. Shelfster is a free program [...]
For people who have a thirst and hunger for knowledge, the Cambridge Digital Library is a great place to hang out. As the name of the website suggests, Cambridge Digital Library is an online digital library that holds some of the best available papers – you cannot find anywhere else. The Cambridge Digital Library has [...]
Sites like Google and Wikipedia are great ways to find information on the web. However, if you are an academician and looking to find research papers on different subjects or maybe share your research paper with others in your field then there aren’t a huge number of services around. Academia.edu aims to bridge that gap. [...]
While researching the web for a project, you often end up bookmarking many URLs for later viewing. This results in a cluttered bookmarks folder, something you definitely do not want. Here to help you easily save links or only portions of a website is a web service called Memonic. Memonic is a website that lets [...]
Doing online research has made student life much easier compared to the days of pen and paper. Still, you won’t be effective in sourcing and sorting through data without the right tools. Scrible is a new service that lets users annotate websites, convert them into various formats, and save online or share to friends. The [...]
Wikipedia, the mother of all knowledge wikis, is unmatched in the breadth and depth of articles that it has published. However, if you want to have an awesome experience with knowledge-based wikis, then you should check out Qwiki. This a new website provides an interactive wiki experience with the help of a slick interface and [...]
Search engines normally focus on automatically providing you with the latest and most relevant results. However they do not let you filter the results. Blekko, however, is one search engine that gives you a lot more control over the search results you see. Blekko is essentially a search engine. By default the results it displays [...]
A lot of people love looking at online trends and statistics. Not only are they great resources for your research paper, but it also leaves a great feeling to have all this data right at your fingertips, considering where we were 15 years ago when people had to go to libraries to get their material. [...]
Although Chrome has a built-in feature that quickly lets you search for highlighted text, at times it does not get the whole job done. What if you do not want to search exactly the highlighted text but a variation of it? If so, then try out Highlight to Search. Highlight to Search is a wonderful [...]
Have you ever thought “why did I bookmark this website?” You might not be able to remember what it was about the site you found interesting enough to bookmark. A great and simple solution to this is presented by Wozaik. Wozaik is a free user-friendly web service that lets you bookmark specific portions of a [...]
If you’ve ever performed a Google search on a current topic and been frustrated by the months old results that Google returned, you’ll really like NowRelevant. Unlike Google or other conventional search engines that sort their results according to some variation of a page ranking algorithm, NowRelevant returns results from the last two weeks only for [...]
Gapminder is a free web service that provides various data and statistics related to different interesting topics and global issues. Created by Hans Rosling, Gapminder was built to present a picture of the world using a unique approach to reading data. This website also aims to promote global development with the purpose of accomplishing the [...]
A lot of a researcher’s time is spent browsing the web looking for material relevant to the topic at hand. Somebody who conducts research on a daily basis on variable topics will end up spending a lot of time online, visiting many sites, and saving their URLs. GotProject presents users with a free alternative to [...]