Citelighter is a handy Firefox toolbar that grabs information directly from the source and stores all the bibliographical information for you. You simply need to highlight the information you need and tell the toolbar to capture it. It will pull as much bibliographical information from the webpage as it can find, and you may only have to enter a couple of fields. Once you save it, it will be stored on your account and accessible from anywhere.

Once you finish gathering information, you can start writing your paper or working on your outline from the app. You can even share your findings with friends via Facebook.

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Features:

• Easily keep track of your research in one place.
• Automatically logs bibliographical information from sources.
• Syncs to your account so you can get access to your research from anywhere.
• Ability to share your findings with others via Facebook.
• Ability to write paper right from the app.
• Similar tools: Snippin, Sniply, GotProject, Memonic, WebNotes, RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and more.

Find Citelighter @ www.citelighter.com

If you have been using services like Delicious then you won’t need this tool. But if you are yet to start with online bookmarking then you might want to give this a shot and see if you prefer it over other similar services.

Features

• Online bookmarking tool.
• Save pages using the bookmarklet it provides.
• Drag and drop colorful categories/labels.
• Select text on page to create notes.

Check out Miitla @ www.miitla.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Snippin is a free to use web service that lets you snip webpages and save them to visit later. You start using the site by creating an account on it and the dragging its bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar. Next you click this bookmarklet whenever you find something interesting on a webpage. You highlight the area and a snip classification box will appear that helps you sort your snips.

When you visit your Snippin dashboard you will find the snips organized; you can use them to return to the original webpage and posts that you snipped.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you snip webpages.
• Saves your snips.
• Lets you organize snips into categories.
• Similar tools: Sniply, GotProject, Memonic, WebNotes, RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and more.

Check out Snippin @ www.snipp.in (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

RefDot easily grabs the information you need from Amazon’s listing for the item. When you are viewing a book on Amazon, the link to reference the item will automatically appear in the top right corner of the screen. If you click that, the handy extension will grab all the information about the book from Amazon’s database and store it for later access.

You can click the extension’s icon to view and edit your references and add new ones manually. You can click “View List” to access  your references and edit, and export them to .txt or .html. This extension is a must have for students who want to make referencing books easier.

Features:

• Grabs book information from Amazon and stores it for later access.
• Makes bibliographies easier.
• Edit information in your browser.
• Export to .txt or .html.
• Similar tools: EasyBib and BibMe.

Find RefDot @ the Chrome Web Store

What differentiates it from other such tools out there is a feature called smart tags. Examples: source:makeuseof.com, score:2.9, price:170 USD etc etc. This could prove to be pretty useful when it comes to filtering a huge collection of bookmarks.

Another aspect of this tool is that your bookmarks are private by default unlike most of the other such services where the default mode is public mode. So you might want to use this if you are tired of selecting the private mode frequently while saving items.

• Online bookmarking service.
• Offers smart tags for better sorting of bookmarks.
• Bookmarks private by default.

Check out Lstack @ www.lstack.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Shelfster looks like Evernote, but it’s more specifically geared towards keeping track of different types of information. It organizes everything into projects, so it’s easy to separate the information for each article and paper you are currently working on.

Shelfster has tools for web browsers and for computers (Mac and PC). They also have tools for iPhone and iPad. If you don’t want to install anything, you can just use it right from your web browser. Basically, no matter what kind of computer you have, there is a way to put Shelfster to work for you.

Features:

• Organizes all kinds of information for whatever project you are working on.
• Tools for browsers, iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC.
• Export to Word, Google Docs and popular eBook formats.
• Publish to WordPress, Facebook and Twitter.
• Similar tools: Memonic.

Find Shelfster @ www.shelfster.com

The Cambridge Digital Library has just started and does not have many papers in its collection for now, however, they do have papers about Newton and his many notebooks, which may help people, understand the fundamental principles behind his teachings, and what led him to make one of the greatest discoveries and theories of all time.

To read any article, just visit the website and click the “Browse” button, which allows people to navigate through the online library. Once you find the notes you want to read, just click on them to read it.

Features

• Notes and documents available online
• Original notes scanned and brought in digital form
• Great for people who hunger knowledge and want to learn something ‘new’

Check out Cambridge Digital Library @ www.cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

The service also provides detailed analytics for users to monitor the kind of impact their research is creating. You can search for people or universities and then look for corresponding research papers submitted on the site. The goal of the site in their own words is to “accelerate the world’s research.”

Features

• Share research papers.
• Find papers by people or universities.
• Detailed impact analytics available.
• Huge community of researchers already present.

Check out Academia.edu @ www.academia.edu (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Memonic is a website that lets you save links online. After creating an account on the site you can start using its bookmarklet. Whenever you visit a website, clicking on the bookmarklet will let you clip the site’s content or save it for later reading. You can also choose to bookmark the page or take notes. The ‘gathering mode’ is reserved for premium users only – the other features are available to all users.

If you choose the Clip Content option you can click on multiple links on the webpage and have the links saved to your Memonic account. When you visit your Memonic dashboard you will find these clipped links neatly organized under a single heading.

The note-taking option lets you quickly save notes in your Memonic account; the note-taking panel is displayed without changing the website. The panel lets you title your note and add special formatting to it.

Overall, Memonic will serve as an invaluable tool for online researchers. People who store notes online will also find Memonic to be very helpful.
The application offers free and premium accounts.  The developers of  Memonic have been kind enough to give 5 premium licenses to MakeUseOf readers. To take advantage of these licenses please leave comment on this post (using your email address).

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you store web links online.
• Lets you clip content from webpages.
• Lets you store notes online.
• Special formatting for notes is supported.

Check out Memonic @ www.memonic.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Bundlr is a free to use website that lets you create virtual bundles of webpages. You start by creating an account on the site by connecting through Facebook or Twitter. Next you create and name your bundle, then drag the site’s bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. This bookmarklet quickly adds webpages to your bundles.

You can add other Bundlr users as collaborators to add sites to your bundle. When you want to share your bundle, you can share its public URL or use its embeddable code on your blog or website.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Lets you create virtual bundles of webpages.
• Supports all types of webpages.
• Lets you add collaborators.
• Lets you share bundles through direct URL.
• Generates embeddable code for bundles.
• Similar tool: PearlTrees, BagTheWeb, DropVine, Shareaholic, Linkli.st, NiceSharing, ShareTabs and MinMu.
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Check out Bundlr @ www.gobundlr.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)