Academic Resources
Academic Resources
Research Tools
A free, open-source reference-management software that lets you collect, organise, annotate and cite research materials (PDFs, web pages, etc.). Works with Word, LibreOffice and Google Docs.
free tool for managing research papers, organising your library, annotating PDFs, and generating bibliographies. Especially helpful for student-researchers
An AI-powered summarising tool: it helps you read and analyse research papers more quickly by extracting key points, methodology and results. Good for busy researchers.
A visual research-exploration tool: it helps you map out the landscape of research (papers, authors, citations) so you can see how topics evolve and discover relevant works
A free/open-source qualitative-data tool: ideal for textual analysis (interviews, documents) — you can highlight, code and export data for social sciences/education research
A free academic-proofreading tool tailored for scientific texts: helps you check and improve language/style in research writing.
A free tool for exploring the relationships between research papers: you input a key paper and it shows related works graphically — very useful for literature reviews.