Open Access Initiatives
Academic Profile Management
| Site Name |
Description |
| IRINS |
Research Information Management |
| E-Vidwan |
premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members |
| Shodhganga |
Repository for Theses |
| ORCID |
ORCID ID is a unique, open digital identifier |
| Researcher ID |
Researcher ID is an identifying system for scientific authors |
| Research Gate |
Research Gate is an academic profile and social networking site |
| Scopus |
Track your publications indexed in the Scopus citation database and build metric reports. |
| Academia |
Academia.edu is a for-profit open repository of academic articles free to read by visitors. |
| Web of Science |
Acquire, analyze, and disseminate database |
Abstracting and Indexing Database
| Site Name |
Description |
| Scopus |
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database |
| Web of Science |
Acquire, analyze, and disseminate database |
Research Tools - Reference Management Tool
| Site Name |
Description |
| Zotero |
Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data |
| JabRef |
Free Reference Manager |
| EndNote |
EndNote is a reference management software developed to help researchers, academics, and students organize and manage bibliographic references, citations, and research materials. |
| Citavi |
Citavi is a reference management and knowledge organization software designed primarily for researchers, academics, and students. |
| CiteUlike |
CiteULike was a web-based reference management and social bookmarking service designed for researchers and academics allowing users to save, organize, and share bibliographic references and research articles online. |
| Bookends |
Bookends is a reference management software designed for researchers, academics, and writers to organize and manage bibliographic references, citations, and research materials. |
| Docear |
Docear is an open-source academic literature suite that combines reference management, mind mapping, and PDF management into a single software application. |
| Papers |
Papers is a reference management software designed to assist researchers, academics, and students in organizing and managing their academic papers, references, and research materials. |
Mind Mapping Tool
| Site Name |
Description |
| Xmind |
Xmind is a mind mapping and brainstorming software. |
| Mindmeister |
MindMeister is an online collaborative, knowledge-based mind mapping tool |
| Coggle |
Coggle is online software for creating and sharing mindmaps and flowcharts. |
| Freeplane |
Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information. |
| Gliffy |
Gliffy is one of the web based diagram software assist to create professional looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans and technical drawings. |
| Cmap |
Cmap is an easy way to encourage very high levels of cognitive performance. |
| Draw.io |
Draw.io (now known as diagrams.net) is a free online diagramming and flowcharting tool |
Grammar and Spelling Checking Tool
| Site Name |
Description |
| Grammarly |
Grammarly helps people communicate with confidence across devices and platforms. |
| Whitesmoke |
WhiteSmoke is an online writing assistant that corrects your grammar, punctuation, writing styles, and spelling. |
| Writer’s |
Writer's free grammar checker is a simple, AI-powered assistant that makes your text clear, error-free, and easy to understand. |
| Workbench |
Workbench is a grammar checker. |
Notes Taking Tool
| Site Name |
Description |
| Evernote |
Evernote - great note taking, project planning, and easy ways to find what you need, when you need it. |
| Onenote |
OneNote is designed for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. |
AI-based Content Writing Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Canva |
Magic Write is an AI text generator built directly into Canva, making it easier to generate long- or short-form written content for your social media posts, blog articles, and presentations |
| Copy AI |
Copy AI is a copywriting platform that helps people create content for their website, blog, and social media channels. |
| GrammerlyGO |
GrammarlyGO is an AI-powered tool designed to help users generate content attuned to their voice and intended audience. |
| INK |
INK is an AI-powered writing tool that helps writers generate content that ranks in search. |
| Notion AI |
It involves reading docs, writing content, or taking notes, Notion AI can make you more efficient. |
| Wordtune |
Wordtune is an AI-powered writing companion that understands what you're trying to say and suggests ways to make your writing more clear, compelling and authentic. |
| Jenni |
Jenni AI is a powerful writing tool that helps you create engaging and informative content for your audience. |
| QuillBot |
QuillBot is a paraphrasing and summarizing tool that helps millions of students and professionals cut their writing time by more than half using state-of-the-art AI to rewrite any sentence,paragraph, or article. |
| Paperpal |
Paperpal is a writing tool that uses machine learning technology to help you improve your academic writing. |
Research Assistant Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Elicit |
It is a free artificial intelligence (AI) research assistant that “uses language models to automate part of researchers' workflows |
| SciSpace |
SciSpace is an incredible (AI-powered) tool to help you understand research papers better. It can explain and elaborate most academic texts in simple words. |
| GNU PSPP |
A free and open alternative to IBM SPSS, PSPP is a software for statistical analysis of sampled data. |
Google Extension AI
| Site Name |
Description |
| Casper AI |
A tool for professionals to simplify their workflow by summarizing articles, creating content, and sharing insights with stakeholders. |
| Glasp |
Glasp is a free Chrome Extension that lets you quickly capture online content with colored highlighting options, which are then automatically curated to your Glasp homepage. |
Documentation Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| AudioPen |
AudioPen transforms messy voice notes into publish-ready text. Draft articles, memos, emails, and more. |
| Chat PDF |
ChatPDF is an AI-powered app that will make reading journal articles easier and faster. |
| Lateral |
Lateral is an AI-powered app for academics that will completely change the way you read and take notes. |
| Scholarcy |
Scholarcy, the online article summarizer tool, reads your research articles, reports, and book chapters in seconds and breaks them down into bite-sized sections |
Mind Mapping Tool
| Site Name |
Description |
| Miro |
Miro's mind map helps distributed teams to brainstorm, plan projects,etc., |
| ClickUp |
ClickUp’s Mind Maps is a visual collaboration tool that helps individuals and teams create free-form mind maps for any need. |
| VISME |
A mind map template is one of the best ways to organize information and structure it in a visually engaging way. |
| GitMind |
GitMind is a free AI-powered mind mapping &brainstorming app. |
| MindMup |
MindMup is a free mind-mapping tool that lets students create and share mind maps. |
| EdrawMind |
A collaborative mind mapping tool |
| The Brain |
The Brain is a software application designed for mind mapping and knowledge visualization. |
| WorkFlowy |
Work flowy is a web-based note-taking and organization tool |
| MindMapper |
MindMapper is a mind mapping software and mental organization tool |
Visualization Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Gephi |
Leading visualization and explanation. |
| Google Data Studio |
Quickly build interactive reports and dashboards. |
| Infogram |
Easy tool for creating infographics |
| VOSviewer |
Scientrometric analyzes tool |
| RStudio |
RStudio is an integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. |
Collaboration tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Etherpad |
Etherpad is a web-based collaborative text editing software that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit and collaborate on a document in real-time. |
| Dropbox |
Dropbox is a cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service that allows users to store, access, and share files and folders across different devices and platforms. |
Collaboration tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Focus writer |
FocusWriter is a distraction-free writing software designed to provide a focused and immersive writing environment. |
| Omm writer |
OmmWriter is a minimalistic and immersive writing software designed to provide a tranquil and distraction-free writing environment. |
| Zen writer |
ZenWriter is a writing software designed to provide a peaceful and distraction-free writing experience and aimed to create a serene and immersive environment for writers to focus on their creative process.. |
Bibliometric Analysis Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| Biblioshiny |
Biblioshiny allows users to perform relevant bibliometric and visual analyses on an interactive web interface, |
| BibExcel |
BibExcel is designed to assist a user in analysing bibliographic data, or any data |
Data Visualization Tools
| Site Name |
Description |
| VOS Viewer |
VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks |
| CiteSpace |
CiteSpace is a freely available Java application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature |
| Power BI |
Microsoft Power BI is a data visualization platform used primarily for business intelligence purposes. |
| Pajek |
Pajek is a free program designed for the analysis and visualization of large networks. |
| Gephi |
Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analysing large networks graphs. |
| iipmaps |
iipmaps is the easiest way to transform data into maps in minutes in a most user-friendly manner. |
