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Here is a collection of digital tools that are designed to help researchers explore the millions of
research articles available to this date. Search engines and curators help you to quickly find
the articles you are interested in and stay up to date with the literature. Article visualization
tools enhance your reading experience, for instance, by helping you navigate from a paper to
another.
Article visualization
ACS ChemWorx – Collaborative reference manager coupled with tools and services for
authors.
Colwiz – Create citations and bibliography and set up your research groups on the cloud
to share files and references.
eLife Lens – Provides for researchers, reviewers, authors and readers a novel way of
looking at online content.
Elsevier “Article of the Future” – Aims to revolutionize the format of the academic paper
in regard to presentation, content and context.
Interactive Science Publishing – Allows authors to publish large datasets with original
source data that can be viewed interactively by readers.
Mendeley – A platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article
visualization tools.
PaperHive – Simplifying research communication and introducing new ways of
collaboration through in-document discussions.
PubReader – Alternative web presentation that offers another, more reader-friendly way
to read literature in PMC and Bookshelf.
ReadCube – Read, manage & discover new literature.
Utopia Docs – Pdf reader that connects the static content of scientific articles to the
dynamic world of online content.
Wiley Anywhere Article – Enhanced HTML article from Whiley publisher.
Wiley Smart Article – Enhanced article tools for chemistry content in Whiley journals.
Outreach
Citizen science
Crowdfunding
Docollab – Helps you manage your scientific research, collaborate with your colleagues
and publish your findings.
elabftw – Electromic lab notebook made by researchers, for researchers, with usability
in mind.
ELabJournal – GLP-compliant Electronic Lab Notebook and lab management tool.
Evernote – A place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your
important projects forward.
Findings App – Lab notebook app that allows to organize your experiments, keep track
of results, and manage your protocols.
Hivebench – Hosted numeric laboratory notebook tool to manage protocols,
experiments and share them with your team.
LabArchives – Web-based product to enable researchers to store, organize, and publish
their research data.
Labfolder – Simple way to document your research and to organize your protocols and
data. (blog post)
LabGuru – Supports day to day activities of a research group, from vision to execution,
from knowledge to logistics.
Laboratory Logbook – Document projects running in a lab and manage experimentally
obtained data and its metadata.
sciNote – Open source lab notebook with workflows and modular functionalities. (blog
post)
Sumatra – Automated electronic lab notebook for computational projects.
Outsourcing experiments
Emerald Cloud Lab – A web-based life sciences lab, developed by scientists for
scientists.
ScienceExchange – Marketplace for shared lab instrumentations. (blog post)
TetraScience – Allows you to monitor & manage your experiments from anywhere.
Transcriptic – A remote, on-demand robotic life science research lab with no hardware
to buy or software to install.
Connected instrumentation
BioBright – Provide a better understanding of experimental conditions by connecting
sensors to instruments. (blog post)
Protocol repository
CDE Tool – Deploy and run your Linux programs on other machines without any
installation or configuration.
Dexy – Helps your code to speak for itself with beautiful syntax highlighting.
GitLab – A git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking and wiki‟s all in one
platform.
iPython notebook – Interactive computational environment that allows code execution,
text, mathematics, plots, and rich media.
Kepler – Helps create, execute, and share models and analyses across scientific and
engineering disciplines.
Mercurial – Control management tool with distributed source, giving each developer a
local copy of the development history.
nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education,
and collaboration.
ROpenSci – Packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical
programming environment.
Sweave – Allows to embed the R code for complete data analyses in latex documents
System in Cloud – Platform, enabling clients to rapidly draw and execute data-flow
diagram that run in cloud.
Fundraising/Grantwriting
5. Write
Writing tools are adapting to the needs of researchers. Tools to store and manage references
are grouped under Reference managers. And with research being more and more dependent
on collaborations across labs and continents, collaborative writing tools, help researchers
write their manuscript while keeping close track of the modifications done by others to the text.
Reference managers
ACS ChemWorx – Collaborative reference manager coupled with tools and services for
authors.
CitationStyles – Find and edit CSL citation styles.
Citavi – Reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning solution.
CiteUlike – Search, organize, and share scholarly papers.
Colwiz – Create citations and bibliography and set up your research groups on the cloud
to share files and references.
EndNote – Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and
references
F1000 workspace – A workspace for scientists to collect, write and discuss scientific
literature.
Mendeley – A unique platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article
visualization tools.
Paperpile – No-fuss reference management for the web (Google docs plugin). (blog
post)
Papers – Helps you collect and curate the research material that you‟re passionate
about.
Zotero – Helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources
ASCII doctor – Text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5,
DocBook & more.
Atlas – Write, collaborate, design and publish on a single platform.
Authorcafe – Authoring and Publishing Services platform for scholarly writing.
Authorea – Platform to write scientific, academic, and technical documents in
collaboration. (blog post)
Draft – Version control and collaboration to improve your writing.
F1000 workspace – A workspace for scientists to collect, write and discuss scientific
literature.
Fidus Writer – Online collaborative editor especially made for academics who need to
use citations and/or formulas.
Overleaf – Online collaborative LaTeX editor, with direct submission to several
publishers (ex WriteLaTex)
Penflip – Collaborative writing and version control. (blog post)
Pensoft Writing Tool – Collaborative authoring, reviewing and publishing in one place.
Poetica – Get clear feedback, wherever you‟re writing.
ShareLaTex – Collaborative on-line editor for for Maths or Sciences.
Stackedit – Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack
Overflow.
Typewrite – A simple, real-time collaborative writing environment.
Quip – Combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, checklist, and more to collaborate on
any device.
Write – Distraction-free text editor for writing productivity.
Ludwig – Helps you improve your English writing by comparing your words with those
found on trusted sources such as the New York Time or the BBC.
Ref-n-Write – Microsoft Word Add-in that helps you improve your English writing skills.
Writefull – Provides feedback on your writing using data from the Google Books
database. (blog post)
6. Publish
Open Access platforms offer an alternative publishing model, allowing anyone to visualize
published work for free. Researchers can also maximize the exposure of their work by placing
their manuscripts in Paper repositories. In addition to becoming more open, articles are
bound to become more interactive. A set of tools allowing you to bring additional functionalities
such as executable code to your articles are grouped under Support to publication. You can
also find tools to help your choose from the thousands of journals in activity under Journal
reviews and advisors.
Paper repositories
Support to publication
Collage Authoring Environment – Framework for collaborative preparation and
publication of so-called executable paper.
Exec&Share – Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications.
Google Charts – Create live and interactive charts in your browser.
RunMyCode – Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications.
(blog post)
ORCID – Provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other
researcher.
Cofactor Science Journal Selector – A journal selector from the editing service Cofactor.
Edanz‟s journal advisor – Personal guide that recommends the tools and services you
need to get published.
Editorlookup – Search tool to help find scientific professionals for academic tasks, such
as editors and reviewers for scientific manuscripts.
Journal Finder – Elsevier‟s service that help you find journals that could be best suited
for publishing your scientific article.
Journal Guide – Find the best journal for your research. (blog post)
Journal Reviewer – Aggregates information users provide about their experience with
academic journals‟ review processes.
RoMEO – Find out publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
SciRev – Share your experience with the scientific review process and learn from others
to decide where to submit your manuscripts. (blog post)
7. Evaluate Research
New tools are changing the way research in evaluated, both in terms of the scientific value of
articles and the overall achievements of researchers. Find under Peer-review, a collection of
tools that are changing the peer-review system into a more open and productive process by
bypassing journals and editors. Altmetrics are a set of new tools that analyze the impact of
you work by other means than impact factor and citations counts.
Peer-review
Academic Karma – Review of preprint publication, open and linked to original preprint.
F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish
research.
Hypothes.is – Sentence-level peer-review to provide commentary, references, and
insight on top of online content.
Journal Review – Rate, and review published medical journal articles.
Labii – A suite of web apps for researchers, including an online app for finding,
commenting, rating research papers. (blog post)
Libre – Participative reviewing platform (beta testing).
Paper Critic – Review platform for research publications (Mendeley plugin).
Peerage of Science – Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.
PeerJ – Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.
PubPeer – Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation
anonymously.
Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activity.
Pubmed Commons – Share opinions and information about scientific publications in
PubMed. (blog post)
Rubriq – Provides an independent peer review prior to submission. (blog post)
ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific
information.
Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical
research.
The Winnower – Open access online science publishing platform that employs open
post-publication peer review.
Altmetrics
Altmetric – Tracks what people are saying about papers online on behalf of publishers,
authors, libraries and institutions.
ImpactStory – Share the full story of your research impact. (blog post)
PLOS Article-Level Metrics – A suite of established metrics that measure the overall
performance and reach of research articles.
PlumAnalytics – A research altmetric service tracking more than 20 different types of
artifacts.
Profeza – Showcasing the unvalued work behind each article to provide new, more
accurate way of evaluating researchers.
Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activities