Digital tools for researchers

Explore the literature

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.

Search engines and curators

• BibSonomy – Share bookmarks and lists of literature.
• CaptoMe – Metadata platform with rich biomedical content and information management tools for well-organized research.
• 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.
• ContentMine – Uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.
• DeepDyve – Instant access to the journals you need Search engines and curators.
• EvidenceFinder – Enriches your literature exploration by suggesting questions alongside your search results. (blog post)
• F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
• Google Scholar – Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature across disciplines and sources.
• LazyScholar – Chrome extension to help your literature search.
• Mendeley – A unique platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article visualization tools.
• Microsoft Academic Search – Find information about academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources.
• MyScienceWork – Diffuse scientific information and knowledge in a free and accessible way.
• Nowomics – Follow genes, proteins and processes to keep up with the latest papers and data relevant to your research.
• Paperity – Aggregator of open access papers and journals Search engines and curators.
• Paperscape – Visualise the arXiv, an open, online repository for scientific research papers.
• PubChase – Life sciences and medical literature recommendations engine. (blog post)
• Pubget – Search engine for life-science PDFs.
• PubPeer – Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
• ReadCube – Read, manage & discover new literature.
• Scicurve – Transforms systematic literature review into interactive and comprehensible environment.
• Sciencescape – Innovation in the exploration of papers and authors.
• Scientific Journal Finder - Search engine, which recommends a list of journals based on title and abstract of scientific manuscript.
• Scizzle – Curator that automagically finds new and relevant research papers. (blog post)
• Sparrho – Personalized recommendation engine for science – allowing you to keep a bird’s eye view on all things scientific.
• SSRN – Multi-disciplinary online repository of scholarly research and related materials in social sciences.
• Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.
• Zotero – Helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

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.
• Pubget – Search engine for life-science PDFs.
• 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.