Digital Tools for Researchers

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.

Open access platforms

• eLife – Open access to the most promising advances in science.
• F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
• GigaScience – Online open-access open-data journal that publishes ‘big-data’ studies from the life and biomedical sciences.
• Limn – Free journal that outlines contemporary problems.
• PeerJ – Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.
• Cureus – A free and open access the medical journal and a place for physicians to build a digital CV.
• ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.
• The Winnower – Open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review.

Paper repositories

• ArXiv – E-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
• biorXiv – The preprint server for Biology.
• F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
• Figshare – Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable.
• Peer Evaluation – Open repository for data, papers, media coupled with an open review and discussion platform.
• Peerage of Science – Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.
• PeerJ PrePrints - Pre-print repository for the biological and medical Sciences.
• SlideShare – Community for sharing presentations and other professional content.
• Zenodo – A home for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to share and preserve any research outputs.

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.

Journal reviews and advisors

• 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.
• 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.
• Journalysis – A service for academic authors run by academic authors for reviewing experiences with academic journals.
• 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)