33 Tools for Researchers

Information Searching
One of the search engines. You can simply Google
anything!
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search
for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search
across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses,
books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic
publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites.
Zetoc is one of the worlds most comprehensive research
databases, giving you access to over 29,000 journals and
more than 52 million article citations and conference
papers through the British Librarys electronic table of
contents.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an
online digital library of education research and
information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences of the United States Department of
Education.

www.google.com

https://scholar.google.com

http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk/

http://eric.ed.gov/

Storage
Google Drive is a file storage and
synchronization service created by Google. It https://www.google.com/drive/
allows users to store files in the cloud, share
files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations with collaborators.
FREE 15 GB
Dropbox is a personal cloud storage service
(sometimes referred to as an online backup
https://www.dropbox.com/
service) that is frequently used for file sharing
and collaboration.
FREE 2 GB / up to 16BG to refer friends
Box is an online file sharing and personal
cloud content management service for
www.box.com
businesses. The company adopted a
freemium business model, and provides up to
10 GB of free storage for personal accounts
Adrive is an online storage and backup
http://www.adrive.com/personal_basic
service that gives 50GB space for free. Its ad
supported and basic plan users get some
common features only.

Writing
The most common tool used for writing,
MS Word has some Advanced Features
that are useful for thesis Writing.

Free with Microsoft Office

Easy to write online, the documents are

stored in Google Drive making it easy to
access it virtually. Easy to collaborate
especially with your supervisors.

https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Scrivener is a powerful contentgeneration tool for writers that allow

you to concentrate on composing and
structuring long and difficult
documents.
It is an online platform, similar to blog
but with the focus on the habits of
writing 750 words a day. Try it!

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/trial.php

http://750words.com/

Referencing
EndNote is a commercial reference
management software package, used to
manage bibliographies and references when
writing essays and articles.
Not Free, but normally universities will have
licenses for students.
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for
managing and sharing research papers,
discovering research data and collaborating
online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF
and reference management application
(available for Windows, OS X and Linux) with
Mendeley Web, an online social network for
researchers. FREE
Zotero is the only research tool that
automatically senses content in your web
browser, allowing you to add it to your
personal library with a single click. FREE
Citavi helps you manage your sources and
search for new ones in your university's
library catalog, too. Avoid chaos and
plagiarism. Highlight important text passages
in PDFs and click to save them in Citavi, along
with their source information and page
numbers. FREE

http://endnote.com/

https://www.mendeley.com/features/

https://www.zotero.org/

https://www.citavi.com/

Refworks is a web-based bibliography and

database manager that allows you to create
your own personal database by importing
references from text files or online databases
and other various sources. You can use these
references in writing papers and automatically
format the paper and the bibliography in
seconds.
LaTeX is a document preparation system for
high-quality typesetting. It is most often used
for medium-to-large technical or scientific
documents but it can be used for almost any
form of publishing.

https://www.refworks.com/

http://latex-project.org/

Analysing Qualitative Data

ATLAS.ti is one of the most powerful tools
for qualitative data analysis. Managed
documents, multi-document view, highperformance multimedia engine, intuitive
margin-area coding for all data types, and
much more.
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA)
computer software package produced by
QSR International. It has been designed
for qualitative researchers working with
very rich text-based and/or multimedia
information, where deep levels of analysis
on small or large volumes of data are
required.
Dedoose is a SaaS application which
facilitates the coding and analysis of
qualitative data and their integration with
demographic and other quantitative data.
Normally used in a mixed method
research or study.
MAXQDA is a professional software for
qualitative and mixed methods data
analysis for Windows and Mac, which is
used by thousands of people world wide.

www.atlasti.com

www.nvivo.com

www.dedoose.com

http://www.maxqda.com/

Analysing Quantitative Data

SPSS

STATA

SAS

SPSS is a Windows based program that

can be used to perform data entry and
analysis and to create tables and
graphs. SPSS is capable of handling
large amounts of data and can perform
all of the analyses covered in the text
and much more.
Stata is a complete, integrated
statistical software package that
provides everything you need for data
analysis, data management, and
graphics.
SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a
software suite developed by SAS
Institute for advanced analytics,
multivariate analyses, business
intelligence, data management, and
predictive analytics.

http://www.spss.co.in/index.aspx

http://www.stata.com/

http://www.sas.com/en_my/home.html

Editing and Proofreading

Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating
student work. The company's cloud-based
service for originality checking, online
grading and peer review saves instructors
time and provides rich feedback to
students.
Grammarly is the world's leading
automated proofreader. It checks for
more than. 250 types of spelling,
grammar, and punctuation errors,
enhances vocabulary usage and suggests
citations.
PaperRater.com is a free resource that
utilizes Artificial Intelligence to help
students write better.
Slick Write is a powerful, free tool that
makes it easy to check your writing for
grammar errors, potential stylistic
mistakes, and other features of interest.

http://turnitin.com/

www.grammarly.com

https://www.paperrater.com/

https://www.slickwrite.com

Connecting with other researchers

Academia.edu is a social networking
website for academics.
It can be used to share papers,
monitor their impact, and follow the
research in a particular field.
ResearchGate is a social networking
site for scientists and researchers to
share papers, ask and answer
questions, and find collaborators.
ORCID provides a persistent digital
identifier that distinguishes you
from every other researcher
Mendeley has a large database of
researchers and their published
papers. Researchers can easily find
anyone to follow and collaborate on
any research.

www.dsgportal.org

https://www.academia.edu/

http://www.researchgate.net/

http://orcid.org/

https://www.mendeley.com/people