## See Also - [[Best Practices for Research]] for tips, via `@smithtjosh` - [Scolary](https://scolary.com) is an index of research tools ## Connection Discovery Tools - https://www.researchrabbitapp.com/ - super nice people, very responsive and nice in the chat window, they will even do a zoom walk through, lots of neat features like being able to write notes to self about key references. - https://citationgecko.com/ - doesn't do a great job of saving stuff long term but has a nice simple interface that is sometimes nice. - https://www.connectedpapers.com/ - https://www.semanticscholar.org/ - seems more like a searchable database than what it claims to be but maybe I'm just using it wrong. - https://scite.ai/home - input an article, get back a chart of what cited it and whether it agreed, disagreed, or just mentioned it. - https://iris.ai - a nice visual connection tool. ## Searchable Databases - https://academia.edu - note, really spammy (no I did not publish anything as E. Konik let me turn this off please), but mostly free. [Probably not ethical, though](https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/01/23/dear-scholars-delete-your-account-at-academia-edu/?sh=62edcb502d62). - https://jstor.org - 100 articles free per month. Also has the [analyzer](https://www.jstor.org/analyze/) that analyzes the text within the document to find key topics and terms used, and then uses the ones it deems most important — the "prioritized terms" — to find similar content in JSTOR. - I'm using https://www.worldcat.org/ to keep track of books I'd like to request from the library via interlibrary loan, along with the [list on aacpl](https://catalog.aacpl.net/MyAccount/MyList/23776) of the books that are available without interlibrary loan. - https://hcommons.org/ is a bit more ... social, than I prefer, but might have some useful stuff. - https://booksc.org/s/ is definitely an illegal ebook and article database, but it also works and downloading academic pdfs is definitely a grey area ethically. - [Biodiversity Heritage Library](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/) is all about collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. - [Internet History Sourcebooks Project](https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/) — has some great primary source letters from the Leeds mill workers and mill owners that make for a useful exercise because students don't even need to read the contents of the letters to grasp useful information, e.g. that the conflict lasted for _years_ (based just on the dates of the letters). ## Reference Managers - [[Zotero tips]] ## Markdown Translators - Pandoc - CLI - [Writage](https://www.writage.com/) - (paid) Word Plugin that lets you translate between .md and .docx and open .md files in Word. * [longform guide on how to do Zotero well](https://ikashnitsky.github.io/2019/zotero/) ## Extensions - [Single File Website Annotator](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle) - Unpaywall Extension