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This wiki is intended as a repository of tools that academic researchers use. Please include a brief description of how you've used (or would use) the tool you reference and the URL of the site.


 * Reference Manager**

Mendeley [@veletsianos] Citation management / Annotate PDF's. Nice. @http://www.mendeley.com/ haven't been able to get the Word plugin to work to cite while you write [@tomfullerton]

http://www.refworks.com/

EndNote [@DrGarcia] bibliography builder, "cite while you write," web interface, reference list sharing, online library searches from w/n the tool THE MOST INTELLIGENT $ I'VE EVER SPENT [] EndNote v.5 Not stable on Mountain Lion [@tomfullerton]

Enter ISBN, create a citation: @http://citationmachine.net/ @http://easybib.com/

Scrivener - research publication. Keep your writing organized: @http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

Zotero (free) @http://www.zotero.org/ New version has apparently worked out kinks. Standalone or browser-based. Works with google Docs.

Papers (Mac $) Organize your research. @http://mekentosj.com/papers/


 * Notes & organizers:**

DevonThink (Mac, $$) @http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/ DEVONthink is the one and only database for all your digital files, a practical, powerful document manager that uses built-in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help you collect and organize everything from emails to PDFs, whether they’re located on your Mac or on the web @http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html

SOHO Notes (Mac only, $) @http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohonotes.html A notebook for your life. SOHO Notes is the premier digital note-taking application for your Mac. Use it to capture, organize, sync, and share all of your stuff including text notes, PDF's, images, voice recordings, videos, forms, and web archives.

Evernote (Mac / Windows / Mobile, free) @https://www.evernote.com/ Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.

Sharing your research:
 * Delicious
 * Diigo
 * Yahoo Pipes:
 * @http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
 * Netvibes

NVivo [@DrGarcia] Analyze qualitative data, robust coding & schema building. []

Tinderbox (Mac only, $$$) Analyze qualitative data Jonathan Strang included a post about Tinderbox on his blog: @http://jrstrang.ca/?p=318 The embedded video by Tom Webster gives you a walk-through of the functionality of Tinderbox to make sense of qualitative data: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/index.html

SPSS (Mac & PC, ~$200) [|http://www.spss.com/] Statistical Package - not necessarily most powerful stats package, but what I use and has been pretty easy to learn

Dragon Naturally Speaking (PC) or MacSpeech Dictate (Mac) ($150 - $200) [|Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking Solutions] (both products from this company) Great for transcribing interviews or taking very quick verbal notes while watching video or during field observations.

Foxit Reader @http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ View, print and annotate any pdf

iPhone Apps: Evernote Quickoffice Egretlist Dragon Naturally Speaking ReaditLater Instapaper Stanza Kindle Twitter iAnnotate Papers (goes with Papers listed below) - they have an iPhone/iPad app.

Android Apps Augmented Reality: Layar&Wikitude Storage: Dropbox Diigo: PowerNote YouTube: TubeMate Productivity: ThinkFree Office Wiki: WikiDroid

Aggregators: - Netvibes - iGoogle - Pageflakes: @http://www.pageflakes.com/ - RSS Readers: - Google Reader - RSS Owl: @http://www.rssowl.org/

Productivity: - Evernote: @http://www.evernote.com/ Tutorial: @http://www.howcast.com/videos/168597-How-To-Capture-Every-Brilliant-Idea-With-Evernote - Readability: @http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ - Read it later: @http://readitlaterlist.com/ - PDF my URL: @http://pdfmyurl.com/ - Symbaloo: @http://www.symbaloo.com/ca/

Social Bookmarking: - delicious - diigo

Converters: - Media-Convert: @http://media-convert.com/ - Zamzar: @http://www.zamzar.com/ - Mark Up and Review Documents Online: http://crocodoc.com/ - Convert Audio Online: @http://media.io/ - Docs Pal document converter: @http://www.docspal.com/ - PDF to Word: @http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp @http://www.pdftoword.com/ @http://www.convertpdftoword.net/

Web Tools: - Download videos: @http://clipnabber.com/ @http://keepvid.com/ @http://deturl.com/[]

Social Networking: - Twitter: - Tweetdeck: @http://www.tweetdeck.com/ - Hootsuite: @http://hootsuite.com/ - Tom's twitter apps for educators: @http://sqworl.com/u5ar8k

Browsers: - Firefox: - a wealth of plugins available for this popular opensource browser (download flash files) - Flock: - built for the social media user

Voiceover IP (VOIP) / Video Chat: - Skype