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Searching and Collecting

This wiki page provides you with links to tools, search engines and strategies for the collection of academic material and research.


1. Searching

1.1 Academic Blogs
1.2 Academic Search
  • Google Scholar - Find scholarly articles and see who cites them
  • Microsoft Academic Search - Academic search with great visualization features (Silverlight needed)
  • RefSeek - Web search engine specialized in academic information
  • Web of Knowledge - Citation based search from Thomson Reuters - Works from a university IP only
  • DuckDuckGo - Google alternative without tracking
  • Exalead Search - Google alternative, good for Wikipedia search
  • Blekko - A search engine focusing on spam-free results
  • Yippy - Metasearch based on clustering techniques
  • Touchgraph SEO - Explore Google's "related sites" feature visually

1.3 Book Search

  • Amazon Kindle - Explore popular underlines
  • Google Books - Interesting text-mining features and a means to search books you only have in print

1.4 Search Engines
  • Bing.com - Search engine from Microsoft
  • Blippex - Google alternative, ranks its results based on ‘dwellrank’: the amount of time spent on a page
  • Blekko - A search engine focusing on spam-free results
  • DuckDuckGo - Google alternative without tracking
  • Exalead Search - Google alternative, good for Wikipedia search
  • ScialMentioon - Realtime social media search
  • Touchgraph SEO - Explore Google's "related sites" feature visually
  • Yippie - Metasearch based on clustering techniques

1.5 Specialized Search Engines
  • Gibiru - Anonymized search
  • Google reversed image search - Get query of image
  • Google Table - Automatically creates table of query results
  • Pipl - People search
  • TinEye - Reverse image search
  • Topsy - Search engine for Twitter and Google+
  • Voxalead - Search news videos with the help of speech-to-text features
  • Yahoo - Search engine including news(newsitems, weather forecast, IPO,horoscopes)
1.6 Tips for Searching

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2. Collecting

2.1. Free Collecting and Citation Software
  • Bibme - Graphical bibliography manager for Mac
  • Citeline - Interactive reference collector (beta-version)
  • Mandeley - Sort articles and remember citations
  • Zotero - Academic collection tool
  • Qiqqa - Free award-winning reference system
2.2 Licensed Collecting and Citation Software
  • Bookends - Reference libarary tool
  • Noodlestools - MLA, APA, Turbanian and Chicago cite collector which offers personal help and analysis
  • Papersapp - Collecting tool with low treshold to share and cite
  • Refworks - Research and managament tool which allows collaboration

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Topic revision: r17 - 21 Sep 2014, YvetteDucaneaux
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