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
  • 1.3 Book Search
  • 1.4 Search Engines
  • 1.5 Specialized Search Engines
  • 1.6 Tips for Searching
• 2. Collecting
  • 2.1 Free Collecting and Citation Software
  • 2.2 Licensed Collecting and Citation Software

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1. Searching

1.1 Academic Blogs

• Institute of Network Cultures (INC) - Blog from the Institute of Network Cultures based in Amsterdam
• New Media Literacies (NML) - Project how to become literate in the world of New Media
• The Politics of Systems - Blog on software, power and digital methods
• Software Studies Initiative - Blog on the broader vision of Software Studies
• CCastig - Blog on New Media projects and tutorials
• The Citizen Lab - A collective on research and development of ICT, human rights and global security

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

• GoogleGuide - Overview of advanced Google parameters (e.g. "", -, site:, etc.)
• How to Evaluate Web Sites - Strategies for source critique

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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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