The original post was published by Thomas Crouzier on http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers. However, after several years, some of the service have become invalid, such as Citeulike; and some completely switched their product focus, for example, Colwiz became Wizdom.ai. Therefore, at Acacess, we spent some time cleaning and regrouping these services, hope you can easily find the one you are looking for. Also, we Acacess is on a mission to boost scholars' productivity and we will release our tool very soon, so please stay tuned.
The complete mindmap of this collection can be found here
Some fun facts: there were 260 unique services being listed on the original version, but 40 of them were shut down.
- ACS ChemWorx – Collaborative reference manager coupled with tools and services for authors.
- eLife Lens – Provides for researchers, reviewers, authors and readers a novel way of looking at online content.
- Interactive Science Publishing – Allows authors to publish large datasets with original source data that can be viewed interactively by readers.
- PaperHive – Simplifying research communication and introducing new ways of collaboration through in-document discussions.
- PubReader – Alternative web presentation that offers another, more reader-friendly way to read literature in PMC and Bookshelf.
- Utopia Docs – Pdf reader that connects the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world of online content.
- Wiley Anywhere Article – Enhanced HTML article from Whiley publisher.
- Wiley Smart Article – Enhanced article tools for chemistry content in Whiley journals.
Elsevier “Article of the Future” – Aims to revolutionize the format of the academic paper in regard to presentation, content and context.
- BibSonomy – Share bookmarks and lists of literature.
- Biohunter – Portal with literature search, data statistics, reading, sorting, storing, field expert identification and journal finder.
- Colwiz – Create citations and bibliography and set up your research groups on the cloud to share files and references. > www.wizdom.ai
- ContentMine – Uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.
- Data Elixir – A weekly collection of the best data science news, resources, and inspirations from around the web.
- DeepDyve –
Instant access to the journals you need.The Largest Online Rental Service for Scholarly Research - Delvehealth – A data collection of global clinical trials, clinical trial investigator profiles, publications and drug development pipelines.
- F1000Prime – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
- Google Scholar – Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature across disciplines and sources.
- Labii –
A suite of web apps for researchers, including an online app for finding, commenting, rating and managing research papers. (blog post)Blockchain technology to securely store research records and maintain a single version of the truth. - LazyScholar – Chrome and Firefox extension to help your literature search.
- LiteracyTool – Educational web-platform helping with the discovery, understanding, and exploration of your scientific topics of interest.
- Mendeley – A unique platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article visualization tools.
- Microsoft Academic Search – Find information about academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources.
- MyScienceWork – Diffuse scientific information and knowledge in a free and accessible way.
- Paperity – Aggregator of open access papers and journals
- Paperscape – Visualise the arXiv, an open, online repository for scientific research papers.
- PubChase – Life sciences and medical literature recommendations engine. (blog post)
- PubNiche – A scientific research news curator.
- PubPeer – Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
- ReadCube – Read, manage & discover new literature. (Acquired by Digital Science)
- Research Professional – Source of intelligence on funding opportunities and research policy.
- Scicurve – Transforms systematic literature review into interactive and comprehensible environment.
- Scientific Journal Finder (SJFinder) – A collection of tools including a journal search engine and rating which recommends a list of journals based on title and abstract of scientific manuscript, website builder.
- Scizzle – Curator that automagically finds new and relevant research papers. (blog post)
- Sparrho – Personalized recommendation engine for science – allowing you to keep a bird’s eye view on all things scientific.
- SSRN – Multi-disciplinary online repository of scholarly research and related materials in social sciences.
- Stork – Notifies users new publications and grants based on the users’ own keywords.
- Symplur – Connecting the dots in healthcare social media.
- Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.
- Zotero – Helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
CaptoMe – Metadata platform with rich biomedical content and information management tools for well-organized research.CiteUlike – Search, organize, and share scholarly papers.EvidenceFinder – Enriches your literature exploration by suggesting questions alongside your search results. (blog post)Nowomics – Follow genes, proteins and processes to keep up with the latest papers and data relevant to your research.Sciencescape – Innovation in the exploration of papers and authors.SciFeed – Uses various data sources and natural language processing to identify important new scientific advances.SciVal Funding – Comprehensive source of funding information.Moved to https://www.fundinginstitutional.com by Elsevier
- Academia – A place to share and follow research and researchers.
- Addgene – Connect with other researchers through this plasmid sharing platform.
- Benchling – Life science data management and collaboration platform.
- Biowebspin – Platform in life science worldwide to networks, work, look up information. (Renamed as Inospin)
- Cureus – A free and open access the medical journal and a place for physicians to build a digital CV.
- Direct2experts – A federated network of biomedical research expertise.
- Expertnet – Helps you locate experts in Florida universities.
- Innocentive – Helps clients to engage a world of creative and diverse on-demand talent to rapidly generate novel ideas and solve important problems.
- Journal of Brief Ideas – Provides a place for short ideas to be described – in 200 words or less -, archived, searchable and citable.
- Kaggle – Connect with organisation in need of data prediction algorithms through open competitions for the best code. (blog post)
- LabRoots – Social network for researchers.
- LabsExplorer – Search for R&D partners, increase your visibility and gain financing.
- LabWorm – Featuring the best scientific tools, updated weekly and upvoted by the community.
- LifeScience.net – Online platform for professional networking and sharing of knowledge in life sciences.
- Linkedin – Professional networking site for all.
- Loop – Open, cross-platform network for researchers and academics from the Frontiers journals.
- MalariaWorld – The world’s scientific and social network for malaria professionals.
- MyScienceWork – Diffuse scientific information and knowledge in a free and accessible way.
- nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.
- Profeza – Showcasing the unvalued work behind each article to provide new, more accurate way of evaluating researchers.
- Profology – A professional community created exclusively for higher education faculty, staff and administrators.
- Research Connection – A searchable platform for research jobs and information.
- ResearchGate – Social network for researchers.
- ScienceExchange – Marketplace for shared lab instrumentations. (blog post)
- SocialScienceSpace – Social network to bring for social scientists.
- Speakezee – Bringing speakers and audiences together.
Trellis– A digital platform that connects you to the rest of the scientific community, ran by AAAS.- We Share Science – A place to share, search, organize, and connect research videos across research disciplines.
AcademicJoy – Share research ideas and story in research and innovation.AssayDepot – Pharmaceutical marketplace for life science research services.BiomedUSA – Global open access hub for sharing and licensing of Biological Research Materials and related technologies.GlobalEventList – A comprehensive directory of scientific events worldwide.Piirus – Helps researchers meet potential collaborators, build networks and develop their core research.
- AcaWiki – Summarizing academia and quasi-academia, one document at a time.
- Animate Science – Helps scientists get their work noticed by their peers and the general public using visual media.
- PubDraw – Take science articles, make pictures.
- I Am Scientist – A science outreach education and engagement activity.
- Kudos – Helps researchers explain, enrich and share their publications for greater research impact.
- Science Simplified – A science communication portal aiming to aggregate all academic( public releases and serve as a direct communication channel with the general public.
- SciWorthy – A science news site for the everyday person to better understand science.
- Useful Science – Summaries of the latest science useful in life.
Science Simplified – A science communication portal aiming to aggregate all academic
- Folding@home – Distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
- Innocentive – Helps clients to engage a world of creative and diverse on-demand talent to rapidly generate novel ideas and solve important problems.
- Patient Innovation – Nonprofit, international, multilingual, free venue for patients and caregivers of any disease to share their innovations.
- Project Noah – Explore and document wildlife on this citizen scientists platform.
- SciStarter – Find, join, and contribute to science through recreational activities and citizen science research projects.
- SETI@home – Put your CPU to work to help detect intelligent life outside Earth.
- Zooniverse – Citizen science projects using the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers.
- Benefunder – Facilitates connections with top researchers who are working on breakthrough discoveries that are impacting our world.
- Consano – Research crowdfunding site to directly support innovative medical research that matters to you
- Experiment – Crowdfunding Platform for Scientific Research.
- My Projects – Donate to the research work that means the most to you.
- Thinkable – Platform to mobilize knowledge and fund breakthrough ideas.
SciFlies – Allows anyone, anywhere to directly support research they care about.Became a trading strategy blog
- Antibody Registry – Gives researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in in the course of their research.
- Asana – Keeps your team organized, connected, and focused on results.
- Biocompare – Find products, read reviews and hear about the latest technological developments.
- ELabInventory – Web-based laboratory inventory management system designed for life science research laboratories.
- ELabJournal – GLP-compliant Electronic Lab Notebook and lab management tool.
- LabCritics – Provides researchers with a trust-able source of lab equipment reviews and comparisons.
- LabGuru – Supports day to day activities of a research group, from vision to execution, from knowledge to logistics.
- Lab Suit – Inventory Management, orders Management, materials Trade-In, price Comparison.
- Life technologies Lab Management Tool – Management tool for lab equipment and services.
- LiveLabSpace – Collaborative research tool that lets you plan experiments, replicate outcomes and generate research papers.
- Ovation – Simplifies your scientific life from sample tracking for startup labs to data management.
- Quartzy – A free and easy way to manage your lab.
- Quip – Combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, checklist, and more to collaborate on any device.
- Riffyn – Cloud software for visual, collaborative, reproducible innovation.
- StrainControl – Lab management tools that allows you to organize strains, plasmids, oligos, antibodies, chemicals and inventorie.
- Synapse – Platform to support open, collaborative data analysis for clear, reproducible science
1degreebio – Reagent marketplace.Moved to https://www.labx.com/application/antibodies-and-reagents
- Docollab – Helps you manage your scientific research, collaborate with your colleagues and publish your findings.
- elabftw – Electromic lab notebook made by researchers, for researchers, with usability in mind.
- ELabJournal – GLP-compliant Electronic Lab Notebook and lab management tool.
- Evernote – A place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.
- Findings App – Lab notebook app that allows to organize your experiments, keep track of results, and manage your protocols.
- Hivebench – Hosted numeric laboratory notebook tool to manage protocols, experiments and share them with your team.
- LabArchives – Web-based product to enable researchers to store, organize, and publish their research data.
- Labfolder – Simple way to document your research and to organize your protocols and data. (blog post)
- LabGuru – Supports day to day activities of a research group, from vision to execution, from knowledge to logistics.
- Laboratory Logbook – Document projects running in a lab and manage experimentally obtained data and its metadata.
- sciNote – Open source lab notebook with workflows and modular functionalities. (blog post)
- Sumatra – Automated electronic lab notebook for computational projects.
- Emerald Cloud Lab – A web-based life sciences lab, developed by scientists for scientists.
- ScienceExchange – Marketplace for shared lab instrumentations. (blog post)
- TetraScience – Allows you to monitor & manage your experiments from anywhere.
- Transcriptic – A remote, on-demand robotic life science research lab with no hardware to buy or software to install.
- BioBright – Provide a better understanding of experimental conditions by connecting sensors to instruments. (blog post)
- Addgene – Plasmid sharing platform
- Antibody Registery – Gives researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in in the course of their research.
- antYbuddY – An independent antibody review platform and supporting peer-to-peer forum.
- Biospecimens – Platform for biospecimen-based research.
- Duke human heart – Repository for cardiovascular research scientists, including tissues samples and information.
- ELabInventory – Web-based laboratory inventory management system designed for life science research laboratories.
Nanosupply – Platform facilitating sourcing and sharing of advanced materials for research and education.Sample of Science – Peer-Sharing Platform for Scientific Samples. (blog post)
- Benchfly – Video protocols and video platform for scientists.
- Benchling – Life science data management and collaboration platform, where you can create, find, and discuss protocols.
- Bio-Protocol – Online peer-reviewed protocol journal.
- IPOL journal – Research journal of image processing and image analysis with algorithm descriptions and its source code.
- MyExperiment – Share workflows and in silico experiments.
- OpenWetWare – Share information, know-how, wisdom, and protocols among researchers working in biological fields.
- Pegasus – Platform that help workflow-based applications execute.
- Protocol Exchange – Open protocol repository driven my the Nature Publishing group.
- Protocols – Crowdsourced universal protocol repository. (blog post)
- Protocol online – A curator of protocols contributed by researchers arounds the world.
- Scientific Protocols – Share scientific protocols using the GitHub platform.
- CDE Tool – Deploy and run your Linux programs on other machines without any installation or configuration.
- GitLab – A git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking and wiki’s all in one platform.
- GitHub – Online software project hosting using the Git revision control system.
- iPython notebook – Interactive computational environment that allows code execution, text, mathematics, plots, and rich media.
- Kepler – Helps create, execute, and share models and analyses across scientific and engineering disciplines.
- Mercurial – Control management tool with distributed source, giving each developer a local copy of the development history.
- nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.
- ROpenSci – Packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment.
Dexy – Helps your code to speak for itself with beautiful syntax highlighting.Sweave – Allows to embed the R code for complete data analyses in latex documentsSystem in Cloud – Platform, enabling clients to rapidly draw and execute data-flow diagram that run in cloud.
- Benchling – Life science data management and collaboration platform.
- BioLINCC – Clinical specimen database.
- Castor EDC – User friendly and affordable online data collection for medical research.
- Code Ocean – Cloud-based computational platform which provides a way to share, discover and run published code.
- ContentMine – Uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.
- DataBank – Analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
- DataCite – Establish easier access to research data by providing persistent identifiers for data.
- DataHub – Publish or register datasets, create and manage groups and communities
- Datazar – Research collaboration platform where you can easily explore, use and share data.
- Dat data – Open source, decentralized data tool for distributing datasets small and large.
- Delvehealth – Web and mobile app to collect patient reported outcomes & daily diaries increase data quality & engsgement
- Dryad– Data repository for any files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine.
- Figshare – Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable
- Galaxy Project – Web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research.
- GenePattern – Genomic analysis platform that provides access to hundreds of genomics tools.
- GenBank – Gene sequence database provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
- How Can I Share It – Find information and tools to ensure your articles can be shared with your colleagues quickly and easily.
- Kaggle – Platform for data prediction competitions.
- Kitware – Advanced software solutions and services for data intensive R&D
- mloss – Machine learning open source software.
- MyExperiment – Share workflows and in silico experiments
- nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.
- OMICtools – A manually curated metadatabase of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
- Ovation – Simplifies your scientific life from sample tracking for startup labs to data management.
- PCR Drive – Free platform that supports researchers in all their PCR-related processes.
- Pegasus – Platform that help workflow-based applications execute.
- Plotly – Online tool to graph and share data.
- re3data – Global registry of research data repositories.
- Riffyn – Cloud software for visual, collaborative, reproducible innovation.
- ROpenSci – Packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment.
- SlideShare – Community for sharing presentations and other professional content
- Statcrunch – Provides data analysis via the Web.
- Sumatra – Automated electronic lab notebook for computational projects
- SURF In context – Navigate through RDF relations in a smooth and understandable way.
- Synapse – Platform to support open, collaborative data analysis for clear, reproducible science.
- Tableau – Easily and quickly analyze and present data and share insights.
- Taverna – A suite of tools used to design and execute scientific workflows.
- TwistBioscience -Silicon-based DNA writing platform that provides access to high quality oligonucleotides, genes and libraries.
- VisTrails – Scientific workflow and provenance management system that supports data exploration and visualization.
- Wings – Semantic workflow system that assists scientists with the design of computational experiments.
- Wolfram Alpha – Web-based tools for scientific calculations.
- World Map – Allows users to explore, visualize, edit, collaborate with, and publish geospatial information.
- Zenodo – A home for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to share and preserve any research outputs.
Dataverse Network – Harvard-based tool to share, cite, reuse and archive research data.Deveo – Free, private Git, Mercurial, and SVN repository management platform.Moved https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-teamhubInSIlico DB – Genomics made possible for biologists without programming.Nowomics – Follow genes, proteins and processes to keep up with the latest papers and data relevant to your research.Research Compendia – Tools for researchers to connect their data, code and computational methods to their published researchSocialsci – Help researchers collect data for their surveys and experiments (blog post).Sweave – Allows to embed the R code for complete data analyses in latex documents.System in Cloud – Platform, enabling clients to rapidly draw and execute data-flow diagram that run in cloud.Wakari – Web-based python data analysis.WebPlotDigitizer – Web based tool to extract data from plots, images, and maps. (blog post)
- Grant Forward – Search engine for research grants.
- Instrumentl – Grant database and search tool that learns about specific research projects and then matches them with the best grants available.
Pivot COS – A database which includes funding opportunities from all disciplines.Publiconn – Social network for organisations which are users of public or private donor funding and those organisations that provide funding.
- CitationStyles – Find and edit CSL citation styles.
- Citavi – Reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning solution.
- EndNote – Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references
- F1000 workspace – A workspace for scientists to collect, write and discuss scientific literature.
- Mendeley – A unique platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article visualization tools.
- Paperpile – No-fuss reference management for the web (Google docs plugin). (blog post)
- Papers – Helps you collect and curate the research material that you’re passionate about.
- Zotero – Helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources
- ASCII doctor – Text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more.
- Atlas – Write, collaborate, design and publish on a single platform.
- Authorcafe – Authoring and Publishing Services platform for scholarly writing.
- Authorea – Platform to write scientific, academic, and technical documents in collaboration. (blog post)
- Draft – Version control and collaboration to improve your writing.
- F1000 workspace – A workspace for scientists to collect, write and discuss scientific literature.
- Fidus Writer – Online collaborative editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas.
- Overleaf – Online collaborative LaTeX editor, with direct submission to several publishers (ex WriteLaTex)
- Penflip – Collaborative writing and version control. (blog post)
- Pensoft Writing Tool – Collaborative authoring, reviewing and publishing in one place.
- ShareLaTex – Collaborative on-line editor for for Maths or Sciences.
- Stackedit – Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow.
- Typewrite – A simple, real-time collaborative writing environment.
- Quip – Combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, checklist, and more to collaborate on any device.
- Ludwig – Helps you improve your English writing by comparing your words with those found on trusted sources such as the New York Time or the BBC.
- Ref-n-Write – Microsoft Word Add-in that helps you improve your English writing skills.
- Writefull – Provides feedback on your writing using data from the Google Books database. (blog post)
- Write – Distraction-free text editor for writing productivity.
Poetica – Get clear feedback, wherever you’re writing.
- Ludwig – Helps you improve your English writing by comparing your words with those found on trusted sources such as the New York Time or the BBC.
- Ref-n-Write – Microsoft Word Add-in that helps you improve your English writing skills.
- Writefull – Provides feedback on your writing using data from the Google Books database. (blog post)
- eLife – Open access to the most promising advances in science.
- F1000Research – Open science publishing, using immediate publication followed by transparent peer review.
- GigaScience – Online open-access open-data journal that publishes ‘big-data’ studies from the life and biomedical sciences.
- Limn – Free journal that outlines contemporary problems.
- PeerJ – Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.
- Cureus – A free and open access the medical journal and a place for physicians to build a digital CV.
- ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.
- The Winnower – Open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review.
- ArXiv – E-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- biorXiv – The preprint server for Biology.
- F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
- Figshare – Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable.
- Peerage of Science – Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.
- PeerJ PrePrints – Pre-print repository for the biological and medical Sciences.
- SlideShare – Community for sharing presentations and other professional content.
- Zenodo – A home for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to share and preserve any research outputs.
Peer Evaluation – Open repository for data, papers, media coupled with an open review and discussion platform.
- Exec&Share – Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications.
- Google Charts – Create live and interactive charts in your browser.
- ORCID – Provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Collage Authoring Environment – Framework for collaborative preparation and publication of so-called executable paper.RunMyCode – Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications. (blog post)
- Cofactor Science Journal Selector – A journal selector from the editing service Cofactor.
- Edanz’s journal advisor – Personal guide that recommends the tools and services you need to get published.
- Editorlookup – Search tool to help find scientific professionals for academic tasks, such as editors and reviewers for scientific manuscripts.
- Journal Finder – Elsevier’s service that help you find journals that could be best suited for publishing your scientific article.
- Journal Guide – Find the best journal for your research. (blog post)
- Journal Reviewer – Aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals’ review processes.
- RoMEO – Find out publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
- SciRev – Share your experience with the scientific review process and learn from others to decide where to submit your manuscripts. (blog post)
- F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
- Hypothes.is – Sentence-level peer-review to provide commentary, references, and insight on top of online content.
- Labii –
A suite of web apps for researchers, including an online app for finding, commenting, rating research papers. (blog post)> Labii is an ELN & LIMS that grows with your company. Decide how you want data to be stored and have complete control. - Libre – Participative reviewing platform (beta testing). > https://www.liberatingresearch.com Empowering patients and fundraising through research
- Peerage of Science – Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.
- PeerJ – Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.
- PubPeer – Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
- Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activity.
- Rubriq – Provides an independent peer review prior to submission. (blog post)
- ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.
- Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.
- The Winnower – Open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review.
Academic Karma – Review of preprint publication, open and linked to original preprint.> https://reimaginereview.asapbio.orgJournal Review – Rate, and review published medical journal articles.Paper Critic – Review platform for research publications (Mendeley plugin).Peer Evaluation – Open repository for data, papers, media coupled with an open review and discussion platform.Pubmed Commons – Share opinions and information about scientific publications in PubMed. (blog post)
- Altmetric – Tracks what people are saying about papers online on behalf of publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.
- ImpactStory – Share the full story of your research impact. (blog post)
PLOS Article-Level Metrics – A suite of established metrics that measure the overall performance and reach of research articles.- PlumAnalytics – A research altmetric service tracking more than 20 different types of artifacts.
- Profeza – Showcasing the unvalued work behind each article to provide new, more accurate way of evaluating researchers.
- Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activity.