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  • Mendeley

  • Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library across desktop, web and mobile. Mendeley Web is a free research network which lets you manage research papers online, discover trends and connect to like-minded academics. Mendeley tracks usage data on over 40 million research papers in real-time, thus creating a network of people using and sharing millions of scholarly articles - helping to shift research into the 21st century world of collaboration and openness. Mendeley is engendering a revolution in the way research is conducted and disseminated, changing the face of science. »

    tags: academic bibliography-generator bibliography-management browser-integration citation-maker
  • Academia.edu

  • Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics .The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. It was launched in September 2008, with 31 million registered users as of January 2016 and over 8 million uploaded texts. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and othersAcademia.edu proclaims to support the open science or open access movements, and in particular instant distribution of research and a peer-review system that occurs alongside distribution, instead of occurring before it.[8] Accordingly, the company stated its opposition to the proposed (since withdrawn) 2011 Research Works Act, which would have prevented open-access mandatesHowever, Academia.edu is not an open access repository and is not recommended as a way to pursue green Open Access by Peter Suber and experts, who instead invite researchers to use field-specific repositories or general-purpose repositories like Zenodo »

    tags: academic-papers academic-research academics bibliographic bibliography
  • GoScholar for Google Scholar

  • Application for searching for and reading academic papers.

    tags: academia academic academic-papers academic-publishing academic-research
  • ACI Scholarly Blog Index

  • Winner of the SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution, ACI is revolutionizing the way people conduct research by enabling them to find the content they’ve been missing. As the world’s only scholarly blog discovery service, the ACI Scholarly Blog Index was designed with your research in mind.

    tags: educational reference research researchers research-tool
  • PubMed.gov

  • PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

    tags: academic literature-search academic-search journal-articles article-database