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Research and study tools covers software that helps you gather sources, take notes, and organise a project. Listings include reference managers, citation helpers, collaborative whiteboards, encyclopedias, and search tools for papers and data. The formats they import and export matter, along with the citation styles they support and whether they keep your library in a format you can move later. A tool can speed up the work, but it does not judge whether a source is sound, so the reading is still yours. Some entries serve one discipline and others work across fields.
Alumnius.net is an educational research tool focused on alumni of American universities. Users can select a listed university to view associated alumni information. For each alumnus, the site provides details including photos, location, education, jobs, and skills. The platform hosts pages for a large number of U.S. higher education institutions.
Aqua Calc provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
BachelorStudies provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
BibGuru is a free citation generator that creates bibliographies and citations in APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, and over 8,000 other styles. It allows users to add sources, generate citations quickly, and offers a browser extension for Chrome and Edge. The service provides a paid plan, BibGuru Plus, at $4.99 per month with a three‑day free trial, which includes source saving across devices, project organization, and an ad‑free experience. No sign‑in is required for basic use.
Bohrium provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Brainly provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Britannica provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
CATMA (Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis) is a free, browser-based tool for annotating, analyzing, interpreting and visualizing text. It supports collaborative project work, custom tagset creation, and offers TEI-XML export, Git access, a GitMA Python package, and a JSON API for data access. Users can generate interactive visualizations including word clouds and distribution graphs.
Cheatography provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Citation Machine® is a free education and research tool that helps students and professionals properly credit the information they use. It generates citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard formats, with options to export bibliographies to Google Drive or Microsoft Word. The platform also offers supplementary tools including a plagiarism checker, grammar proofreader, paraphrasing tool, AI-powered writing assistant, and comprehensive citation and writing guides for various formatting styles.
CiteFast is a free online citation generator that automatically formats references, bibliographies, in-text citations, and title pages in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. It supports APA 6th and 7th editions, MLA 8th edition, and Chicago 16th edition. The tool provides features such as 24-hour citation saving, Word export for bibliographies, and in-text citation guides for all supported styles.
CiteMaker is an online citation machine and bibliography maker for student academic assignment referencing. It supports formatting citations in APA, Harvard, MLA, Oxford, Chicago, Turabian, and HavAus styles, with tools for automatic and manual citation creation. The service generates in-text citations, allows export of reference lists to email, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or PDF, offers Google Drive storage, includes an automatic WorldCat OCLC citation generator, and is accessible on PC, iPad iOS, and Android tablets. Registered users can save unlimited reference lists, and a free 30-day trial is available.
Citizendium provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Coursicle is an academic organization tool that allows users to track assignments, plan class schedules, and read professor reviews. It is used by over 2 million students and aims to support students at schools worldwide. Users may submit requests to add schools not currently listed on the platform.
Desmos Studio develops free digital math tools, including Graphing, Scientific, Geometry, and 3D Calculators, as well as Notebook. The tools are available for exploration, with examples provided for user inspiration.
Duplichecker is an online platform offering content utility tools including a plagiarism checker and AI-based paraphraser. Its plagiarism checker detects exact and paraphrased matching content across millions of sources, supports multiple file formats and languages, and returns similarity percentage results. Free access is available, with flexible paid subscription plans for additional features.
Encyclopedia.com is a free online encyclopedia and reference resource. It aggregates reference entries from more than 200 trusted published sources, including Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. The platform offers access to nearly 200,000 citeable reference entries and over 50,000 topic summaries accompanied by pictures, videos, and related newspaper and magazine articles. Users can search content via keyword or alphabet browse, and rate and sort reference entries. It is used by universities and institutions for research and provides homework help.
EncycloSearch is an ad-free, open-source encyclopedia search engine and reader supported by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. It enables users to search across more than two dozen encyclopedias simultaneously. The platform organizes content into categories including general, STEM, humanities, geography and politics, religion and mythology, and other subjects.
EntiTree is a visualization tool for research and study purposes. It displays connected Wikidata items on dynamic, navigable tree diagrams, with direct links to Wikipedia articles for people, organizations and events. Users can visualize Geni.com family trees, search for public and fictional individuals, and customize display themes. The tool supports multiple labels and languages, and provides a community chat via Telegram.
EtymOnline provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Eunoia is a research tool that indexes over 700 untranslatable words from more than 80 languages, organized by over 60 tags. Users can search for terms, view their definitions and associated language and tag information, or refresh to load a new batch of words.
Excalidraw provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
ExpertFile is a platform that helps organizations transform expert knowledge into visible authority across search, AI, and their websites. It offers a no-code solution to assemble expert hubs and structured expert profiles, connects experts with media, prospects and event organizers, manages media and event inquiries in a single system, and distributes expert content across search engines, AI indexes, and media databases to improve expert discoverability.
Explorer provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
