Graduate Students: Getting Connected with the Library: Research Resources and Tools

• Metrics Toolkit  
  “The Metrics Toolkit provides evidence-based information about research metrics across disciplines”
• Google Scholar Metrics
• Altmetric
  "Qualitative data including citation mentioned in popular resources and social media."
• Mendeley
• Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
  “a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.”

• Journal rankings and measures
  A library guide with a comprehensive coverage of journal assessment and metrics calculations
• SCImago Journal Rank
  "a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.)"
• Identify fake journals
• Identify dubious conferences
• Journal Finder
  "Looking for the best journal match for your paper? Search the world's leading source of academic journals using your abstract or your keywords and other details."

• Mendeley
  A free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data. Getting
  started with Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/guides/mendeley-reference-manager/
• Zotero
  "Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research."
• ReciteWorks
  "“Very simply, Recite checks that your in text citations match the reference list at the end of your work.”"

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
  "DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world."
• Open Access Scholarly Publisher Association (OASPA)
  "OASPA is a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship."
• PLoS One
  An assembly of peer-reviewed, open access journal with immediate access to articles
• CUNY AcademicWorks
  A collection of research, scholarship, creative, and pedagogical work done by CUNY faculty.
   

Literature Review

• Writing a literature review

• Writing a systematic review

• Journal/Author Name Estimator
  "Match your paper to suitable journals, or find relevant articles to your research topic, and more.

• Use Wikipedia as a springboard for research

Research Ethics

• Preparing an IRB Application at York
• Human Subjects in Research.
• IRB Manager.
• Research Integrity & Compliance.
• Academic Integrity Policy.
• Dupli Checker
• Plagiarism Detector

Technological Tools

• Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes
• A quick guide to LaTeX

• Connected Papers
  "Get a visual overview of a new academic field. Explore and build more graphs for interesting papers that you find - soon you'll have a real, visual understanding of the trends, popular works and dynamics of the field you're interested in."
• Elicit
  "Analyze research papers at superhuman speed. Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings."
• Open Knowledge Maps
  "Make a research topic with AI. Get an overview. Find documents. Identify concepts.
• LitMaps
  "Discover the world of Scientific Literature"
• Inciteful
  "Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature"
• Research Rabbit

“Makes it easier for people to explore and manage data, and faster to discover and share insights.”

• Tableau: Data Visualization
• Tableau free training
• Tableau gallery
• Tableau webinars

Visualize ideas, workflows, and relationships.

• Mindmup
• MindMeister