Tools & Websites for Philosophy Researchers Writing, Publishing and Sharing 1. Publishing & sharing Philpapers http://philpapers.org Share philosophical papers and follow other scholars. There is also discussion forums, an event service and job board. Academia.edu www.academia.edu Social networking site for academics. You can share research interests, papers, your CV, forthcoming talks and follow other scholars. There is a search engine, message service, job board, and possibility to follow journals. Twitter http://twitter.org Microblogging service. Find links to useful resources and news or share your thoughts and links to your publications. A list of philosophers on Twitter by Rani Lill Anjum is available at: https://twitter.com/ranilillanjum/philosophers-ontwitter Blogs Blogger www.blogger.com Wordpress http://wordpress.com Weebly www.weebly.com
3. File Sharing Dropbox www.dropbox.com Your files are accessible on any machine where you've installed Dropbox.. 2GB free storage. Spideroak www.spideroak.com Secure encrypted cloud storage and synchronisation. 2GB free storage
Keeping up to date What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format that is used to publish frequently updated web-based information. Click on the feed icon: ; or and it will display the contents of the feed and explain how to subscribe to it.
1. RSS Feed Readers Feedly Netvibes
www.feedly.com www.netvibes.com
2. Email alerts Automatically receive emails of the most recent table of contents (ToCs) of journals.
2. Document sharing Google Drive http://drive.google.com Collaborate with others on documents, spreadsheets, presentations. Scribd www.scribd.com Document sharing website. Recommends documents for you based on your preferences. Slideshare www.slideshare.net Upload and share presentations and documents.
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Zetoc Alerts http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk Journal Tocs www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk
Managing References & Articles Zotero www.zotero.org Free tool to collect, organise, cite, and share references. Plugin available for Word. Mendeley www.mendeley.com Free reference manager and academic social network. Organize & annotate PDFs, manage
your citations, & generate bibliographies. Plugin available for Word. RefME http://refme.com Free tool to create citations and bibliographies. Colwiz www.colwiz.com Free research management platform. It works with LaTex as well as OpenOffice and MS Word. Bookmarking websites
Edanz’s Journal Advisor www.edanzediting.com/journal_advisor A free online journal selection service. Altmetric www.altmetric.com Discover the impact of your research paper.
Presentation tools Prezi http://prezi.com Free presentation tool.
Delicious: www.delicious.com Diigo: www.diigo.com
Powtoon www.powtoon.com Create animated videos and presentations.
Writing tools
Teaching resources
Scrivener (ÂŁ) www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php A writing tool created specifically for long texts. Compatible with Endnote or Zotero. There is a charge for this, but you can try it on a free trial.
TeachPhilosophy101 www.teachphilosophy101.org Extensive site of open source teaching materials for philosophy, particularly at an introductory level.
YWriter www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html Free writing tool, similar to Scrivener. Designed for fiction writing, but useful for organizing long documents.
HumBox http://humbox.ac.uk Open teaching resources for the Humanities.
Overleaf www.overleaf.com Free collaborative writing and publishing tool. You can create, edit and share LaTeX or rich text documents. Notetaking & organising tools Evernote www.evernote.com Memonic www.memonic.com
Publishing tools Journal Guide www.journalguide.com Analyzes title and abstract to find the perfect journal for your paper. Compare journal cost, aims and scope, open access policies etc.
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MERLOT www.merlot.org Repository of free peer reviewed teaching and learning materials for all subjects.
Other tools Apollo (Cambridge University repository) www.repository.cam.ac.uk Upload your accepted article or book chapter to the University's repository to make it open access. ORCID http://orcid.org Sign up for a digital identifier to distinguish you and your work from other researchers.
See DiRT Directory http://dirtdirectory.org for an extensive list of other digital research tools.