Basic Digital Tools for Scholars

Cute Icons to add a little color What is it? What is it good for?

www.uvm.edu/~netid Your space on zoo. Use it to store important files (your papers or thesis) or create a web site. Yours at https://www.uvm.edu/files/

Zotero.org(or EndNote)

A bibliographic management program. Store references, drop them into papers easily and with proper formatting.

Google Docs andSpreadsheetsdocs.google.com

Documents or spreadsheets that are stored online. Access them from any networked computer. Save copies as doc, pdf, html, or xls files. Share and edit, live, with others in your group.

Google Scholarscholar.google.com

Search for articles, download the full-text version if available. Send the reference to bibliographic managers like Zotero or Endnote.

Google Alertswww.google.com/alerts

Tell Google what to search for and it will send the links to you as they appear. You can have the results sent to email daily.

Booksbooks.google.comwww.archive.org/texts

If they have full text version of the books you are looking for you can clip quotes from the text version. If not, you can at least see some of the information before ordering the book through ILL.

iGooglewww.google.com/ig

A customizable page that can contain your most used Google tools as well as bookmarks. Set it to be your home page.

Picnikwww.picnik.com

Image editor. It may not be PhotoShop but it does the basics like resizing, cropping, or adding text.

Google Readerreader.google.com

Brings your favourite blog updates to you. Subscribe to your blogs, then receive updates as they occur.

blog.uvm.edu A place to create your own blogs. If you want to have non-UVM blogs, Blogger.com is an easy way to create and host them.

sites.google.com orwikispaces.com

Wikis: create your own individual or group web sites. You can create private, group or public wikis. Everyone in the group can edit.

nGramngrams.googlelabs.com/

A Google labs experiment: Compare use of words or phrases from Google books over time.

GoogleMaps/MyMapsmaps.google.com

Create custom maps with marked routes. Then attach descriptions, images and video.

Google Earthearth.google.com

A standalone application. Create Google map files, annotate them, add images and video, animate them, save and share them, post them on your website, or find projects others have done and link to them.

Wordle.net Graphic depiction of word frequency.

Omeka.orgOmeka.netuvm.edu/ctl/apps/omeka/

A web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Learn about it at omeka.org, create your own at omeka.net, or see UVM’s first student project collections at uvm.edu/ctl/apps/omeka

Scanning With the right software you can scan images or documents, turn docs into PDFs, run them through OCR and turn them into editable docs..

Created 2011-04-01, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, Center for Teaching and Learning, UVM