Today I will share some free scientific research tools to help you understand foreign journals, track literature, handle translations, lift restrictions... and even easily create PPTs. Good equipment improves scientific research efficiency.
1. Browser plug-ins
1.1 easyScholar, a browser extension that helps scientific research
A browser extension that helps scientific research - easyScholar | Display journal level\SCI partition
Official website address:https://www.easyscholar .cc/
The main function:
- Display journal grades: Display various journal grades on mainstream paper search websites.
- Online translation: On all websites, after selecting a piece of text, press T to translate and Y to hide (you can change multiple translation engines).
- Document management: Provides lightweight document management functions to quickly add categories to documents.
- Get the full English text with one click: Click the logo on the page to jump to the full PDF text. (You can turn it off or set other URLs yourself)
After installation, when we open CNKI, it will look like this. The article and journal level can be clearly marked. Isn’t it intuitive and convenient?
1.2 WeTab new tab page
WeTab is a browser that provides built-in rich widgets and a new form of homepage, supporting Chrome, Safari, Edge and other browsers. You can have notes, to-dos, weather, anniversaries, countdowns, etc. on your homepage. Now, you can finally have cool widgets on your homepage.
A rich set of widgets that you can customize according to your needs, and it also supports free ChatGPT. The free page does not affect the use at all.
1.3 Secret Tower Writing Cat
Writing Cat is a new generation of interactive Chinese and English writing assistance platform that integrates intelligent text error correction, rewriting and polishing, automatic continuation, and intelligent illustration.
Official website address:https://xiezuocat.com/
Create a new document, you only need to write a title Let him automatically write an outline and content, and he will automatically generate a lot of content based on the location of your cursor and the context. Final papers are no longer a problem~
It also supports a very rich set of plug-ins. Including document word plug-ins and mainstream browser plug-ins, etc. After installing the word plug-in, you can intelligently correct text errors in word articles, and you will no longer be afraid of typos~
2. Efficiency Tools
2.1 uTools, a new generation of efficiency tool platform
uTools is a minimalist, plug-in, cross-platform modern desktop software. Create your own handy collection of tools by freely selecting from a wide range of plug-ins. When you become familiar with it, it can save you a lot of time, allowing you to focus more on changing the world.
utools supports Windows/Mac/Linux, download link:https://u.tools/
It also has rich plug-ins and communities , which can meet the daily use of various tools, and you no longer have to search everywhere online
2.2 snipaste screenshot tool - screenshot + texture tool
Snipaste provides powerful and easy-to-use screenshots, stickers and image annotation functions, with rich customization options to meet your various needs. The screenshot function can not only automatically select interface elements, but also perform precise mouse movements through the W A S D keys, and has a unique screenshot recording and playback function. The sticker function is to pin screenshots or other pictures as windows to the top. Maybe you have not come across this operation before, please try it. Making good use of the sticker function will greatly improve your work efficiency!
Official website address:http://snipste.dlnjkj.cn/index.html
We may use screenshot tools a lot. WeChat, QQ, etc. all have their own screenshot tools, but it is not good if we want to keep a screenshot on top for viewing. At this time, the snipaste texture tool is not very easy to use!
- The sticker function is to pin screenshots or other pictures as windows to the top. Maybe you haven’t been exposed to this operation before, please try it. Making good use of the sticker function will greatly improve your work efficiency!
2.3 Find files: Everthing
Everything "Everything" is a filename search engine on Windows. How Everything differs from other search engines Lightweight installation files. Clean and simple user interface. Fast file indexing. fast Search.
Download location:https://www.voidtools.com/zh-cn/
Mainly by remembering a little bit about the file name, you can quickly search for the file you want on Windows. You no longer have to rummage through disks to search for files. And the installation package is extremely lightweight.
2.4 Everyone is a PPT master: iSlide
iSlide is a PPT-based plug-in. It contains 38 design auxiliary functions and over 300,000 professional PPT templates and materials, which can help you solve various problems in using PPT for scientific research reports.
Government location:https://www.islide.cc/
Find templates, pictures, icons, colors, etc. The search is free, and whatever appears can be used for free, and high-definition large images can also be exported. Supports one-click typesetting, alignment, unified fonts, and font sizes... helping you free yourself from complicated original editing.
With iSlide, work reports and thesis defenses are even more powerful.
2.5 All-in-one online format converter: ALL TO ALL
ALL TO ALL is an online conversion tool that supports more than 200 formats, and all format conversion operations on the website are completely free.
Government location:https://www.alltoall.net/
Supports more than 200 video formats, audio formats, picture formats, common documents, table formats, presentation document formats, e-book formats, and compressed formats.
2.6 iFlytek Spark Knowledge Base Document Q&A
Based on the iFlytek Spark knowledge base solution, efficiently retrieve document information and accurately answer professional questions
Provide AI analysis, reading, and question and answer tools, and let the large model help you understand document content efficiently< /span>
Official:https://chatdoc.xfyun.cn/chat
Supports documents in pdf, doc, bt, md and other formats, with a single file not exceeding 20MB/1 million words.
Hints will be given at the end of the answer regarding the page numbers involved in the answer.
You can choose to ask questions on a single document, and also support multi-document Q&A
2.7 Paper rewriting artifact: QuillBot
SCI paper writing tool Quillbot｜Reduce weight, polish and summarize
QuillBot has an online version, a Word version (but only supports Windows computers), and a Chrome plug-in.
First test the Paraphraser tool and paraphrase the paragraph. This is a special feature of QuillBot. The online version supports up to 125 words at a time (maybe the word plug-in can support more, but there is no test). Enter a paragraph of English and see the picture below before and after rewriting. It can give people good modification tips and reference, and it will be of great help in improving English descriptions.
3. Literature search reader
3.1 Domestic light academic tool: Aminer
Download literature, pursue hot topics, select mentors, find experts, read literature, and read conferences. You can use this tool to do it all. Aminer provides scientific and technological information mining services to scientific research management departments such as the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
After registering and logging in, enter the subject keywords in the search box on the homepage to quickly find 1,000 Chinese and foreign authoritative experts in the field and download 10,000+ high-quality papers in the field.
3.2 X-MOL Academic
This academic platform comes with a Chinese translation function, which is very friendly to people who are not good at English. I usually use it more.
3.3 Latitude academics
In addition to several English literature and journal websites provided by the school library, this latitude academic is also a very good retrieval tool, and provides a very good and timely document mutual assistance function, which is also very easy to use.
3.4 Zhiyun: English Literature Reader
It has all the common functions, and the translation is relatively accurate, but the compatibility is not very good, it is difficult to take notes, and it does not have the document management function.
Download location:https://www.zhiyunwenxian.cn/
3.5 Little Green Whale
General function – word-marking translation, including “Whale Translation”, “Google Translate”, “Youdao Translation”, “360 Translation”, and “Kingsoft PowerWord”. The quality of translation is subject to different opinions, but most of the content is still acceptable.
Download address:https://www.xljsci.com/
Universal function - take notes, you can take notes at any location, there are many note templates to choose from, and this note-taking is much smoother than "Zhiyun", but I usually don't take notes directly on it, I always use Markdown reads the paper locally with questions and makes excerpts of notes. But Little Green Whale has a special function that can excerpt corpus. During the process of reading the paper, if you feel that the English writing is good, you can directly make an excerpt and record it. When you write the paper-related work, you can directly change it and use it without having to recall the meaning of the expression. Which English document does it appear in?
Vocabulary book, you can add words you don’t know during the paper reading to the word book. I feel that this function is quite practical, but I usually add it to the word book and don’t read it again. After reading a few more related papers, I will naturally become familiar with the words. Strange enough to feel familiar.
Document management, although this function is not as powerful as professional document management tools, it is barely enough. We can summarize and organize our papers, classify, label, and prepare bibliographic information: DOI, original title , author, journal, publication time, partition, impact index, abstract.
etc.