Tools for Digital Research

Online Collections: Medical or Scientific 

• A list of history of medicine digital collections maintained by McGill Library.
• Applied Math and Science Education Repository - Portal of educational resources for teachers.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library - Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions working to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections.
• Darwin Correspondence Project -Transcriptions of Charles’ Darwin’s incoming and outgoing correspondence.
• The Embryo Project Encyclopedia - Online encyclopedia developed using Semantic Web tools to help identify agents of change in the history of embryology.
• Medical Heritage Library - Our own collection at the Internet Archive!
• National Science Digital Library - Educational resources.
• NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research - Includes information on rare diseases, rare disease genetics, research and clinical trials, patient advocacy, and much more.
• uBio - Project to create a comprehensive list of names of all living and once-living organisms.
• UVa Scholars’ Lab - Geospatial, text, image, and statistical resources.

Online Collections: Other (many of these have history of medicine or science material, but it is not the primary focus of the collection or portal.)

• American Memory from the Library of Congress – Materials from the Library of Congress covering a variety of topics in American history.
• At the Circulating Library - A biographical and bibliographical database for Victorian fiction.
• Calisphere - Primary sources on the history of California.
• CELT - “The Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish history, literature, and politics.”
• Connected Histories - Digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain.
• Discover Yale Digital Commons - Access to a wide variety of items from the collections of Yale’s museums, libraries, and special collections.
• DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals - Search for freely accessible, open access journals on almost any subject.
• e-codices - Access to selected medieval and early modern manuscripts of Switzerland.
• First World War Poetry Digital Archive - Primary source material from the major poets of the period.
• Hathi Trust - Text repository.
• LOUISiana Digital Library - Online collection of material concerning the history of Louisiana, contributed from 22 participating institutions in Louisiana.
• The Internet Archive - Huge multi-format archive hosting a wide variety of projects and materials
• Online Archive of California - Aggregator for finding aids from more than 150 contributing institutions; also allows for digital access to some materials available online.
• Online Books Page - From the University of Pennsylvania, a growing list of online texts.
• The Oxford Text Archive - Text repository (access to some texts is restricted).
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey - Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary of Newgate Accounts.
• Project Gutenberg - Free fiction and non-fiction texts in a variety of formats.
• Transportation Library Menu Collection - Digitized menus from Northwestern University’s Transportation Library Menu Collection.
• Trove - A collection of online resources about Australian history, including newspapers, books, music, and maps.
• Turning the Pages - Online books made available by the British Library.
• Victoria Research Web-A guide to scholarly resources for Victorianists.
• The Women Writers Project (requires subscription) – Text repository for pre-Victorian women writers.

Research Tools, Text Analysis, and Visualization

• Diigo - Allows you to take notes, add virtual “sticky notes”, or highlight most Webpages.
• Endnote (for purchase) – Citation tool.
• github - A public code repository.
• Google Scratchpad - Handy little free widget that lets you take notes and view them in a pop-out window, a browser window, or a Google Drive folder.
• Omeka - Tool to create collections and present them online using free, open-source software.
• Open Calais - Toolkit for semantic functionality within a blog, content management system, website, etc.
• OpenLayers - Allows you to present geospatial information in a website.
• Neatline - a set of Omeka plug-ins “for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation.”
• Quick Note - Provides you with online scratchpaper; from Diigo.com. Also available for Firefox.
• R (The R Project for Statistical Computing) – Statistical computing and graphics tools.
• RapidMiner - Data mining and analysis tool.
• Readability - Free app that lets you transform webpage text into a more readable format.
• RefWorks (for purchase) – Online research management, writing, and citation tool.
• TaPoR offers a variety of tools for text analysis and exploration.
  • Need help getting started on your text analysis? Check out the TaPoR recipes page.
• TopBraid - Tools to help you model data and work with Semantic Web applications.
• Visual Concept Explorer - Visually explore PubMed.
• Visual Understanding Environment - Concept and content mapping.
• Wandora - “General purpose information gathering, management, and publishing appplication.”
• Zotero - Collection of tools to let you collect and organize your research.