Resources

a personally curated research hub built to support focused reading, structured learning, and continuous development. it brings together trusted publishers, paper repositories, and practical tools in one place, making it easier to explore ideas, track knowledge, and turn learning into meaningful projects over time.

Nerd

• Springer
• Springer-Nature
• Elsevier
• Academic Press
• Morgan Kaufmann
• MIT Press
• IEEE Press
• ACM Press
• Wiley
• Taylor & Francis
• CRC Press
• Cambridge University Press
• Oxford University Press
• SIAM
• World Scientific
• Pearson
• Addison-Wesley
• Prentice Hall
• McGraw-Hill
• Apress
• Packt Publishing
• O’Reilly Media
• Morgan & Claypool
• IOS Press
• No Starch Press
• Birkhäuser (Springer)
• De Gruyter
• SAGE Publishing
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• ASME Press
• Princeton University Press
• Harvard University Press
• Stanford University Press
• Dummies
• My Majors
• MIT Catalogue
• Stanford University
• Harvard University
• QS World University Ranking

Sources

• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Nature Research
• Royal Society Publishing
• Science (AAAS)
• ACM Digital Library
• Semantic Scholar
• Mapping Research
• CiteSeerX
• Paperscape
• Scholar Archive
• Academia.edu
• Paperity
• Google Scholar
• Papers with Code
• arXiv
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• PubMed
• ResearchGate

Tools

• NaturalReader - AI text to speech reader

• Directory of Open Access Books - Free academic open access books

• Anna’s Archive - Search engine for shadow libraries

• Google Colab - Cloud notebooks for Python coding

• Coursera - University courses and certifications online

• Simplilearn - Professional tech and business courses

• Great Learning - Career focused learning platform

• Udemy - Marketplace for online video courses

• edX - University backed online learning platform

• Class Central - MOOC search and review platform

• Notion - Notes tasks docs workspace tool

• Obsidian - Markdown based knowledge management app

• Feedly - RSS news and research aggregator

• Pocket Casts - Cross platform podcast listening app

• ResearchRabbit – Spotify-style paper recommendations + citation maps.

• Inciteful – Citation network analyzer; finds similar papers & key authors.

• Litmaps – Timeline-based literature mapping with alerts.

• Connected Papers – Visual semantic maps.

• Elicit – Automates lit reviews, extracts data from 125M+ papers. Generous free tier.

• Perplexity AI – Conversational search with inline citations. Free.

• Consensus – Yes/No answers across papers + Consensus Meter.

• SciSpace – Read, annotate, cite, and write with AI assistance. Free tier.

• Explainpaper – Highlight text → AI explanation. Free.

• Google NotebookLM – AI note-taking, synthesizes sources, study guides. Free.

• Scite – Classifies citations as supporting/contrasting/mentioning; 1.6B+ citations analyzed.

• CiteSpace – Robust visual analytics for bibliometric networks; free version available.

• VOSviewer – Free software for constructing bibliometric networks (journals, researchers, co-citations).

• PaperGraph – CLI tool for building interactive citation connectivity graphs.

• OpenAI Prism – Free cloud-based LaTeX workspace with GPT integration for scientific writing.

• Octree – Open-source AI-powered LaTeX editor with instant browser compilation.

• ChatPDF – Chat with PDFs; summarize, translate, extract info; free tier includes 2 documents/day.

• Gemini – AI research assistant for literature review, summarization, and structured outputs.

• Asta – Unified research platform for discovery, analysis, and synthesis.

• Zotero – ⭐ Reference manager for collecting, organizing, annotating, citing.

• Open Slum – Open-access academic resource discovery engine.

• Ecosystem – Open-source metadata, dependency, and activity analysis.

• Copy.sh – Browser-based x86 emulator for low-level system experimentation.

• Trend Shift – Tech trend tracking across repositories and ecosystems.

• Recherche Book Searcher – ⭐ Aggregated search for digital books and academic texts.

• 2D Search – Radical alternative to conventional search using a two-dimensional canvas for query formulation.

• AI Researcher – Delves into an extensive library of textbooks, pinpointing the most relevant works for your research query.

• Any Summary – Summarizes audio, video, or URLs into bullet points, quotes, or abstracts.

• ASReview Lab – Conducts systematic reviews by searching for and identifying the most relevant records.

• Dimensions AI – Database providing free access to over 100 million publications and preprints.

• Keenious – Analyzes articles and searches for similar research.

• Lateral – Imports papers relevant to your topic and finds similar ones.

• Open Knowledge Maps – Creates a visual map of research based on a search term.

• Citation Gecko – Provides related papers based on citation networking.

• CitNetExplorer – Explores citation networks from Web of Science.

• Paperpile – Manages academic papers with smart citations and bibliographies.

• Danswer – Answers questions with source links and allows persona creation.

• DataSeer – Automates visualization of unstructured data trapped in 2D images.

• docAnalyzer – Real‑time Q&A from one or multiple PDFs.

• Carrot Search – Text clustering and visualization for organizing search results.

• OpenRead – Paper Q&A, fast reading, comments, and annotations.

• AskYourPDF – Upload documents and chat with them.

• Chat with PDF – Summarizes documents and answers questions with AI.

• Genei – Keyword extraction, semantic search, and document summarization.

• Scopus – AI‑powered database of peer‑reviewed literature across disciplines.

• Textero – AI text generation for research papers and content creation.

• ProDream – Writing assistant to enhance clarity and effectiveness of research papers.

• Writefull – Language feedback and editing tailored for academic writing.

• CoralAI – AI‑powered writing assistant to refine academic content.

• Wordvice AI – AI‑based proofreading and editing to improve writing quality.

• Bearly – Interact with documents, transcribe audio/video, and generate meeting minutes.

• Transkriptor – Automatic transcription from video, audio, or images.

• Synthesis – Find scientific literature, extract information, and add custom notes.

• Wikipedia – Wikimedia Foundation.

• Beall’s List – ⭐ Standalone journals (predatory publishing watchlist).

• Jenni AI – AI writing assistant for research papers.

• EndNote – Reference management software.