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Resources on this page are grouped into the following categories:
- Key services
- Data support and tools
- Geospatial support and tools
- Discovery and citation management
- Writing & publishing support and tools
- Featured societies, open access publications
- Top research tools and services for graduate students
Key services
Research consultation in your subject area.
Exhibitions, invited lectures, research topics & tools.
Many electronic resources restrict off-campus access to current Stanford faculty, staff, students, and approved affiliates only.
We can help you borrow books, articles, or other materials that Stanford does not have.
Data support and tools
Organize, manage & share research data. Support for data management plans & DMP Tool.
Help finding & using data for quantitative or qualitative analysis. Help with so ware tools: R, SPSS, Stata, NVivo & more.
Data provisioning, consultation & project development help from the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR).
C² is a free service run by the Stanford Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and offered to all members of the extended Stanford community.
Use SDR to preserve your data, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, and more.
Analytics and data visualization tool used by a number of organizations within Stanford. See Data Practitioners Community of Practice at Stanford.
Offers comprehensive chemical and toxicological information of more than 90 million chemicals and visually shows chemical’s toxicity implications (environmental, health and safety) in an easy to understand visual manner.
The place to find data published by the County of San Mateo.
Geospatial data support and tools
Geospatial data, digital map services, GIS workshops.
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States.
The Geofacets tool is designed to search for, and extract, maps, sections and other geographically-referenced geoscientific data from a very large and growing volume of published content.
Discovery and citation management
Search for research grants using Pivot, grants.gov or Foundation Directory online.
Stanford Libraries catalog that includes books, journals, databases, digital collections & more.
1000’s of databases, full-text articles, data, handbooks. Arranged alphabetically and by subject category.
AccessEngineering offers the widest and deepest repository of fully searchable engineering content available online.
Engineering Village is an information discovery platform that includes access to Compendex (Computerized Engineering Index), the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. Users can also search and locate Knovel e-book, journal and conference proceedings on Engineering Village and link through to Knovel for full-text access.
The IEEE Xplore digital library is your gateway to trusted research—journals, conferences, standards, ebooks, and educational courses—with over 4 million articles to help you fuel imagination, build from previous research, and inspire new ideas.
Yewno is a discovery tool that provides a graphical display of the interrelationships between concepts.
Search multiple databases at one time. The 350 databases in xSearch include citation databases, full-text ebooks and ejournals, data sets, methods & protocols, multimedia, images, etc.
EndNote, Mendeley, Refworks, Zotero & more.
Writing & publishing support and tools
Offers individual consulting and a range of courses to help students improve their technical writing and speaking skills.
Coaches graduate and postdoctoral trainees in developing and articulating research strategies to tackle important scientific questions.
Copyright and intellectual property issues are a part of the fabric of research and scholarly communications, and thus all Stanford faculty, students and staff need a working understanding of copyright law as it impacts their daily lives.
Get your ORCID, link your publications, streamline submissions.
Overleaf is a new collaborative writing and publishing system developed by the team behind the popular WriteLaTeX editor. Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing scientific papers much quicker for both authors and publishers.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) provides free and open source project management support for researchers across the entire research lifecycle.
Publons works with the world's top publishers so you can effortlessly track, verify and showcase your peer review contributions across the world's journals.
Featured societies, open access publications
IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.
SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
PeerJ is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. It considers articles in the Biological Sciences, Computer Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Health Sciences.
This guide includes resources about scholarly publishing in scientific and technical disciplines. Areas covered include peer review, open access, article metrics, journal evaluation tools, and NISO best practices.
Top research tools and services for graduate students
Books, journals, databases, digital collections & more.
1000’s of databases, full-text articles, data, handbooks. Use xSearch to search multiple databases at one time.
Exhibitions, invited lectures, research topics & tools.
EndNote, Mendeley, Refworks, Zotero & more.
Research consultation in your subject area.
Geospatial data, digital map services, GIS workshops.
Organize, manage & share research data. Support for data management plans & DMP Tool.
Help finding & using data for quantitative or qualitative analysis. Help with so ware tools: R, SPSS, Stata, NVivo & more.
Data provisioning, consultation & project development help from the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR).
Use SDR to preserve your data, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, and more.
Search for research grants using Pivot, grants.gov or Foundation Directory online.
Get your ORCID, link your publications, streamline submissions.
LaTeX editing & publication support tools.