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LabTech Introduction
This document introduces LabTech, a set of tools to help with academic research. It discusses how to search for and save academic documents, papers, source code, and LaTeX files. It also provides alternatives to common tools like Wikipedia and question/answer sites for specialized academic topics. The goal is to provide graduate students with advanced tips for efficiently finding and organizing information online to support their research.
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- 1. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Introduction to LabTech How to search & save things on the Internet -Advanced tips for graduate students- VIA Next Innovators Tokyo1 (Authorized Affiliate of VIA Programs2 ) November 2019, at our Learning Cafe 1next innovators tokyo@viaprograms.org 2http://viaprograms.org/ 1 / 18
- 2. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Outline 1 Introduction 2 Open Access 3 Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers 4 Data Backup LATEX Source Codes 5 Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites 2 / 18
- 3. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Introduction What is LabTech ? Laboratory Tech→Made to help your research. Search & Save Data Backup LATEX Source Code (C, C++, Python, Julia) Smarter Browsing on the Internet 3 / 18
- 4. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Open Access Open Access Week is held every October Here are some things related to open access arXiv doaj.org PubPeer SpringerOpen Google Chrome/Firefox extensions Open Access Button Unpaywall Researcher SNS academia.edu ResearchGate 4 / 18
- 5. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Search & Save We have many search engines. Google Bing DuckDuckGo3 Baidu (Used in China) Yandex (Used in Russia)4 But there are better options for academic data. 3https://duckduckgo.com/ 4https://yandex.com/ 5 / 18
- 6. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Databases Academia.edu, ResearchGate (researcher version LinkedIn) Academic Search5 arXiv (preprint database) Google Scholar SpringerLink (database for Springer publications) ScienceDirect (database for Elsevier publications) Core6 , JSTOR, Scopus NSF Semantic Scholar Wiley Online Library 5https://academicsearch.org/ 6https://core.ac.uk/ 6 / 18
- 7. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Databases Sometimes SNS are useful. Unofficial arXiv bots for each areas Springer, Elsevier accounts Tells breaking news in each discipline. 7 / 18
- 8. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Well-Known Academic Publishers Springer group Elsevier Academic Press Addison-Wesley CRC Press Dover Publications Walter de Gruyter World Scientific University publishers Cambridge Univ. Press Oxford Univ. Press Princeton Univ. Press 8 / 18
- 9. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Saving Academic Papers There are many ways to save things on the Internet. Dropbox (Dropbox Paper, Dropbox Spaces) Google Drive, Google Keep, Google One Icedrive MEGA7 Pocket (saving bookmarks)8 Onedrive 4sync 4shared But there are better options for academic papers. 7https://mega.nz/ 8https://getpocket.com/ 9 / 18
- 10. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Saving Academic Papers These are tools to save academic papers. Mendeley RefWorks colwiz EndNote ReadCube RefMe Zotero How they work Automatically detect publication data Suggest new papers to read 10 / 18
- 11. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Data Backup Unexpected things happen before deadline !!! Mistakes found before submission Computer breaks down Don’t forget data backup !!! 11 / 18
- 12. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites LATEX There are many ways to save things on the Internet. Dropbox Google Drive, Google Keep Icedrive MEGA Onedrive 4sync 4shared But there are better options for LATEX. 12 / 18
- 13. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites LATEX Online TEX compilers/tools Cloud LATEX, Overleaf9 CoCalc10, Verbosus/VerbTeX11 Messenger LATEX(Google Chrome extension) LATEX ⇐⇒ pictures TeXclip12, CodeCogs (also generates URL)13 Mathpix (convert picture to LATEX) LATEX From Web (Google Chrome extension) Moeditor: LATEX version notepad (LATEX+ HTML) 9https://overleaf.com/ 10https://cocalc.com/ 11https://www.verbosus.com/latex.html 12https://texclip.marutank.net/ 13https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php 13 / 18
- 14. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Source Codes There are many ways to save things on the Internet. Dropbox Google Drive, Google Keep Icedrive MEGA Onedrive 4sync 4shared But there are better options for source codes. 14 / 18
- 15. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Source Codes Here are tools to save source codes. GitHub BitBucket (You can also make private repositories) Gitea14 GitLab You can also make private repositories You can import from GitHub, BitBucket, Gitea etc. Jupyter Notebook (Python, Julia, R are available) Dropbox Paper Slack (Snippets are available, many open source clones are known) MatterMost Gitter Zulip Rocket.Chat myCompiler (Compiler on your browser)15 14https://gitea.io/en-us/ 15https://www.mycompiler.io/ 15 / 18
- 16. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Wikipedia Alternatives Options nLab (about Science) Scholarpedia (about science) Wolfram MathWorld Encyclopedia of Mathematics 15https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage 15http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main Page 16 / 18
- 17. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Q& A Sites Q& A Sites Quora (available in many languages) Stack Exchange (Includes many areas) Mathematics (for students)/Math Overflow (high level) Mathematica Physics LATEX, TEX Ubuntu Unix & Linux Computer Science Computational Science Emacs Academia Stack Overflow→Questions about Programming Cross Validated 17 / 18
- 18. Introduction to LabTech VIA Next InnovatorsTokyo Introduction Open Access Search & Save Searching Documents Databases Well-Known Academic Publishers Saving Academic Papers Data Backup LATEX Source Codes Tools to Search Wikipedia Alternatives Q& A Sites Thank You Very Much Your attention and interest is appreciated !!! Here’s our website https://sites.google.com/a/viaprograms.org/via-next-innovators-homepage/ 18 / 18