METIER SOLUTIONS LTD Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London. WC2H 9JQ, UK Registered Company Number 12295768 Research Tool Kit Made freely available by Metier Solutions Ltd. Further information and inquiries can be made by emailing [email protected] or by visiting www.metier-sol.com. © 2021 1 Foreword The latest version of our Research Tool Kit (RTK) is a collection of links that we hope any researcher analysist will find useful. No list of research tools is perfect, nor is it likely to be complete. Such is the pace of change that by the time you read this document some of our suggestions may have been surpassed or have ceased to exist. Work on the next iteration of the RTK has already begun. For now, I hope this version contributes to improving your efficiency and effectiveness as a researcher, analyst. Please feel free to share. To encourage its broadest possible dissemination and use, we are publishing the RTK under a Creative Commons CC BY License. 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It must not be reproduced for trade or commercial purposes. © 2021 2 1 Information ........................................................................................................................................................ 6 1.1 Books and Reading .................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Countries ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.3 Lectures, Talks, Conference Presentations, Speeches ........................................................................... 8 1.4 Podcasts ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 2 Q&A Sites ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 3 Search ................................................................................................................................................................ 16 3.1 Blog ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 3.2 Code ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 3.3 Document .................................................................................................................................................. 16 3.4 Forums and Discussion Boards .............................................................................................................. 16 3.5 General ....................................................................................................................................................... 17 3.6 News .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 3.7 Other .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 3.8 Search Engine Guides .............................................................................................................................. 18 3.9 Tools ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 4 Data & Statistics............................................................................................................................................... 20 4.1 Analysis ..................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.2 Dashboard Tools ...................................................................................................................................... 20 4.3 Data Analysis ............................................................................................................................................ 20 4.4 Data and Statistics .................................................................................................................................... 21 4.5 Data Collation ........................................................................................................................................... 24 4.6 Fact Checking ........................................................................................................................................... 27 4.7 Infographics and Data Visualization ..................................................................................................... 27 4.8 Language Translation .............................................................................................................................. 30 4.9 Public Datasets ......................................................................................................................................... 30 5 Documents ....................................................................................................................................................... 32 5.1 Document and Reference Management ................................................................................................ 32 5.2 Document Search ..................................................................................................................................... 32 5.3 Fonts ........................................................................................................................................................... 32 The information in this publication may not reproduced or used for any other purpose, without written permission obtained from Metier Solution Ltd. It must not be reproduced for trade or commercial purposes. © 2021 3 5.4 Paste sites .................................................................................................................................................. 32 5.5 PDF Management..................................................................................................................................... 32 6 Climbing ........................................................................................................................................................... 35 The information in this publication may not reproduced or used for any other purpose, without written permission obtained from Metier Solution Ltd. It must not be reproduced for trade or commercial purposes. © 2021 4 The information in this publication may not reproduced or used for any other purpose, without written permission obtained from Metier Solution Ltd. It must not be reproduced for trade or commercial purposes. © 2021 5 1 Information 1.1 Books and Reading 100 Million Book : www.100millionbooks.org Amazon Cheap Books : b Audible : www.audible.com Auditus : auditus.cc Bibliomania : www.bibliomania.com Blinkist : www.blinkist.com Bookbub : www.bookbub.com BookClub : bookclub.cool Bookish : www.bookish.com Booklikes : booklikes.com Bookmate : bookmate.com Books : 52book Books on the Knob : blog.booksontheknob.org Bookseer : bookseer.com Bookstr : www.bookstr.com Calibre : www.calibre-ebook.com Daily Cheap Reads : www.dailycheapreads.com Europeana : www.europeana.eu Favobooks : favobooks.com Free Kindle Books : freekindlebooks.org Gnooks : www.gnooks.com Goodreads : www.goodreads.com Google Books : books.google.com Hathi Trust Digital Library : www.hathitrust.org How Long To Read : www.howlongtoreadthis.com I love my Kindle : ilmk.wordpress.com Internet Archive Texts : details.php ISBN Plus : isbnplus.com Jellybooks : www.jellybooks.com Just Free Books : www.justfreebooks.info Keendly : keendly.com KindleNationDay : kindlenationdaily.com KindleWorld : kindleworld.blogspot.com LibraryThing : www.librarything.com Librivox : librivox.org The information in this publication may not reproduced or used for any other purpose, without written permission obtained from Metier Solution Ltd. It must not be reproduced for trade or commercial purposes. © 2021 6 Loyal Books : www.loyalbooks.com Many Books : manybooks.net Narro : www.narro.co Open Culture: Free Audiobooks : freeaudiobooks Open Library : openlibrary.org OpeningtheBook : www.openingthebook.com Overdrive : www.overdrive.com ParrotRead : parrotread.com Pixel of Ink : www.pixelofink.com Project Gutenberg : www.gutenberg.org Read : introducing-read-for-ios-de4d2799254a.z3lrigjr7 Reader IQ : www.ereaderiq.com Readgeek : www.readgeek.com Readism : bmiolhceebkeljaikojgcoeefblcihje199Readlax Readwise : noggimpgfjnknjblddfibbdnocffdoii Reddit: 52 Weeks, 52 : readwise.io Riffle : www.rifflebooks.com SendtoKindle : sendtokindle Talk to Books: : talktobooks TasteDive: Books : books The Getty Research Institute : library The Online Books Page : search.html The Online Books Page : search.html TheBooksProject : thebooksproject.co TheFrugaleReader : www.thefrugalereader.com Tinderizer :