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Research Tools and Websites

EndNote Alternatives

Deanship of Library Affairs is always committed to provide you the best resources for your research productivity.
Being Saudi Digital Library Consortium partner, SDL has decided to suspend EndNote Desktop License and use other available alternatives.

Don’t worry! if you were syncing your data to the EndNote Online you can still manage all your references on the go, and keep using the power of EndNote Online

Click here to get access

If your EndNote Data is not already synced you can sync it even after EndNote Desktop is expired Read More... Watch following video how to sync your endnote data.

 

If you want an alternative reference management software, there are wonderful options available for you.

Option 1

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  • Collect with a click: Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

  • Organize your way: Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work..

  • Cite in style: Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 9,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

  • Collaborate freely: Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.

  • Stay in sync: Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your notes, files, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.

Ready to try Zotero?

Zotero is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux with additional Plugins

Learn more using Support Page

WatchVideo Tutorials Arabic | English

Option 2

Using Mendeley you can

  • Access your library, everywhere: Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers.

  • Easy referencing: Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks.

  • Build your Research network: 30 million references and over 6 million researchers to discover. Our personalized recommendations makes staying up to date easy.

Join millions of researchers using Mendeley

And it is for everyone of you either using Windows, Mac, Apple or Android

Learn to use through Help Guide

WatchVideo Tutorials Arabic | English

 

Option 3

RefWorks is a web-based commercial reference management software package subscribed through Saudi Digital Library.

You can create account by visiting the following URL using IAU email.

https://refworks.proquest.com/researcher/

 

Learn to use through Help Guide
WatchVideo Tutorials

 

From further questions and queries please contact library@iau.edu.sa

Booking a Research Device

Deanship of Scientific Research at IAU has initiated a new facility to book research devices;

There are hundreds of devices available for booking, e.g. Real Time PCR, Microplate Reader, Microplate Washer, Microplate Washer, Mercury Survey Meter, Infra-red Actimeter and laptops.

Device Booking Link https://rds.iau.edu.sa/ 

Instructional video English

Instructional video Arabic

Awesome AI websites you should try

Talk To Books

This is an experiment AI tool from Google itself. What do you do with Talk to Books you type in a query sentence or statement in the search box. And then it will help you discover exciting perspectives and books you may want to read.

There are also samples, and you can click on them. These samples look at over 100,000 books to find responses that would likely come next in the conversation.

This is an experiment by Google to teach its AI how real humans have a conversation and how it flows.

AI. Image Enlarger

This website will help you enhance any low-quality photos you may have. So even if you have some pixelated, blurry, and not detailed pictures.

Drop your photo into the box and choose between 2X or 4X resolution. Now that you finished, select download. In a matter of seconds, you can improve the image. You will be surprised by the quality of improvement. The pictures are much smoother and more detailed.

Magic Eraser

It is another tremendous AI-powered photo tool. Magic Eraser allows you to remove any unwanted items or objects from your photo.

You can select the brush size; once you’ve set that, you just highlight what you want to remove. Afterward, just click on “erase”. And just like that, the unwanted items disappear. Once you are done, you can download the image.

Speech From Text

With Big Speak, you can generate English-speaking speech. In other words, you can generate from text to speech. First, you add your text, and you can choose the voice. There are several options based on gender and the country.

Next, you scroll down and click on the generate button. And in just a few seconds, Big Speak generates a voice from the text. This AI website allows you to generate realistic-sounding audio from text. Big Speak uses machine learning algorithms to bring you the best voice generation technology.

It is free and can be used on social media videos, clips, or presentations.

Rytr

This AI tool will help you write better and faster. You can select the language, tone, and use case with its interface. Enter your post topic, select the number of variants ( usually three ) and creativity level.

It instantly comes up with three different variants of your chosen use case. Rytr is excellent for completely writing your content as inspiration or as a guide to writing your content.

Thing Translator

This website is from Google. Let’s say that you are abroad and there is a language barrier. And you want to translate something like a drink. So you take a picture of that drink, and then you can translate it into that language.

Thing Translator is excellent for your mobile phone and comes in many popular languages.

WordTune

This website will help you to turn your thoughts into words. It is an extension you install on your Chrome browser.

One use case is when you write your emails. Highlight the text you want to improve, and it will give you suggestions in terms of other ways of writing. So it will give you more options and choices instantly.

Another great use of WordTune is when you write an article or social media post. Just highlight the paragraph and click on “rewrite”. And this AI tool will give you more suggestions.