9 Great Search Tools Extensions for Students

April , 2017
Chrome browser has a number of interesting educational extensions to enhance your productivity and facilitate your workflow. Over the last few years we have reviewed hundreds of these extensions which you can access from this page. Today, we are sharing with you 9 effective tools students can use to help them with their online research.  From conducting image searches to saving relevant content to Google Drive, students will absolutely love these extensions. Check them out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page.

This visual is also available for free download in PDF format from this page. Below are links to the extensions featured in the graphic:

• Search by Image
• Google Similar Pages
• Google Scholar Button
• SearchPreview
• Highlight Keywords for Google Search
• Power Thesaurus
• Wikipedia Search
• Save to Google Drive
• Library Extension

A New Tool to Help You Access Paywalled Research Articles for Free

April 17, 2017
One of the biggest concerns of student researchers and academics is access to scientific knowledge stored in the form of journal articles. Many of these articles are not free and unless you are affiliated with a higher education institution, it will cost you a fortune to buy or rent these resources. However, there is now a new chrome extension that lets you ‘ find open-access versions of paywalled research papers’.

Unpaywall is a Chrome and Firefox extension released by Impactstory, which is a  ‘nonprofit working to make science more open and reusable online’. Unpaywall enables you to get access to free , legal fulltext of research papers. Next time you find a paywalled research article, Unpaywall runs an automatic search in its index to look for a copy of the article, if found, you will be able to access and read it by clicking on the green button. To learn more about Unpaywall, check out its FAQ page.
Courtesy of Open Culture.

5 Important Chrome Extensions to Clip and Save Web Content

March 31, 2017
In today's post, we are sharing with you 5 excellent Chrome extensions you can use to clip and save web content right into any of the popular cloud storage platforms you use. In this way you will be able to access and view your clipped content across different devices. More specifically, we have provided Chrome extensions that enable you to clip web content to : Google Drive, OneNote, Google Keep, Dropbox, and Evernote. Check them out and see which one works the best for you.

1- Save to Google Drive

‘The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.’

2- OneNote Web Clipper

‘OneNote Web Clipper lets you quickly clip all or part of a web page to OneNote, and save it for later. Clip images, pdfs, videos, or a visual bookmark of a page. Best of all, you can access them from any computer, tablet, or phone - even when you're offline.’

3- Google Keep

‘Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things  you care about  to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.’

4- QuickDrop

QuickDrop allows you to download to cloud storage any file from the webpage using context menu. ‘Right click on an image or file link (the file link must contain a readable file name, for example: http://site.com/file.pdf), choose and click the upload destination folder from context menu and the file will be downloaded to the storage. Progress bar to inform you how much time it takes.’

5- Evernote Web Clipper

‘Evernote Web Clipper  enables you to clip the web pages you want to keep. Save them in Evernote. Easily find them on any device. ’