Academic Toolbox

Research Toolkit

A clean launchpad for literature search, discovery, grants, and daily research work.

Core Sources

Start with the essentials

Literature

PubMed

Biomedical and life sciences literature database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

 Funding

NIH

Policy, institutes, grants, and research updates from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

 Discovery

Connected Papers

Explore paper relationships visually to find prior work, follow-up studies, and adjacent ideas.

Useful Additions

Common tools researchers reach for

Search

Google Scholar

Broad citation search across journals, theses, books, and preprints.

 Open Access

PubMed Central

Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

 Preprints

bioRxiv

Preprint server for biology that is often useful for fast-moving literature tracking.

 Preprints

medRxiv

Preprint server for health sciences and clinical research updates.

 Discovery

Semantic Scholar

AI-assisted academic search with citation graphs, paper summaries, and related work.

 Identity

ORCID

Persistent researcher identity used across journal submission, grant, and affiliation systems.

Notes

Built to expand

This first version is intentionally simple. More sites, categories, and workflow shortcuts can be added as your toolkit grows.