E-Reference: Tools

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

Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.

An application for creating floor plans, flow charts, diagrams, etc. A Basic version is available for free after registration. Premium features are available for fee.

Create documents and spreadsheets using these free applications provided by Google. CNU students, faculty and staff can access this through their CNU Connect (email) account.

"Improve your writing skills and your vocabulary."

An open source (free!) suite of office productivity software that can be downloaded onto your computer. Includes programs for word processing, presentations, and creating databases.

"R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS."

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

This website will help you to convert files to different formats. Check the site to see what file extensions can be converted.

A free suite of office productivity software including a word processor, slide presentation, and a database creator.

"calc101.com can only do freshman integrals. Out of nearly four thousand tests from four calculus books, there were a few calc101.com couldn't do. That's better than 99.9%.Derivatives are free! Enter your function in the derivative field and press Do it! You can get the second derivative as well as the first by replacing 1 by 2 in the third box. Polynomial long multiplication and long division are also free. Integrals are cheap. You need to get a password to do an integral. You can buy a $15 password for 900 solutions."

This site provides access to exchange rates as well as other converters (temperature, weight, etc.) and calculators.

"KJE Computer Solutions, LLC's information and interactive calculators are made available to you as self-help tools for your independent use and are not intended to provide investment advice." Calculators cover topics such as: mortgage, retirement, loans, debt, etc.

A service provided by MarketWatch, Inc., BigCharts is a business website that provides access to research tools such as interactive charts, stock quotes, historical stock quotes, etc. Some of the historical quotes are available back to 1985.

"KJE Computer Solutions, LLC's information and interactive calculators are made available to you as self-help tools for your independent use and are not intended to provide investment advice." Calculators cover topics such as: mortgage, retirement, loans, debt, etc.

Find a currency converter in addition to other useful currency related tools.

Can translate up to 150 words from English into numerous other languages and from those languages into English.

"Instantly translate text, web pages, and files between over 50 languages."

"...the largest human-edited abbreviations directory of the web." In addition to the abbreviations page there is a conversions page, an expressions page, a zip code directory, and a web directory.

Need to find out what an acronym stands for? Try Acronym Finder. It contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations.

If you're having trouble with an internet site, this service can help you determine if the site is actually down or if it is just an access problem on your computer.

Use this site to access international telephone information. Choose a continent and then choose a country.

A site that provides a number of useful search tools, language tools, and research tools grouped together in one place. Has the advantadge of a standard search interface for all the different web tools.

"Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things." Keep track of books you have read and books you want to read, see what others are reading, and get their opinions and reviews.

Provides access to a variety of lookup tools for addresses, zip codes, maps, statistics, etc. Guest users may make a limited number of free lookups per day.

This site from the U.S. Postal Service will help locate a zip code.

Keep track of what your reading, have read and want to read next.