Free Software for Research and Teaching


Software that is useful for educators, all free, all online. Most of these need to be downloaded, but once done you can often use them offline.
I want to….
… write an article
AbiWord https://www.abisource.com/
OpenOffice https://www.openoffice.org/
… add references to my article
Menderley https://www.mendeley.com/
Zotero https://www.zotero.org/
… make a presentation
OpenOffice https://www.openoffice.org/
… make a spreadsheet
OpenOffice https://www.openoffice.org/
… have access to academic journals
Academia.edu https://www.academia.eu/
Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org/
… read academic books
Library Genesis https://gen.lib.rus.ec/
Google Books https://www.books.google.com/
Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
Open Library https://openlibrary.org/
Open Textbook Library https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Open Educational Resources https://oercommons.org/
… have an online CV/Resume
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/
… upload my own articles and share ideas with others
Academia https://academia.edu/
… know what conferences are happening
Conference Alerts https://www.conferencealerts.com/
Intl. Studies Association https://www.isanet.org/
… attend an online course
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
… listen to an inspirational talk
TED Talks https://www.ted.com/
… edit some photos
GIMPShop https://www.gimpshop.com/
… play music or films
VLC Media Player https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
… play music and create playlists
MusikCube https://musikcube.com/
… protect my computer against viruses
ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com/
… organise accounting
TurboCASH 5 http://turbocash.ning.com/page/landing
GnuCash https://www.gnucash.org/