Web Tools

Online Profiles

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
- https://orcid.org/
- Work, education, publication; simplified CV
- Used by many journals to identify authors
- Strongly recommended for people interested in an academic career
- All lab members should sign up for an account and fill out the basic info
Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/
- Publication list and citation statistics
- Email notifications of new publications based on keyword/people
- Strongly recommended for people interested in an academic career
Web of Science (WoS)
- https://www.webofscience.com/
- More limited than Google Scholar
- Includes contribution as editors/reviewers
- Recommended for people interested in an academic career
LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/
- “Facebook for industry”
- Strongly recommended for people interested in moving to industry
Your own website?
- Existing platform (e.g., Google Sites) or self-hosted?
- Build-your-own website for scientists; https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/build-your-own-academic-website-for-scientists-researchers-phd

Joplin: notes
Zotero: reference management
Group chat; see this page for more info
- Google Chat: easy to use
- Mattermost: option for self-hosting; takes effort & resource to setup but offers privacy/security
- Slack: good integration with other tools; free plan is limited, paid plans can be expensive for large teams
- Discord: easy to use; privacy concern
Doodle: scheduling
Worldtimebuddy: time zone conversion
Delinea-password: random password generator
Coolors: color palettes
Colorbrewer: color palettes
BioRender: making science figures
Benchling: planning molecular biology experiments
- For our lab members
  - Sign-up using this invitation code: https://benchling.com/signup?pubref=pubref_OIFaKKff
  - Request to join IPMB/lab groups