Suite of desktop and online Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. GIS software allows for the compilation, analysis and visualization of geographic data. The suite includes, among many others, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps
GitHub is a website offering storage and collaboration tools for software development, based on the version control system Git. Commonly used to host opensource software, it can also be used to host datasets.
NVivo software is designed to help researchers organize, code, and analyze qualitative and mixed methods research data.
The SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with other applications.
A web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews. Covidence supports citation screening, full text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.
Data conversion and transformation software with a focus on geospatial formats.
Gephi is an open-source software for network visualization and analysis.
Global Mapper is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) desktop software, specializing in spacial data processing, analysis and visualization.
Reference management software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.
The MADlab is devoted to accelerating mobile software development. The Lab hosts equipment, collaborative workspace, user groups and workshops, and is open to all University of Toronto students, staff and faculty
SAS is a powerful, feature-rich, statistical analysis program. It is used in a wide variety of disciplines.
REDCap is a web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data, it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations.
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services including: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Acrobat Professional.
TDM Studio is a web platform for running text analyses on thousands of ProQuest datasets, including, but not limited to, such databases as ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and the New York Times.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the research arm of HathiTrust. It develops tools and resources that enable text or computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.
The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities that offer training in foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
The My Research system is an online portal for research-related administrative and financial activities at the University of Toronto. It is made up of the following four systems:
- My Research Applications (MRA)
- My Research On Line (MROL)
- My Research Animal Protocols (MRAP)
- My Research Human Protocols (MRHP)
Forms is a new feature of Office 365 that allows for quick and easy creation of custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more.
Microsoft Teams is a collaborative, cloud-based workspace and communications tool that allows users to share files, in addition to supporting private and channel-based messaging.
Exhibits U of T showcases digitized material from University of Toronto Libraries collections. This allows faculty and students to create context-rich exhibits and web pages.
A citation management tool which allows you to keep track of your citations used in your research. Users can also annotate and organize research, while collaborating with other colleagues on campus.
Open source citation management tool which helps you collect, organize, cite and share research.
Application for drawing chemical structures for use in database queries, the preparation of graphics for lab reports and journal articles, providing electronic descriptions of molecules and reactions, and features advanced prediction tools.
Open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
UTL Journal Production Services supports open access publishing at U of T by providing free hosting for academic faculty and student journals on Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. You can publish your journal with UTL Journal Production Services.
Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. Researchers at U of T can get a free 1-year license for non-commercial academic research or teaching.
Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling tool that allows you to keep track of appointments and clients.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that can be used to store, organize, analyze and visualize data.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
Microsoft Stream is a secure video service that allows you to share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions and related videos. With Stream, users can access their videos on multiple devices from any location and deliver both live and on-demand videos to curated audiences.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows researchers and students to create corpora and perform computational analyses on Gale Collections materials.
LibKey Nomad is a Chrome extension that provides instant links to full text content for articles as you do research on the web. Get one click access to library content from publisher websites like PubMed, Wikipedia and more.
BrowZine is an app that allows you to access and browse e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface.
WAVE is a web accessibility evaluation tool. It provides visual feedback about the accessibility of your web content by injecting icons and indicators into your page.
ARC Toolkit is an accessibility testing tool that quickly and efficiently evaluates screens for accessibility and uncovers issues related to the WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA guidelines.
The axe accessibility checker for Chrome tests for accessibility issues on your website or web application.
CADRE is a cloud-based text and data mining service for large datasets. Over 220 million scientific publications and 1.7 billion citations can be queried and analyzed.
Compute Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (ARC) systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada includes SciNet, the supercomputer centre at the University of Toronto.
Jupyter is an open-source tool that supports interactive data science and scientific computing across programming languages. There is a JupyterHub at SciNet available for research use.
Constellate is a browser-based tool for creating datasets from collections, such as JSTOR, and then teaches and facilitates text analysis on those datasets.
Suite of desktop and online Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. GIS software allows for the compilation, analysis and visualization of geographic data. The suite includes, among many others, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps
GitHub is a website offering storage and collaboration tools for software development, based on the version control system Git. Commonly used to host opensource software, it can also be used to host datasets.
NVivo software is designed to help researchers organize, code, and analyze qualitative and mixed methods research data.
The SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with other applications.
A web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews. Covidence supports citation screening, full text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.
Data conversion and transformation software with a focus on geospatial formats.
Gephi is an open-source software for network visualization and analysis.
Global Mapper is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) desktop software, specializing in spacial data processing, analysis and visualization.
Reference management software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.
SAS is a powerful, feature-rich, statistical analysis program. It is used in a wide variety of disciplines.
REDCap is a web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. While REDCap can be used to collect virtually any type of data, it is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations.
TDM Studio is a web platform for running text analyses on thousands of ProQuest datasets, including, but not limited to, such databases as ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and the New York Times.
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the research arm of HathiTrust. It develops tools and resources that enable text or computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.
The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities that offer training in foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
Forms is a new feature of Office 365 that allows for quick and easy creation of custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations and more.
Microsoft Teams is a collaborative, cloud-based workspace and communications tool that allows users to share files, in addition to supporting private and channel-based messaging.
Exhibits U of T showcases digitized material from University of Toronto Libraries collections. This allows faculty and students to create context-rich exhibits and web pages.
A citation management tool which allows you to keep track of your citations used in your research. Users can also annotate and organize research, while collaborating with other colleagues on campus.
Open source citation management tool which helps you collect, organize, cite and share research.
Application for drawing chemical structures for use in database queries, the preparation of graphics for lab reports and journal articles, providing electronic descriptions of molecules and reactions, and features advanced prediction tools.
Open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
UTL Journal Production Services supports open access publishing at U of T by providing free hosting for academic faculty and student journals on Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. You can publish your journal with UTL Journal Production Services.
Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. Researchers at U of T can get a free 1-year license for non-commercial academic research or teaching.
Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling tool that allows you to keep track of appointments and clients.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that can be used to store, organize, analyze and visualize data.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
Microsoft Stream is a secure video service that allows you to share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions and related videos. With Stream, users can access their videos on multiple devices from any location and deliver both live and on-demand videos to curated audiences.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows researchers and students to create corpora and perform computational analyses on Gale Collections materials.
LibKey Nomad is a Chrome extension that provides instant links to full text content for articles as you do research on the web. Get one click access to library content from publisher websites like PubMed, Wikipedia and more.
BrowZine is an app that allows you to access and browse e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface.
CADRE is a cloud-based text and data mining service for large datasets. Over 220 million scientific publications and 1.7 billion citations can be queried and analyzed.
Compute Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (ARC) systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada includes SciNet, the supercomputer centre at the University of Toronto.
Jupyter is an open-source tool that supports interactive data science and scientific computing across programming languages. There is a JupyterHub at SciNet available for research use.
Constellate is a browser-based tool for creating datasets from collections, such as JSTOR, and then teaches and facilitates text analysis on those datasets.
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services including: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Acrobat Professional.
The My Research system is an online portal for research-related administrative and financial activities at the University of Toronto. It is made up of the following four systems:
- My Research Applications (MRA)
- My Research On Line (MROL)
- My Research Animal Protocols (MRAP)
- My Research Human Protocols (MRHP)
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling tool that allows you to keep track of appointments and clients.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
The MADlab is devoted to accelerating mobile software development. The Lab hosts equipment, collaborative workspace, user groups and workshops, and is open to all University of Toronto students, staff and faculty
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.