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Welcome to Cite This for Me

About Cite This For Me

Cite This For Me is one of the most popular citation tools today. Launched in October 2010, we began with the mission of helping students create perfect citations in a fraction of the time. Since then, Cite This For Me has assisted millions of users across the world including in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and beyond.

Why Citing Matters

Citing isn't something you usually think about, but it's important nonetheless. Without even realizing it, you do it already in your everyday life in little ways. Have you ever said, "I heard on XYZ News that . . . ," or "I read in XYZ that those two celebrities are dating," or even "Mom said that you can't do that." By saying where you got your information, you are casually citing a source.

We do this because it gives credibility to what we say, but also because it credits the originator of the information and allows others to follow up if they need more information. Formal citing done for papers and projects takes this a step further. In addition to the reasons mentioned above, citing sources in academia provides evidence of your research process and helps you avoid plagiarism.

Plagiarism is a word you never want to hear describing your work. You've probably seen headlines in the news and heard stories in school about the negative consequences of plagiarism. It's not good but it is preventable. By visiting Cite This For Me to create citations, you're taking steps to to help avoid this.

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Do you know what you're citing? Answering this question is usually the first step in creating a citation. On Cite This For Me, you can choose from a list of 30+ source types. It doesn't matter if you're citing a website, book, video, online image, or something totally different. Cite This For Me has you covered.

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Top 11 Trusted (And Free) Search Engines For Scientific and Academic Research

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Whether Conducting Academic Research or Purely Scientific Research, These Sites can be an Invaluable Aid.

Researching is the most crucial step of writing a scientific paper. It is always a well-researched scientific paper that inspires the assessor. At the same time, it must have genuine and authentic information for credibility. With the development in Internet industry, i.e., web resources, researching for scientific materials has now become a matter of a few clicks. Now students can get information on any topic pertaining to science through academic search engines. They provide a centralized platform and allow the students to acquire literature on any topic within seconds.

While there are many academic search engines available, there are some that have the most trusted resources. They provide information on a range of topics from Engineering and technology to Biology and Natural Science. They provide a one-stop solution to all research-related needs for a scientific paper. Besides, they provide a personal and customized way to search research materials on any given topic. This article will focus on some popular academic search engines that have revolutionized the way information is researched by the students. They are rich in information and have the highest level of credibility.

1. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu): CiteSeerx is a digital library and an online academic journal that offer information within the field of computer science. It indexes academic resources through autonomous citation indexing system. This academic database is particularly helpful for students seeking information on computer and information sciences. It offers many other exclusive features to facilitate the students with the research process that include: ACI - Autonomous Citation Indexing, reference linking, citation statistics, automatic metadata extraction and related documents. Founded in 1998, it is the first online academic database and has since evolved into a more dynamic and user-friendly academic search engine.

2. PLOS ONE(http://www.plosone.org/): Founded in 2006, PLOSE ONE provides a free access platform to everyone searching for science-related information. All the articles publish on PLOS ONE are published after going through a strict peer-reviewed process. This academic database has a meticulous procedure for publishing a journal. You can find plenty of articles and academic publications using this platform.

3. BioOne(http://www.bioone.org/): An excellent search engine for scientific information, BioOne contains academic resources for biological, environmental and ecological sciences. Established in 2000, it started as an NGO and later became an online academic journal directory. The journal gives free access to over 25000 institutions all over the world.

4. ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/): "A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books."

The above mentioned academic database and directories are among the most trusted search engines for scientific research. They offer information on possibly all the major areas of science including computer and technology, biology, environmental science and social sciences, and other areas of academic research.
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Top 11 Trusted (And Free) Search Engines For Scientific and Academic Research

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List of academic databases and search engines

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see:

the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposes

the article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles.

The terms "free", "subscription", and "free & subscription" will refer to the availability of the website as well as the journal articles used. Furthermore, some programs are only partly free (for example, accessing abstracts or a small number of items), whereas complete access is prohibited (login or institutional subscription required).

The "Size" column denotes the number of documents (articles, publications, datasets, preprints) rather than the number of citations or references. The database itself should be the primary source of statistics, and if it is not accessible, the independent estimates released as journal papers should be. Notably, Google Scholar does not offer such detail, but the database's size has been calculated.[2]

Full-text aggregators

The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.

This list focuses on general-purpose services; OpenDOAR can be used to find thousands of open-access repositories. The table is sorted by the number of works for which full-text is made available.

Services with less than a million searchable records.

Publishers

Content by most academic publishers is indexed by CrossRef, DOAJ and/or DataCite. Some publishers are also listed separately in the table below.

The following services are no longer operating; this may be because they were not updated, abandoned entirely, replaced by other, etc.

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Virtual reality project lets users see life as a doomed cow or piece of coral

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Scientists have taken the notion 'you are what you eat' to a new level by using virtual reality to help people see the world through the eyes of a cow - or a piece of coral - to make them feel part of the natural world.

With several consumer virtual reality headsets now on the market, researchers hope experiencing life from an animal's point of view could change environmental behaviour where other methods have failed.

As cows, participants donned virtual reality headsets and were left to walk around a virtual pasture on all fours, jabbed by a virtual cattle prod, and told they were to be loaded on to a truck.

As coral, volunteers saw the reef around them decay as the ocean acidified, their own 'body' corrode, and their branches break off with a crack.

These immersive experiences led people to feel more connected with nature than those who simply watched the simulation play out on a screen, the study found. The aim of the experiments was to make the distant consequences of damaging consumption much more real.

"One of the biggest problems with environmental issues is that there's a huge temporal gap, so it seems like whatever you do in the present doesn't really connect to the environmental problems in the future," explained study co-author Grace Ahn, an assistant professor of advertising at the University of Georgia.

"Virtual reality is an amazing tool in terms of being able to show you the really solid causal relationships - this is what you do today, and here's what might happen 100 years down the road," she said.

The research is part of an emerging field that uses virtual reality to enhance empathy. In a 2013 study co-authored by Ahn, volunteers who were given virtual reality headsets that simulated red-green colour-blindness spent twice as long helping those with the condition compared to participants who merely imagined it.

"We were quite encouraged by these results and we wanted to take it to the next level to check if people could take the perspective of, not just other people, but also other animate beings, including animals," Ahn explained.

One of the unsolved challenges for virtual reality is simulating touch, in order to convince users that they truly inhabit their virtual bodies. In Ahn's experiment, some participants were prodded in real life to make being virtually poked with a cattle prod or bumped by a fishing net as coral feel more real.

The study, which also involved researchers from Stanford University and the University of Connecticut and was recently published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, does not claim virtual reality produces instantaneous transformations in levels of environmental compassion. But it does argue it could be used as a valuable tool in promoting ecological awareness.

After taking off their headsets, "people said 'that's really cool, I've never thought about it this way'," said Ahn.

A short period as a virtual cow is unlikely to leave someone "reborn into this person who has a thorough interest in environmental issues," she acknowledged, but longer-term exposure - perhaps during school - could be "a lot more effective".

"I believe that it's able to amplify the qualities that you already have," Ahn added.
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Raw data is boring and it's difficult to make sense of it in its natural form. Add visualization to it and you get something that everybody can easily digest. Not only you can make sense of it faster, but you can also observe interesting patterns that wouldn't be apparent from looking only at stats.

To make the tedious task of making beautiful charts and maps easier, I've made the list of best data visualization tools available for the job. I've divided the list into two parts; first covers the tools that require coding and are meant for developers, while the second list contains data visualization software products that don't require any coding.

Let's get started!

For Developers

D3.js

D3.js, short for 'Data Driven Documents', is the first name that comes to mind when we think of a Data Visualization Software. It uses HTML, CSS, and SVG to render some amazing charts and diagrams. If you can imagine any visualization, you can do it with D3. It is feature packed, interactivity rich and extremely beautiful. Most of all it's free and open-source.

It doesn't ship with pre-built charts out of the box, but has a nice gallery which showcases what's possible with D3. There are two major concerns with D3.js: it has a steep learning curve and it is compatible only with modern browsers (IE 9+). So pick it up only when you have enough time in hand and are not concerned about displaying your charts on older browsers.

FusionCharts

FusionCharts has probably the most exhaustive collection of charts and maps. With over 90+ chart types and 965 maps, you'll find everything that you need right out of the box. It not only supports modern browsers, but also older browsers starting from IE 6.

FusionCharts supports both JSON and XML data formats, and you can export charts in PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF. They have a nice collection of business dashboards and live demos for inspiration.

Their charts and maps work across all devices and platforms, are highly customizable and have beautiful interactions. One thing to keep in mind about FusionCharts is that it's slightly expensive. But you can always get started with their unrestricted free trial and then buy if you like it.

Chart.js

Chart.js is a tiny open source library that supports just six chart types: line, bar, radar, polar, pie and doughnut. But the reason I like it is that sometimes that's all the charts one needs for a project. If the application is big and complex, then libraries like Google Charts and FusionCharts makes sense, otherwise for small hobby projects Chart.js is the perfect solution.

It uses HTML5 canvas element for rendering charts. All the charts are responsive and use flat design. It is one of the most popular open-source charting librar ies to emerge recently. Check out the documentation for live examples of all six chart types.

Google Charts

Google Charts renders charts in HTML5/SVG to provide cross-browser compatibility and cross-platform portability to iPhones and Android. It also includes VML for supporting older IE versions.

It offers a decent number of charts which covers the most commonly used chart types like bar, area, pie and gauges. It is flexible and user friendly (because Google!). You can view this gallery to get an idea of various charts and the type of interactions to expect.

Highcharts

Highcharts is another big player in the charting space. Like FusionCharts, it also offers a diverse range of charts and maps right out of the box. Other than normal charts, it also offers a different package for stock charts called Highstock which is also feature rich.

It allows exporting charts in PNG, JPG, SVG and PDF. You can view the various chart types it offers in the demo section. Highcharts is free for non-commercial and personal use, but you will have to buy a licence for deploying it in commercial applications.

Leaflet

Leaflet is an open-source library developed by Vladimir Agafonkin for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is extremely light (at just 33kb) and has lots of features for making any kind of maps. It uses HTML5 and CSS3 for rendering maps, and works across all major desktop and mobile platforms. In the words of author:

Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind.

There is a wide range of plugins available for adding features like animated markers, heatmaps etc. that extend the core functionality. If you are thinking of developing an application that involves maps, you should give Leaflet a try.

dygraphs

dygraphs is an open-source JavaScript charting library for handling huge data sets. It's fast, flexible and highly customizable. It works in all major browsers (including IE8) and has an active community.

dygraphs has defined a niche use-case for itself and won't be the perfect solution for all your needs. But it will work for you more often than not whenever you are handling large datasets. To explore what is possible, check out this nicely designed demo gallery.

Non-Developers

Datawrapper

Datawrapper is an online tool for making interactive charts. Once you upload the data from CSV file or paste it directly into the field, Datawrapper will generate a bar, line or any other related visualization. Many reporters and news organizations use Datawrapper to embed live charts into their articles. It is very easy to use and produces effective graphics. If you are looking to get started, here is a nice tutorial to make your task easier.

Tableau

Tableau Public is perhaps the most popular visualization tool which supports a wide variety of charts, graphs, maps and other graphics. It is a completely free tool and the charts you make with it can be easily embedded in any web page. They have a nice gallery which displays visualizations created via Tableau.

Although it offers charts and graphics that are much better than other similar tools, I don't 'love' to use its free version because of the big footer it comes with. If it's not as big a turn-off for you as it is for me, then you should definitely give it a try. Or if you can afford it, you can go for a paid version.

Raw

Raw defines itself as 'the missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics'. It is built on top of D3.js and is extremely well designed. It has such an intuitive interface that you'll feel like you've used it before. It is open-source and doesn't require any registration.

It has a library of 16 chart types to choose from and all the processing is done in browser. So your data is safe. RAW is highly customizable and extensible, and can even accept new custom layouts.

Timeline JS

As the name suggests, Timeline JS helps you create beautiful timelines without writing any code. It is a free, open-source tool which is used by some of the most popular websites like Time and Radiolab.

It's a very easy to follow four-step process to create your timeline which is explained here. Best part? It can pull in media from a variety of sources and has built-in support for Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and other similar sites.

Infogram

Infogram enables you to create both charts and infographics online. It has a restricted free version and two paid options which include features like 200+ maps, private sharing and icons library etc.

It comes with an easy to use interface and its basic charts are well designed. One feature that I didn't like is the huge logo that you get when you try to embed interactive charts into your webpage (in free version). It will be better if they can make it like the little text that Datawrapper uses.

Plotly

Plotly is a web based data analysis and graphing tool. It supports a good collection of chart types with built in social sharing features. The charts and graph types available have a professional look and feel. Creating a chart is just a matter of loading in your information and customizing the layout, axes, notes and legend. If you are looking to get started, you can find some inspiration here.

ChartBlocks

ChartBlocks is another online chart builder that is well designed and allows you to build basic charts very quickly. It has a limited number of chart types, but that will not be a problem as most common chart types are covered.

It allows you to pull in data from multiple external sources like spreadsheets and databases. After you have made the chart, you can either export it via SVG or PNG, embed it in your website or share it on social media.

Data Visualization is a vast space with lots of players. I have tried to include the best tools here irrespective of whether you can code or not. I'm sure I must have missed out some of your favorite tools, so why not talk about them in the comments section below?
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Von Themenfindung bis Veröffentlichung
Vor der Abschlussarbeit steht die Themensuche - dafür können Übersichten fertiger Arbeiten helfen, sei es um Themenideen zu bekommen oder sich zu einzelnen Themen auch mittels Volltext der Arbeit genauer zu informieren. Mancher möchte die Arbeit besonders praxisnah machen und sucht dazu eine Firma. Schließlich soll die fertige Arbeit nicht in der Schublade verstauben - evt. kann man sie kostenlos oder gegen Bezahlung freigeben. Wir stellen Webseiten vor, die bei den genannten Schritten helfen können und das kostenlos (lediglich Volltexte sind z.T. kostenpflichtig).
Vor der Abschlussarbeit: Themensuche und Tipps zum Schreiben der Arbeit

Wer bspw. als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an einem Lehrstuhl beschäftigt ist, bekommt oft schon darüber mögliche Themen mit oder kann sogar die eigene Arbeit mit einer wissenschaftlichen Abschlussarbeit krönen. Aber auch ohne solch direkte Anbindung an einen Lehrstuhl kann man sich natürlich umhören und Profs oder wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen fragen, an welchen Themen sie arbeiten und ob dazu Abschlussarbeiten vergeben werden.

In der Regel kann man aber auch selbst mit Themenideen an wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen herantreten. Dazu sollte man sich vorher aber schon die Mühe machen, die thematischen Schwerpunkte dieser Menschen herauszufinden und sich an die Person zu wenden, zu der die eigene Themenidee am besten passt.

Egal, ob man schon eine Themenidee hat oder diese überhaupt erst finden will: Ein wenig Recherche ist zu empfehlen - schon um zu prüfen, ob das Thema nicht schon massig bearbeitet wurde. Gibt es schon viele ähnliche Arbeiten, muss man sehen, ob sich vielleicht ein Teilproblem finden lässt, dass noch nicht vertieft behandelt wurde. Oder man wendet sich doch etwas anderem zu.

Themenrecherche

Google (oder andere Suchmaschinen) bieten zwar Zugriff auf Unmengen von Webseiten - aber gezielt nach Themen für wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten zu suchen, ist darüber schwer lösbar. Nur wenn das Thema schon sehr genau eingegrenzt ist, kann man natürlich auch auf Suchmaschinen zurückgreifen, um existierende Texte dazu zu finden.

Aber Google hat durchaus auch ein spezialisiertes Angebot: Google Scholar. Dieses erfasst diverse Bibliotheken, kommerzielle Anbieter von Abschlussarbeiten wie Diplom.de oder Grin.de (die aber in der Regel mind. das Inhaltsverzeichnis und eine kleine Zusammenfassung frei online zur Verfügung stellen; Studierende können den Volltext in der Regel zu einem günstigeren Preis als „Normalnutzer" erhalten) und sonstige wissenschaftliche Quellen. Aber eben nicht wirklich alle und was wo auf den Trefferlisten auftaucht, mag je nach eigenen Präferenzen nicht immer perfekt sein. Von daher ist die Nutzung einer spezialisierteren Suche oft sinnvoll - hier können möglicherweise ältere Mitstudierende oder wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen des Fachbereichs Tipps geben.

Interessant ist sicher auch ein Blick in Open Access Journale (und andere freie Quellen). Ein Verzeichnis nach Fächern findet sich hier. Einige Bachelor- und deutlich mehr Master- und Diplomarbeiten (und noch viel mehr wissenschaftliche Artikel) sind im Rahmen des Open Access Netzwerkes (OAN) im Volltext (PDF) zugreifbar. Noch mehr Quellen und Hintergrundinfos finden sich in unserem Artikel Open Access - Der freie Zugang zu Wissen.

Eine (noch kleine) Datenbank von frei zugänglichen studentischen Arbeiten ist übrigens studierendenwissen.de.

Schließlich kann man auch ganz klassisch in der eigenen Hochschul- oder Fachbereichsbibliothek einschlägige Fachmagazine wälzen. Das fachliche Niveau ist dort allerdings oft sehr hoch, schließlich veröffentlichen dort in der Regel nur „fertige" WissenschaftlerInnen. Insbesondere für Bachelorarbeiten also eher ungeeignet.

Wichtig: Am Ende geht es darum, dass man selbst ein Thema ausarbeitet, nicht ums Abschreiben. Mit einem Plagiat schadet man sich nur selbst - ob gleich (wenn es schon bei Abgabe auffliegt) oder später (wenn es dann rauskommt - oder man im Job Schwierigkeiten bekommt, da man eben nie wirklich eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit bis zum Ende selbst erstellt hat und der damit erzielte Lerneffekt nie eintreten konnte).

Was es beim Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit so alles zu beachten gibt, haben wir in einem ausführlichen 5-teiligen Artikel zusammengestellt. Von der Literaturrecherche über den schematischem Aufbau der Arbeit, den eigentlichen Schreibprozess bis zum Literaturverzeichnis geben wir viele Tipps.

Abschlussarbeit in Unternehmen

Will man eine Abschlussarbeit direkt in einem Unternehmen machen (fast immer ist hierbei auch eine Bezahlung durch die Firma dabei), so kann man in vielen Jobbörsen speziell nach Angebot von Unternehmen suchen, die Abschlussarbeiten anbieten. So auch in unser Börse: Abschlussarbeiten in Unternehmen.

Es lohnt sich aber auch, Profs und wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen anzusprechen, sofern diese bekanntermaßen gute Kontakte zu Firmen haben. Nicht alles wird ausgeschrieben. Und manchmal kann man sogar selbst mit einer neuen Idee eine Firma überzeugen. Bei den Angeboten von Firmen (wie in der Börse oben) gilt es umgekehrt, eineN ProfessorIn an der eigenen Hochschule zu finden, die/der bereit ist, das dann auch als Abschlussarbeit zu bewerten.

Bei einer Abschlussarbeit in einem Unternehmen kann es sein, dass die eigene Arbeit nicht (oder nur mit größerem Zeitverzug) öffentlich gemacht werden darf (nächster Punkt). Denn sie will von den Erkenntnissen in der Regel exklusiv bzw. zumindest als erstes profitieren. Im Sinne einer freien Wissenschaft kann das durchaus fragwürdig sein - jedeR sollte sich dieser Problematik zumindest bewusst sein.

Die eigene Arbeit veröffentlichen - kostenlos oder bezahlt

Je nach Studienfach, Thema und BetreuerIn kann selbst eine gelungene Abschlussarbeit „in der Schublade verschwinden". Was schade wäre. Hat man eine Arbeit in einem Unternehmen gemacht, so ist die Veröffentlichung in der Regel von dessen Zustimmung abhängig - in der Regel will das Unternehmen die Erkenntnisse selbst zuerst verwenden. Bzw. möchte nicht alle Details veröffentlicht wissen (Betriebsgeheimnisse etc.). Gibt es derartige Restriktionen, braucht man sich weitere Gedanken eigentlich nicht zu machen.

Die Hochschule selbst verwahrt die Arbeit zwar und darüber ist sie theoretisch auch anderen zugänglich, aber oft nur in Papierform. Ganz davon abgesehen, dass sie ja im Grunde nur gefunden werden kann, wenn sie in geeigneter Weise katalogisiert wird (was nicht die Regel ist). Selbst wenn die Arbeit vollständig oder in Teilen online verfügbar gemacht worden ist, ist sie allein dadurch noch nicht leicht auffindbar. Es gilt also, sie auf einer Seite zu platzieren, die viele Arbeiten sammelt, diese thematisch gruppiert und katalogisiert und somit auch wirklich Anlaufpunkt für diejenigen ist, die nach Arbeiten suchen.

Will und kann man also seine Arbeit veröffentlichen, so muss man sich schließlich entscheiden, ob man vielleicht noch einen finanziellen Gewinn aus der Veröffentlichung ziehen kann (und will) oder ob man die Arbeit kostenfrei zur Verfügung stellen will.

Eigene Abschlussarbeit verkaufen

Diplom.de
Bachelorarbeiten (und höher - also auch Master, Diplom, Staatsexamen) vermarktet seit 1996 Diplom.de (in Einzelfällen werden aber auch Studienarbeiten angenommen). Man kann wählen, ob man ein (kleines) Einmalhonorar erhält oder an den Verkäufen beteiligt wird. Ersteres hat den Vorteil, dass man auf jeden Fall etwas bekommt - aber natürlich den Nachteil, dass man an einem größeren Erfolg nicht teilhaben kann.

diplomarbeiten24.de
diplomarbeiten24.de ist Teil von grin.de/hausarbeiten.de (die ein etwas breiteres Portfolio als Diplom.de haben und neben Abschlussarbeiten auch Hausarbeiten, Essays und sonstige kürzere Arbeiten veröffentlichen) und ähnelt Diplom.de. Bei der Variante Einmalhonorar ist die Bezahlung schlechter als bei Diplom.de. Im Gegensatz zu Diplom.de ist es auch möglich, die Arbeit kostenlos freizugeben.

Eigene Abschlussarbeit als freies Wissen zur Verfügung stellen

Die oben als Recherche-Quelle genannten Open Access Journale (u.ä.) sind für die Veröffentlichung studentischer Abschlussarbeiten in der Regel leider nicht geeignet - dort veröffentlichen fast ausschließlich wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen und ProfessorInnen. Einige Hochschulen beteiligen sich aber schon mit Bachelorarbeiten am oben erwähnten Open-Access-Netzwerk - dann ist eine gute Erreichbarkeit automatisch gegeben. Nachfragen vor Ort lohnt - evt. muss man selbst den Anstoß geben, dass die eigene Arbeit auch dort hineingelangt.

Wer die Abschlussarbeit in Zusammenarbeit mit einer hochschulexternen-Organisation (z.B. Gewerkschaft, gemeinnütziger Verein, Verband etc.) schreibt, hat darüber vielleicht schon eine Möglichkeit zur Veröffentlichung. Soweit möglich, sollte man auch hier darauf achten, dass sie technisch so eingebunden wird, dass sie gut gefunden werden kann - und auch möglichst auf Dauer online bleibt (gerade letzteres ist durchaus ein Problem, gerade bei kleineren Organisationen: Neuer Vorstand, neue Webseite ...).

studierendenwissen.de
Ein noch relativ neues Projekt ist studierendenwissen.de. Dieses hat sich vor allem der Idee verschrieben, Wissen kostenlos zur Verfügung zu stellen (unter Nutzung von „Creative Commons"-Lizenzen). Noch finden sich relativ wenige Arbeiten dort - aber das kann sich ja ändern ...

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Informationsplattform Open Access: Informationen für verschiedene Fächer

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Hier finden Sie spezifische Informationen zu Open Access in verschiedenen Fächern. Expertinnen und Experten aus dem jeweiligen Fach haben hier Informationen z.B. über fachspezifische Repositorien, relevante Open-Access-Zeitschriften sowie allgemeine Informationen zur Verbreitung und Akzeptanz von Open Access im jeweiligen Fach zusammengestellt.

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The best infographic maker can help you present complex data in a simple yet striking visual form, turning masses of difficult info into clean visuals that make everything much easier to understand. Of course, you can create your own infographics from scratch, but that can be a mammoth undertaking. The best infographic makers make presenting data much easier, usually by offering a range of flexible, customisable templates.

We've picked out a list of what we consider to be the best infographic makers available at the moment based on our review of what they offer. We've included both free and paid tools and both specific infographic tools and broader design software. Many are of them are aimed at beginners, but even these are often hugely capable tools and worth checking out. We've evaluated them according to their easy of use, flexibility and customisation options and value, pointing out the pros and cons of each and suggest what they're each best for.

If you need some inspiration, just take a look at our collection of the best infographics. And if you do fancy creating your own infographic from scratch, take a look at our guide on how to download Photoshop, which is a good option for digital image creation.

The best infographic makers available now

If you need to make infographics quickly and easily for social media, Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) is one of the best tools around. It has over 10,000 templates to choose from and thousands of free license-free assets to smarten up your design. There's a basic free plan, but as our Creative Cloud Express review explains, you'll need a subscription to unlock all the many features available.

Creative Cloud Express can do a lot more than design just infographics, but it's the best tool that we've found for that purpose for social. It uses a drag-and-drop editor which is super simple to use. Search through the templates to get the one you want, and then start editing. You can add your own background, change the text, add an image, introduce an icon and include your own logo (if you have one). When done, the infographic maker lets you resize for your favourite social platform with a single click, then download (we recommend saving in cloud storage). Sit back and watch your infographic go viral. Get Adobe Creative Cloud (opens in new tab) now for Adobe's full suite of design apps.

Canva is a powerful and easy-to-use online design tool that's suitable for all manner of creative tasks, from brochures to presentations and much more besides. It also offers users a vast library of images, icons, fonts and features to choose from.

It features a dedicated free infographic maker with hundreds of free design elements and fonts at your fingertips. There are many more premium elements that you can buy for $1. When we reviewed it, we found Canva benefited from being simple to use for all kinds of design work, including infographic creation. At the same time, it offers a good level of customisation for such an accessible tool.

See our full Canva review for more details.

Venngage (opens in new tab) is one of the most popular picks for those looking for a dedicated tool for making infographics. Our first two picks as the best infographic makers can be used for all kinds of design, whereas Venngage was created specifically infographics in mind (although it covers diagrams and reports and other such pieces too). Thanks to this specialisation it offers a vast number of creative templates for the purpose (more than 7,500, in fact).

It's super-easy to use thanks to a handy image search feature, which makes finding and adding images to your infographics a breeze. Though there's a massive range of features available, including font upload and the ability to export in Powerpoint and even interactive PDF, many of these are only available as part of a Business account (there's a big jump between what you get from a Premium account and the Business plan). However, there is also a fairly decent Free plan, and the Premium subscription gets you everything you need to create attractive infographics with a highly professional feel.

The highly rated graphics tool Snappa (opens in new tab) is another one that we found super-easy to use, with pre-made templates galore and a library packed full of high-res images - over 4,000,000 to be exact. It lets you remove image backgrounds with a single click and has a range of text effects and graphics to drop in. You can even share to social direct from the program. There's a free plan (you can have one user, 6,000 templates and three downloads a month), and paid-for options from $10 per month offering more features.

If you're after an entry-level infographic maker, Piktochart (opens in new tab) takes out the legwork of designing an infographic by supplying you with easy to customise templates. Once you've uploaded your stats, you can tweak the layout and colour scheme. Given that infographics are an art form in and of themselves, and one that can be overwhelming at first, Piktochart is a great way to get to grips with the medium. There are various pricing options, including a free account that allows you to make up to five visuals, although you'll have to pay to get rid of the Piktochart watermark.

DesignCap (opens in new tab) is a free infographic maker that's simple to use and has a good range of templates - although you'll have to pay for some of the nicer ones. It also offers icons, illustrations and stock imagery, and the ability to upload your own should you want to. The free plan allows you up to five jpg exports, and you can upgrade to a basic plan ($4.99 p/mo) to get unlimited templates and high-res png and pdf exports.

MURAL is designed for teams as a tool for project management, but it can also be used to create infographics. It allows colleagues to ideate with imagery and collaborate more efficiently, and looks great too. MURAL (opens in new tab) allows users to express ideas with smart inking on the Windows app, draw freely for a full whiteboard experience and share sticky note feedback with team members so everybody is kept in the loop with the progress of a project.

If your team needs to collaborate and share data in a visual way, MURAL could be the infographic maker for you. Pricing starts at $12 per month. There's a free trial.

Visme (opens in new tab) promises to help you 'speak visually'. You can use it to build presentations, but it's especially geared towards creating engaging infographics. This infographic maker includes over 100 fonts (for more, see our list of free fonts), millions of free images and thousands of quality icons, and there are options to include video and audio (including the ability to record a voiceover directly in the editor, which is handy). You can also animate your content to make things clearer.

What sets this tool apart from the rest on this list is that Visme allows users to whip up an infographic in a few minutes, thanks to a library of pre-made assets that can be easily dragged and dropped into place. This allows even non-designers to display their data visually. Visme also gives users the ability to create interactive and animated infographics, making their stats and figures sing like never before. Pricing starts from $15 a month, but there's a free version that can serve to get a feel for the software.

Fancy something a little different? Biteable (opens in new tab) gives users the chance to create high-quality video infographics that can be shared on social media. As well as providing engaging image assets for creatives to work with, Biteable also offers soundtracks to really make your creations sing.

With plenty of designs and pre-made scenes at its disposal, this app removes the barrier to entry that so often stops people from using videos to their full effect. There's a range of plans available, the free plan enables you to make and share up to 10 video projects with the Biteable watermark. Paid plans start at $19 per month.

Google's chart tools are powerful, simple to use - and in this case its a completely free infographic maker tool. You can choose from a variety of charts and configure an extensive set of options to perfectly match the look and feel of your website. By connecting your data in real time, Google Charts (opens in new tab) is a straightforward infographic maker for your website.

Infogram (opens in new tab) is a great tool with a wide variety of graphs, charts and maps as well as the ability to upload pictures and videos to create cool infographics. You enter and edit the data that makes up the infographic in an Excel-style tool, the contents of which are reflected in your design. The software will automatically change the look of the infographic to perfectly represent your data, too.

When you're happy with your infographic, you can publish it to the Infogram website for all to enjoy, embed it into your own website, or share it via social media. The basic version (up to 10 projects and 13 maps types) is free, while paid versions start from $19 per month.

Mind the Graph (opens in new tab) specialises in scientific infographics, but its tools can be used to create illustrations to complement most forms of data outside of scientific papers. The online infographic maker provides various infographic layouts that can be used straight out of the box to design many types of visual illustrations.

Mind the Graph provides thousands of icons that are useful for non-scientific purposes as well as for livening up a wordy journal paper, and you can take advantage of its built-in image editor and online updater to make changes on the fly. There's a free version suitable for trying out the software. The paid versions start as low as $5 for the Junior version aimed at undergraduate students and occasional users.

For a map-based free infographic maker, look no further than Kartograph (opens in new tab). Kartograph is a free design tool that makes illustrative and interactive maps, created for the needs of designers and data journalists. The application doesn't require Google Maps or any other mapping service, making it a simple and lightweight framework - and there are a variety of map types to suit your needs.

It has Python and JavaScript-based tools to create the required maps. The Python library generates beautiful and compact SVG maps; while the JS library helps you to create interactive maps that run across all major browsers.

Web-based infographic maker Easel.ly (opens in new tab) offers you a range of templates to start you off, all of which are easily customisable (with limitations). You get access to a library of things like arrows, shapes and connector lines, and you can customise the text with different fonts, colours, text styles and sizes. The tool also lets you upload your own graphics and position them with one touch.

The free option includes 60 images and 10 fonts, or for $4 a month you get a much wider pool of resources, plus boosted security options and - if you need it - design help.

Adioma (opens in new tab) offers users a range of generative templates: you pick a basic template (such as timeline, grid, or cycle), then the infographics build themselves around the text you supply, and adjust as you add or remove information. That means you don't have to spend time adjusting and realigning your infographic. There's also a template-switching feature that enables you to compare how the same data would look in different formats.

This infographic maker includes a range of templates, but what sets it apart is its large library of icons (you can also upload your own). The more expensive options include an expanded resource library, improved download options and the ability to upload more of your own content. It's free to try for one week. It is rather pricey, starting at $39 per month.

PicMonkey (opens in new tab) is an online image editor with a section dedicated to designing infographics. Choose from the selection of templates, and customise the content with PicMonkey's library or by uploading your own images. There's also a selection of tutorials to help you out, focusing on things like how to design an infographic tailored to sharing on social media, and how to use grid theory to create a polished design. Pricing starts at $7.99 per month. There's a seven-day free trial available.
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Infographics Group Board - News by Design

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We love #infographics, #datavis and #maps. It's news, but visual. So we want to share the best in this group board - and steal some of them to write about on News by Design. We do moderate for poor quality, spam and repeat posts, so don't be offended if a pin disappears!

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Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Master Digitale Medientechnologien - Schwerpunkt Experimentelle Medien / FH St. Pölten. Ein wichtiges Ziel des Masterstudiums ist es, den Studierenden professionelles, wissenschaftliches Arbeiten näher zu bringen. Das Verständnis für Wissenschaft und die zu Verfügung stehenden Methoden muss über das ganze Studium aufgebaut werden. 

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Nathalie Dürnberger DM13

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Fabian Orner DM14

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Jakob Wallner DM14

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Nikolaus Giffinger DM14

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Danielle Borowsky DM14

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Alexander Schlager DM14

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Thomas Poecksteiner DM14

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Peter Jablonowski DM14

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Jasmin Öztürk