My Favorite Tools, Part 1

This year at MLA, the Educational Media and Technology Section hosted a special content session called My Favorite Tool.  Eighteen participants had 3 minutes to describe their chosen tool and its features for a chance to win a prize!

MLA’s Favorite Tools (in order of presentation)

MDPhD

• Free; additional pricing levels
• MDPhD uses AI to turn articles into summaries with key insights and data visualization, sorted by level of evidence.

Jupyter Notebook

• Free
• Jupyter Notebooks is an open source web application that allows the weaving together of code, interactive graphical outputs, and narrative text. See examples here.

PollEverywhere

• Free (up to 25 responses); additional pricing levels
• Engage your audience with live polls and immediate display of results, no clickers needed.

Slack

• Free; additional pricing levels
• Create a channel within Slack’s virtual online community to bring all your team’s project communication and files together in a private searchable archive.

PubReminer

• Free
• Enter a Pubmed search or PMID to analyze articles by Author, Journal, Keyword, MeSH, and more using this text mining tool.

Browzine

• Cost
• Browse open source or subscription journals by subject or search via title, save journals to a bookshelf or save articles to your reading list.

OneTab

• Free
• Speed up your browser by consolidating your dozens (or hundreds??) of open tabs into a saved list.

OpenBroadcaster

• Free
• Create your own video recordings or stream live with this simple, yet high-quality software.

Workflowy

• Free
• Expand, collapse, and tag your to-do list, outlines, or other bulleted documents to add organization to your workflow.

Boopsie

• Cost
• Boopsie pulls together the key functions of your library website into one mobile app. Check out ATSU Library’s Clinical App here. 

But wait!  This is only half the tools!  Check out My Favorite Tools, Part 2 for more tech tools!