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These are some links that I think of important and useful for doing research, learning skills and so on.
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People
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Writing
linggle. Language Reference Search Engines.
Grammarly for Chrome: Free Online Writing Assistant.
Database
Web of Science. Web of Science Core Collection A trusted, high-quality collection of journals, books and conference proceedings.
Scopus. The world's largest bibliographic database.
ResearchGate, is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.
ORCID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Publons. The home of expert peer review. Reviewer recognition, training, post-publication review and statistics.
MathSciNet, is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the American Mathematical Society in 1996.
ProQuest. ProQuest full-text database is currently the only database in the world that provides high-quality foreign full-text articles.
zbMATH, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major international reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics.
English Version   Simplified Chinese Version. Note: download PDF.
Mathematic
Mathscinet, is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the American Mathematical Society.
MSC2020. MSC2020-Mathematical Sciences Classification System.
arXiv, is a repository of electronic preprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not full peer review.
arxiv sanity preserver. Web interface for browsing, search and filtering recent arxiv submissions
Optimization Online, is a repository of e-prints about optimization and related topics.
Academic skills
Love Science,Love Sci-Hub!. This page is to collect the new alternative domain of sci-hub which is refreshed every 5 minutes.
Library Genesis, is a search engine for articles and books on various topics, which allows free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere.
booksc1   booksc2. The world's largest scientific articles store. 70,000,000+ articles for free.
Google Mirror   scmor. Provide available Google search and Google mirror sites.
paperswithcode. Papers With Code highlights trending ML research and the code to implement it.
HistCite   CitNetExplorer. Great literature analysis tools.
Grammarly for Chrome. Grammarly is a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback.
80 Library. It provides some free trial accounts, such as WOS, SpringerLink, Cnki.
LaTeX
ctan. The Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN) is the central place for all kinds of material around TEX.
latexstudio, this is a very good chinese website of many LaTeX resources, including templates, tutorials and so on.
Overleaf. An online LaTeX editor that's easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.
TeXdoc Online. TeX and LaTeX documentation lookup system. lshort-zh-cn
lvjr. A chinese website of learn LaTeX.
TeX equation editor1   TeX equation editor2. Great Tex mathematical formulas online editing sites.
Mathcha-Online Math Editor. Online WYSIWYG Mathematics Editor (Equation Editor).
Math. MyScript Handwriting Recognition. Hand write mathematical formulas and convert them to corresponding LaTeX codes.
LaTeX Tables Generator. Quickly create even complex LaTeX tables online with our generator.
detexify. Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition.
Beamer Theme Matrix. This theme matrix shows examples of all variations of the Beamer LaTeX package's default themes and color themes.
wiki-LaTeX. This is a guide to the LaTeX typesetting system. It is intended as a useful resource for everybody, from new users who wish to learn, to old hands who need a quick reference.
lshort-chinese. The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX (Chinese Edition). lshort-english   latex-introduction
latex-notes-details   latex-notes-zhihu. Highly recommended.
UESTCthesis, is the official LaTeX template for the graduation thesis of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Programming
MATLAB Help Center. Search the help documentation for MATLAB functions.
PyCharm. The Python IDE for professional developers.
jemdoc, is a static site generator that is being widely used for creating simple academic websites. Using jemdoc
MathJax. A JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers.
jemdoc+MathJax, let jemdoc support MathJax.
matplotlib, is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.
Anaconda, is the standard platform for Python data science.
Excel2LaTeX. The Excel add-in for creating LaTeX tables.
tikzplotlib. Convert matplotlib figures to TikZ/PGFplots for smooth integration into LaTeX.
matlab2tikz. This program converts MATLAB figures to TikZ/pgfplots figures for smooth integration into LaTeX.
PlotPub. Publication quality plot in MATLAB.
tikzcd-editor. A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams. try it out here.
MATLABTips. MATLAB study notes.
Softwares
Chrome. Google Chrome is a fast, free web browser. Tampermonkey
Texlive, is an easy (we hope) way to get up and running with the TeX document production system.
TeXstudio. LaTeX editor.
TikzEdt, is a combined WYSIWYG/text editor designed for editing Tikz code.
Adobe Acrobat DC. Use Acrobat to convert, edit and sign PDF files.
Sumatrapdf, is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.
Mathpix. Extract LaTeX from PDFs or handwritten notes in seconds just by taking a screenshot.
Notepad++, is a free source code editor.   EditPlus: It can batch convert HTML encoding.
Typora. A minimal markdown editor.
GitHub Desktop. Simplifies your development workflow. Tutorial1   Tutorial2   All about Git
PicGo. A simple & beautiful tool for pictures uploading built by vue-cli-electron-builder.
Bandizip. Free zip, 7z, unzip, unrar Archiver.
Teamviewer. The Remote Desktop Software.
MATLAB, is the easiest and most productive software environment for engineers and scientists.
Microsoft Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
huorong. Block ads, clean up trash, and more.
Listary. File Search & App Launcher.
Pandoc. A universal document converter. Try pandoc!
Computer skills
Font Awesome. The complete set of 675 icons in Font Awesome 4.7.0.
Download Chrome. The installation package here is from the official Google without update module.
zhitu   tiomg   picdiet   tinypng   imagecompressor  gaitubao. Some website for image processing.
Jpeg Compressor. It allows you to resize and optimize bulk images including GIFs, JPEG, PNG, JPG, SVG, and WEBP.
removebg. Remove Image Background, 100% Automatically and Free.
BrandCrowd. Make a beautiful logo in seconds.
luochenzhimu   dayanzai. Chinese website for downloading software.
MicroKMS. A tool for activating Windows and office.
ZhiMap. A Chinese website for mind maps that can insert mathematical formulas.
xzc. Used to collect files from multiple people, and the files will be saved in your network disk.
smallpdf. All-in-one easy-to-use online PDF tools.
IguanaTex. A Free LaTeX Add-In for PowerPoint on Windows.
E-Mail Icon Generator. For GMail, Hotmail, and many more! Chinese version
Useful websites
Quora, is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers.   example
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