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)
- Free; additional pricing levels
- MDPhD uses AI to turn articles into summaries with key insights and data visualization, sorted by level of evidence.
- 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.
- Free (up to 25 responses); additional pricing levels
- Engage your audience with live polls and immediate display of results, no clickers needed.
- 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.
- Free
- Enter a Pubmed search or PMID to analyze articles by Author, Journal, Keyword, MeSH, and more using this text mining tool.
- 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.
- Free
- Speed up your browser by consolidating your dozens (or hundreds??) of open tabs into a saved list.
- Free
- Create your own video recordings or stream live with this simple, yet high-quality software.
- Free
- Expand, collapse, and tag your to-do list, outlines, or other bulleted documents to add organization to your workflow.
- Cost
- Boopsie pulls together the key functions of your library website into one mobile app. Check out ATSU Library’s Clinical App here.