Open-Source Tools to Power Your Research

This session briefly showcases a variety of tools that support researchers across disciplines and the research lifecycle, including an overview of the benefits of using open-source software and FAIR data practices. Tools that we’ll touch on include: Zotero for citation management, Collection Builder for digital archives, Ollama for local LLM runs, Knight Lab Tools for digital storytelling, QGIS for geospatial analysis, QualCoder for qualitative data analysis, and RawGraphs for data visualization. Because this is not a hands-on training, we encourage you to reach out to us afterwards or join CRDDS consultation hours for in-depth support .