Research Toolkit

An extension that helps to speedup the research process and maintains a list of interesting papers on the fly.
What is Research Toolkit?
Research Toolkit is a Chrome extension that helps researchers speed up their research process and maintain a list of useful resources. It allows users to add selected resource text, read out text from webpages, and search for relevant papers on IEEExplore. The extension uses the browser's local storage for persistence, ensuring access to the resource list even after browser restarts.

Extension stats

Users: 28 ▲ 6
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2020-10-04)
Creation date: 2020-10-04
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • notifications
  • contextMenus
  • tts
Size: 957.44K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This research toolkit will help researchers to maintain a list of useful resources that they may access later on for further study. Items can be added to the list directly or through the right-click context menu. It currently performs three operations, i) Add selected resource text to the list through popup input field or right-click. ii) Read out any text from a webpage iii) Search any keyword(s) for relevant papers on IEEExplore through just a right click.

For persistence it uses the browser's local storage so that the user can access his/her resource list after restarting the browser. It has script for Ajax script to communicate data with the server are currently disabled as there isn't any server to respond.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Research Toolkit requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Research Toolkit has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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