Tools and Resources

The following are various resources and tools that I found useful for various purposes.

Reading Paywalled Content:
Whenever you come across a web page (such as news articles and blogs) which are placed behind a paywall, the following tools can be useful in accessing an unpaywalled copy of the content.
- Paywall Reader: https://paywallreader.com
- Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org
- Library Genesis: https://libgen.rs
- PDF Drive: https://www.pdfdrive.com
Alternative Web Search Engines:
Avoiding Big-Tech, these search engines can be used to search the web in a privacy preserving manner.
- DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com
- Brave Search: https://search.brave.com
- Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com
- Stract: https://stract.com
- SearXNG: https://searxng.online (all instances: https://searx.space)
Literature Survey Tools:
The following tools are useful in conducting literature surveys.
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org
- Scholar in Internet Archive: https://scholar.archive.org
- Trending Papers: https://trendingpapers.com
- Connected Papers: https://www.connectedpapers.com
- arXiv: https://arxiv.org
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net
- Publish or Perish: https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish
- NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com
- DeepSeek: https://chat.deepseek.com
- NaturalReaders: https://www.naturalreaders.com/online

Peer-review Process:
- How to write a peer review (from PLOS): https://plos.org/resource/how-to-write-a-peer-review

Finding Journals and Conferences:
- Scopus Indexed Journal List: https://www.scopus.com/sources
- Web of Science Indexed Journal List: https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): https://doaj.org
- Elsevier Journal Finder: https://journalfinder.elsevier.com
- IEEE Publication Recommender: https://publication-recommender.ieee.org/home
Journals:
- Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation (FSI:DI): https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/forensic-science-international-digital-investigation
- Elsevier Computers & Security: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-security
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tifs
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tops
- IEEE Access: https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org
Conferences:
- DFRWS (USA/EU/APAC): https://dfrws.org
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P): https://www.ieee-security.org
- ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Conference: https://dl.acm.org/conference/ccs
- The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES): https://www.ares-conference.eu
- USENIX Security Symposium: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24
- International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C): https://icdf2c.eai-conferences.org
- International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF): https://www.ares-conference.eu/wsdf

Fun:
- Spurious Scholar: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-scholar
- Scholar Goggler: https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholargoggler7
- PHD Comics: https://phdcomics.com
- ErrantScience: https://errantscience.com