{"slug":"academic-writing","title":"Academic Writing","published":true,
 "description":"From literature search to a submitted manuscript: discovery engines, a reference manager, a TeX distribution and editor, reproducible-document tooling, converters for the Word-only journal, and the identifiers and repositories that make the output citable.",
 "items":[
  {"tool":"openalex","blurb":"Open scholarly graph with a free API; a good first stop for systematic searches."},
  {"tool":"semantic-scholar","blurb":"AI-assisted paper discovery, citation contexts and an API."},
  {"tool":"google-scholar","blurb":"Broad coverage and citation counts, with no API."},
  {"tool":"zotero","blurb":"Free reference manager with browser capture, PDF annotation and BibTeX/Better BibTeX export."},
  {"tool":"tex-live","blurb":"The full TeX distribution; the baseline for any LaTeX workflow."},
  {"tool":"overleaf","blurb":"Collaborative online LaTeX editing with track changes and journal templates."},
  {"tool":"biblatex","blurb":"Modern bibliography handling for LaTeX with Biber."},
  {"tool":"quarto","blurb":"Reproducible documents mixing prose with Python, R or Julia code; renders to PDF, HTML and Word."},
  {"tool":"pandoc","blurb":"The universal converter; turns LaTeX into Word when a journal insists."},
  {"tool":"typst","blurb":"A fast, modern typesetting system worth watching as an alternative to LaTeX."},
  {"tool":"ssrn","blurb":"Working-paper distribution in economics, finance and law."},
  {"tool":"arxiv","blurb":"Preprints for quantitative fields."},
  {"tool":"orcid","blurb":"A persistent researcher identifier required by most publishers."},
  {"tool":"zenodo","blurb":"DOIs for datasets, code and supplementary material."}
 ]}