Internet offers the possibility of accessing multiple information resources. We share a series of tools that we think may be of interest for the development of your studies in the degrees of Sociology and Communication Sciences. Under this heading you will find useful resources for research, the organization and writing of academic papers and to face entry into the labor market:

-Official bulletins

• BOP:Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de A Coruña  (Official bulletin of the province of A Coruña)
• DOG: Diario Oficial de Galicia (Official bulletin of Galicia)
• BOE: Boletín Oficial del Estado (State ofiicial bulletin)
• Official Journal of the European Union

-Search engines

• Google Scholar: academic article search engine
• Ciencia.science.gov
• WorlWideScience

 -Library catalogs

They allow access to funds from other institutions

Catalogs of other Galician universities	Universidad de Santiago de Compostela   Universidad de Vigo
Catalogs of Spanish universities	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Other national catalogs	Biblioteca Nacional de España  (National Library of Spain) Rebiun: collective catalog of Spanish libraries

Catalogs of foreign institutions

BNF (National Library of France) BNP (National Library of Portugal) British Library Library of Congress The European Library: allows access to the catalogs of the European National Libraries

-Search tools, editing and presentation of texts

• Audacity: free of charge software that allows the recording and edition of sounds
• BX Hot-Articles: free of charge app that allows us to access the TOP-TEN from the academic articles in the areas of science, business, law, medicine, nursing, psychology, social sciences and all the most relevant academic fields.
• Delicious: social bookmarking management service (favorites) on the Internet
• Dropbox: free of charge hosting service for photos, documents, videos and other files that can be accessed from any device.
• GIMP: free and free of charge software for editing digital images in the form of a bitmap, both drawings and photographs .
• Google Drive: free of charge platform (has payment options) of file storage in the cloud and collaborative work of Google, allows to share and edit files from any device.
• Google Forms: allows the collection of user information through a personalized survey, the information is collected and automatically connected to a spreadsheet covered with the survey responses.
• LibX: application that allows access to the resources of any bibliographic catalog -in this case of the BUDC catalog- from a search bar installed directly in the browser, as long as it is Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome .
• Normas APA: in social sciences is the most recognized standard for the transmission of scientific and academic knowledge
• Slideshare: online community to share and upload presentations .
• Prezi: presentation preparation tool.
• Wordpress: content management system for the construction of websites, in particular blogs .

-Portals and platforms

• EdX: platform in English of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), founded by MIT and Harvard University
• CSIC: is the largest Spanish public research institution whose fundamental objective is to develop and promote research for the benefit of scientific and technological progress.
• INEBase: portal that stores all the statistical information that the INE produces in electronic format.
• ClassGap: platform that puts in contact students interested in a subject with professors experts in this subject.
• Coursera: free od charge platform of online courses
• Miriada: platform of Massive Online Open Courses of pedagogy, psychology, humanities, geography, ethics ...
• Recolecta (Open Science Collector): platform that groups all the national scientific repositories and provides services to the repository managers, researchers and agents involved in the development of policies..
• SHERPA ROMEO: portal that collects copyright policies of publishers and self-archives of international journals.
• DULCINEA: portal that collects the copyright and self-archive conditions of Spanish scientific journals.

 -Professional social networks

• LinkedIn: social network oriented to commercial and professional relationships.

 -Repositories 

Library repositories

Minerva: repository of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Investigo: repository of Universidad de Vigo E-PrintsUCM, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Gredos: repository of Universidad de Salamanca

Other repositories

La Referencia: Latin American network of open access repositories that share and give visibility to scientific production generated in higher education institutions and scientific research. SocArxiv: repository of open access documents in the social sciences Digital Library of MIT Theses Doctoral thesis in network of universities of Cataluña Oaister: repository of digital content from around the world in open access European Patent Office: European patent repository RECYT: Spanish repository of science and technology

-Translators

• Foreignword.com: Including DictSearch (with more than 230 online dictionaries); LinkSearch (searches in more than 1000 links to glossaries); Translate Now! (provides access to 28 different systems of automatic translation in network); and NetSearch (searches the term or terms on Internet pages that deal with a specific topic).
• IATE (Inter-active Terminology for Europe):  terminology, interinstitutional, interactive and multilingual database of the European Union, has been used since the summer of 2004 for the collection, management and joint dissemination of the terminology used in the texts of the European institutions.
• OpenTrad: translator of documents and texts made in open source and organized among several institutions.
• OrtoGal: Galician online spell checker
• SpanishDict: English Spanish Translator
  Tradutor Autómatico Gaio da Xunta de Galicia: automatic translation system that allows you to translate texts, documents and web pages.

 -Reference managers