If you’re in the academic world or need to manage loads of research for your ongoing projects, you probably depend on the Internet to keep it all straight and connect you to libraries and information you wouldn’t otherwise be able to find. But what if there was a way to get it all done even faster? These bookmarklets can help.

Social Media and Blogging

Post, tag, update your Twitter account, and share sites faster with these bookmarklets.

Google

Navigate Google with more mastery when you use these tools.

Calculators and Conversions

For calculations and conversions, use these bookmarklets for fast math.

Firefox calculator: Firefox users can do basic calculations with this tool. Days left this year: Instantly find out how many days are left in the year. Average: Calculate the average of a sequence of numbers. Salary calculator: This nifty tool calculates a salary based on wage per hour and number of hours worked. Temperature: Convert Farenheit to Celsius or vice versa. Weight: Convert U.S. measurements to metric. Scientific calculator: Instantly gain access to a scientific calculator here.

Bookmarking and Saving

Manage all of your school work, saved sites, favorite research spots and bookmarks online here.

del.icio.us linkbacks: Find out a page’s del.icio.us history and del.icio.us reviews. + later: Save a web page for later using this tool. Password Saver: This bookmarklet makes your browser remember login information for different sites. Convert Me: Here you can convert YouTube videos to other formats. Uses Zamzar. Send Selected Text: Internet Explorer users can select text from a web page, click on this bookmarklet, and a new Outlook Express message body will open. Take Screenshot: Capture a screenshot of any web page with one click. Furl: Access Furl faster. Duplicate Page: Create a copy of your current page as an alternative to saving it. Bzzster: Share and save pages with Bzzster. Shareaholic: Share your current web page on Digg, del.icio.us, FriendFeed, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader, Magnolia, Twitter, and more.

Productivity and Short Cuts

These short cuts will help you keep all of your work and school research organized as you finish your degree program without slowing you down.

People and Communication

Find people and communicate with your references and collaborators with these bookmarklets.

Search

Use these bookmarklets for a faster, more streamlined search.

Customization

Customize your web experience to make researching even more enjoyable and organized.

TinyURL: Shorten URLs for Twitter and other uses with this tool. Mobilize Me: Mobile users can reformat web pages using this tool. Display Images: View all the images on a web page in a centered column. Center window: Keep all your windows at the center of your screen. Hide all images: Hide images on a web page. Resize window: Here you can resize a window to an exact width and height. Zoom: These bookmarklets let you zoom pages and/or images in and out. View cookies: View a page’s cookies here. Resize fonts: Change the size of a page’s fonts. Google Toolbar: This toolbar lets you search Google from any page you’re visiting, find out what pages are related, and more.

Reference

Look up words, translations, locations and more when you use these bookmarklets.

Miscellaneous

This collection of bookmarklets can help you find recipes, keep track of your passwords and more.

View passwords: See what you’re typing into a password box instead of ****. Find a Recipe: Look for a specific recipe here. Page freshness: Verify when a page was last updated. Date and Time: Quickly check the date and time. Backdrop: This tool blacks out the windows you aren’t looking at. IP Address: This bookmarklet will tell you your current IP address.