Technologies and Tools for Writing

Caltech provides students and employees with licensed access to various software and tools that may be relevant to academic writing and communication.

These currently include:

Document composition and viewing

• Adobe Acrobat (IMSS)
• Google Drive (IMSS)
• Microsoft Office (IMSS)
• Overleaf Pro (Caltech Library)

Literature search and citation management

• iThenticate (Caltech Library, not available to undergraduates)
• Keenious (Caltech Library)
• Zotero (Caltech Library)
• The Caltech Library subscribes to many research databases.

Visual communication

• BioRender (IMSS, reduced cost, not free)
• ChemDraw (IMSS)
• Wolfram Alpha (IMSS)

Electronic laboratory notebook

• LabArchives (IMSS)

Generative AI chatbot

• Microsoft Copilot (IMSS)

Additional software tools relevant to academic research are available through IMSS.

Last updated: 9/11/25