Today, TUAW posted an excellent list of research tools specifically for Mac users as part of their Back to School series, which provides tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers. Their extensive list of desktop tools that provide fast and intuitive means of navigating and collecting information begins with Pathway.

• Pathway creates “webs” of pages, allowing you to map your trail through the wiki’s articles. You start with a search, and the search result creates the center node of the map. Satellite links are created from the table of contents for the page, and following any of them creates a new node, linked to the originating page and with its own satellite links.

• The next tool introduced is Selenium, which combines a browser, a PDF manager (with annotation capabilities), an outliner, a Cocoa rich text editor, and bibliography manager.

• The final research tool presented by TUAW is DEVONagent. This tool is a “whiz” at scouring general and specialized online sources, providing intelligent summaries with multiple methods of viewing and navigation. You can see ranked keywords from the search results and a map, which shows how they relate.

Be sure to visit TUAW’s full article, which goes on to discuss tool for citing sources in a bibliography and in-text.