You are in the right place! Soon there will be a guide to the best academic papers to read but for the moment just browsing around this site should be useful. If you are in this Department you will find it very useful to try out the tools and experience their flexibility for yourself. The best way to begin is by running one of the demos with tkeden. These are in the directory /dcs/acad/wmb/public/demos and there is a README in that directory to help you.