Scholarcy Browser Extension: Speed Up Research Process
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Scholarcy™ is the solution to that pile of papers on your virtual desk. It can save up to 70% of the time needed to get the key information from an article, helping you with literature screening and reviews.
This Extension gives you the key points of any article or research paper you have open in your browser. It creates a referenced summary with important points highlighted and generates a background reading list for those new to a field.
Need to see how a paper builds on previous research? Our new 'Comparative Analysis' engine highlights this for you.
Subscribers to our premium app, Scholarcy Library, will get unlimited use of this Extension and can also save, share, annotate and export their Summary Flashcards.
Scholarcy locates open-access PDFs for each reference from Google Scholar, arXiv and elsewhere, and can also be configured to extract figures and tables.
To provide this service, our Extension needs to read and process the contents of the current web page. Alternatively, it will locate the PDF for the article. Use the new 'Source priority' option to switch between the HTML and PDF processing. For PDF files, the article must be open access. For more information on how we use this data, please read our FAQ: https://www.scholarcy.com/faq/ and Privacy Policy: https://www.scholarcy.com/privacy-policy/
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- Ease of use and multiple formats for summarization
- Effective in summarizing articles and providing key points
- Increases efficiency and helps with research
- Can be very useful for academic purposes, especially for students
- Connection issues, requiring page refresh to work
- Does not work well with articles behind paywalls or sign-in requirements
- Inconsistent performance, sometimes outputting irrelevant data or code
- Some users found it not as valuable for multi-article summaries
- Connection issues and server timeouts
- Ease of use and effectiveness in summarizing
- Problems with functionality on paywalled articles
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Scholarcy Browser Extension requires very minimum permissions.
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Scholarcy Browser Extension has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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