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Paperlib

An open-source reference manager.

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Introduction

Paperlib is an open source reference manager designed to improve your citing experience by addressing some of the common painpoints found in other software, in particular Zotero and Mendely.

Main Features

• Rich variety of scrapers to collect metadata for several disciplines
• Fulltext and advanced search.
• Rating, flag, tag, folder and markdown/plain text note.
• RSS feed subscription to follow the newest publications on your research topic.
• Locate and download PDF files from the web.
• macOS and MS Word Plug-ins for inserting citations
• Cloud sync
• Supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
• Beautiful and clean UI.

Scrapers

Currently, Paperlib uses the following scrapers (more to come):

• General

  • arXiv
  • doi.org
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Crossref
  • Google Scholar
  • Springer
  • Elseivier Scopus

• Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

  • openreview.net
  • IEEE
  • DBLP
  • Paper with Code (scrape available in the code repository)

• Earth Science

• Physics

  • NASA Astrophysics Data System
  • SPIE: Inte. Society for Optics and Photonics

• Chemistry

  • ChemRxiv

• Biology

  • BioRxiv / MedRxiv

About this project

Conference papers are a big part of computer science research. Without DOI, ISBN, metadata of a lot of conference papers are hard to look up (e.g., NIPS, ICLR etc.). When I cite a publication in a draft paper, I need to manually search the publication information of it in Google Scholar or DBLP over and over again.

Why not Zotero or Mendely?

• The scraping capabilities of these tools are limited to what's on the page.

• Outdated UI and bloated features

• Expensive licenses

Download and Install

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Windows

⚠️ You may notice that a warning shows when you install Paperlib on Windows. The reason is that there is no code signing in Paperlib because it is so expensive. The source code of Paperlib can be found in the electron branch. It won't hurt your PC and will never collect any personal information. Please make sure you are using HTTPS and our official webpage or Github to download the installer. When you install latest.exe, in the "Windows protected your PC" window, please click More info and Run anyway.

macOS

⚠️ You may need to click the preference - Security & Privacy - run anyway.

Linux

See here.

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If you are interested in contributing, please contact @GeoffreyChen777

Metadata Scrapers

My research topic is computer vision, which is only one piece of the puzzle of computer science. I tried to contact some friends to provide information about the paper metadata database in different disciplines. However, However, it does not cover all disciplines. If the builtin metadata scrapers are not suitable for your research, feel free to open an issue or a pull request.

Feature Requests

For feature requests please create an issue

License

GPL-3.0 License