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About ReadCube Papers
ReadCube Papers is a literature management tool for finding, reading, organizing and citing scientific papers. You can highlight, underline, draw and add notes on PDFs, sort libraries with tags, custom fields and Smart Lists, and import references with full metadata.
It draws on the Dimensions research database for discovery and includes an AI assistant that answers questions from your library with linked citations and can compare up to 20 papers at once. Literature monitoring and review features are aimed at research teams and companies.
Strengths
- PDF annotation combined with reference management
- Imports papers with full metadata and citations
- AI answers linked to the exact source passage
Limitations
- Paid after the trial
- Much of the product is aimed at companies and research teams
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid product with a free trial.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- ReadCube
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- Researchers managing and annotating a large library of papers
- Categories
- PDF tools, Learning tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to ReadCube Papers
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Mendeley
A reference manager from Elsevier for collecting, annotating and citing research papers.
Mendeley combines PDF annotation with citation generation and offers a free tier with 2 GB of library storage, but it is owned by the publisher Elsevier.
ReadCube Papers as an alternative
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LiquidText
An active-reading app for annotating PDFs and pulling excerpts into a flexible workspace.
ReadCube Papers combines PDF annotation with reference management and AI answers linked to sources, as a paid web service.
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