With the last update, we added projects to scienceOS – workspaces that help you group sources from your library and chats in one place. With the Ostrom Update, you can now create shared projects and invite collaborators to view and discuss sources from your library. This makes it easier to build knowledge together in a trusted environment. Whether you are mentoring students, coordinating with co-authors, or exploring a new topic with peers, shared projects keep everyone on the same page.
You can also be invited to join shared projects created by your colleagues, giving you access to their AI reference manager. As your chats will remain private, this update supports open collaboration while maintaining individual control. It is especially helpful when joining a new collaboration, getting up to speed on a topic, or contributing to a paper with confidence in the materials provided.
Create a shared project
Create a project and add relevant sources to it. Then, click “Share” to generate an invitation link.
(Creating shared projects is for free.)
Join a shared project
Ask for an invitation to a colleague‘s project to check their sources and chat with them.
(Joining a shared project is for free.)
Why Ostrom Update?
This update of scienceOS is dedicated to Elinor Ostrom, who made significant contributions to political science and economics through her study of how communities manage shared resources. Ostrom’s research on collective action, self-governance, and trust laid the foundation for understanding how collaboration can succeed without centralized control.
Join the pilot program of scienceOS for business.
We believe that the only way to build useful software for scientists is by engaging directly with the scientific community. Through conversations with researchers in academia and industry, we found that: while academic and industrial R&D share many challenges, companies often require tailored solutions.
In response, we have begun developing scienceOS for business – a flexible framework designed to adapt scienceOS to industrial research settings.
We are now inviting up to three companies to participate in our pilot program and help shape this new version. If your organization is interested, please email us at [email protected] with a short description of how you currently use scienceOS and what additional capabilities you would need to support your R&D.
Improvements and bug fixes.
We implemented adjustments to projects in scienceOS, gave the AI research agent additional capabilities, added a changelog, and fixed annoying bugs.
Improvements
- Brought back the “Start a collection chat”-button to the library
- Added a sidebar to projects to list all project sources
- Made deleting projects a two-step process
- Added a “try it online” function for code developed with scienceOS
- Allowed uploading PDFs from library directly to a chat
- Made the chat header translucent
- Gave the AI research Agent the option to write longer answers
- Gave the AI research Agent the option to answer questions about scienceOS
- Added a changelog to our website
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where the app sidebar would hang on mobile
- Fixed a bug where “recent uploads” would not show most recent uploads
- Fixed a bug where the AI Agent would use collection filters without reason
- Fixed a bug where custom project instructions were ignored
- Fixed a bug where the download button for diagrams was inaccessible
- Fixed a bug where users could not log in
- Fixed multiple bugs where scienceOS would become slow and crash