The Bates Update introduces a new way to interact with research papers in scienceOS: ‘Library Chat‘. By activating the ‘library’ mode in the Assistant or in the Search, you can now restrict scienceOS to answer all questions based on the papers in your library.
Further, in the Assistant, you can activate and deactivate the ‘library’ mode during the same session. You may use this to find papers that support or criticize answers based on your library. Vice versa, you may quickly check an answer from all research papers with the help of the papers in your library.
Answers from your library
Activate ‘library’ to get answers based on the papers in your library. For example, you may write a talk abstract in 30s.
(Chatting with abstracts from your library is for free.)
Find supportive papers
Switch ‘library’ mode on and off to find research which supports the findings of the papers in your library in less than 1min.
(Chatting with abstracts from your library is for free.)
Why Bates Update?
This update of scienceOS is dedicated to Marcia J Bates, who is known for the development of the berrypicking model. Bates’ research into information search tactics made significant contributions to cognitive models of information retrieval.
Bulk upload and library changes.
The library chat requires you to import some research papers to your library. We added a simple way to upload up to 1000 papers to your scienceOS library. Use the import function in ‘My library’ to upload a BibTex or RIS export file from your reference manager or paste a list of DOIs into the import table.
Further, we split the old library into two parts: ‘My library’ and ‘Starred’. Sources will now be added to ‘My library’ by clicking the bookmark icon, and answers will be added to ‘Starred’ by clicking the star icon. Store research papers in your library to interact with them through the library chat, and save answers to your starred folder to come back to them at a later time.
Improvements and bug fixes.
We added new features to the scienceOS library, improved the power and speed of the search algorithm, and fixed a Windows 7/8 bug for Chrome users.
Improvements
- Added 4 Mio new research papers to scienceOS
- Increased the context window of scienceOS
- Increased the maximum input length in the Assistant
Bug fixes
- Fixed bugs related to wrong source formatting