OpenRead Academy Review – Features, Pros and Cons!

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Writing literature reviews, reading different academic papers, and researching on the internet is quite overwhelming for students, researchers, and educators. You start feeling yourself drowning in the sea of information, getting frustrated in the process.

Fortunately, there are a few AI academic platforms, helping all of us in speeding up the research papers writing process. One of the standout academic platforms is OpenRead Academy. Let's discuss this AI platform in detail in this blog.

What is OpenRead Academy?

OpenRead Academy is a cutting-edge platform enabling learners to enhance their academic research process. Its AI technology helps learners and educators pinpoint relevant studies and read the papers efficiently. It cut the reading time of academic papers in half through its advanced features.

This platform has a unique AI personalized assistant, Oat, that provides summaries, answers to questions, fact-checking, and tracking user interactions. You can chat with it just like you chat with ChatGPT or Gemini. 

Moreover, this platform’s advanced AI technology provides relevant sources, academic papers, and web sources on our desired topic. Its integration with real-time data ensures researchers have access to the most current information.

Due to its unique features, this tool is famous among students and educators of the University of Columbia, Stanford University, Harvard University, The London School, and many more.

How OpenRead Academy Works?

First of all, you have to go to the website and sign up there. It is free to use so you don't need to pay any subscription fee. Another good thing about this platform is it is mobile responsive, allowing you to use it on the mobile.

After signing up, you can explore topics in three different ways: writing the name of the specific research title in the search bar, exploring trending articles in your field, and uploading the PDF document from your device to interact with it.

When you click on any trending article or topic, Oat will provide a brief summary along with relevant sources listed beneath it. You can scroll through the list of sources and click on any of them to read it thoroughly. The AI platform allows you to switch from academic paper suggestions to websites if you want.

Similarly, if you search for a research article title, OpenRead will provide you with a brief summary along with a list of relevant research articles. These articles include metadata beneath them, including date of publication, author name, categories, and other information.

If you click any, OpenRead gives you different options to interact with that document. One feature is to get access to basic information, including the website link of that research paper. This link will help you download the full research paper on your device.

Along with it, the platform provides you with various options such as page espresso, notes, related paper graphs, requesting paper, and much more.

Features of Open Read Academy

Up-to-date Publication Data

OpenRead is integrated with a web browser, updating its dataset after every five minutes. So, you can access over 300 million research papers and trillions of web sources on this platform. They cover more than 1000 research disciplines, covering almost every topic. It has publications from over 20,000 journals, ensuring accuracy and rigor.

However, you will not find books or conference paper suggestions on this tool. Moreover, you can't directly access the full texts or abstracts on the platform itself. You only get the links to the websites on this platform to access the full texts.

Papers Summarization

Papers Summarization, or Papers Espresso, option helps you in summarizing every heading of your research article. The thorough summary of each heading helps users to know whether an article is relevant to their research or not. It saves them from reading different research articles manually as the summary covers every point.

From abstract to research method, data, strengths, limitations, future work recommendations, and conclusion, OpenRead summarizes every aspect of any paper.

Question and Answer Session

Oat will act as a personal AI tutor here, allowing you to delve deeper into every research article. You can chat with your documents and ask questions related to them. This will help you to understand each and every aspect of an article without reading it.

These answers contain reference links and citations, helping you to access the original source of information present in the answer. Moreover, there is a general AI chat option on the website, allowing you to ask any question. It will answer it by taking out references from the browser and various research articles. If you are unsatisfied with any answer, you can further chat with AI to clear up your confusion.

It has a history page just like Gemini or ChatGPT, allowing you to access all of your previous chats on that page.

Paper Graphs

Visual graphs of relevant research papers are one of the prominent features of OpenRead Academy. Once you upload any PDF document, the tool allows you to have a paper graph. 

This paper graph contains the main research paper’s titles in the center with all the relevant papers’ branches coming out of it. You can click on any research paper from the graph to read it. 

Notes

Just like Notion, this platform allows you to add notes while you are reading research papers on the platform. It allows you to jot down your ideas and notes directly into OpenRead, streamlining the idea management.

OpenRead stores these notes in your history tab, allowing you to access them anytime and anywhere you want. 

Personal Account

OpenRead gives personalization feature options to its users, allowing you to make your workspace comfortable and productive. You can go to the account option on the platform to personalize your  interface according to your personality, including adding a profile ID picture, customizing colors, and various other elements.

Requesting PDF

Suppose you open an article on OpenRead. In front of you, there is the website link in the basic information tab. You click on the link, and it takes you to the main page for downloading the PDF. However, the PDF is paid, and you need to spend some money to download it.

Now, this is an issue. To resolve it, OpenRead offers the “Requesting PDF” option. You can request the PDF document on the platform, and within a short time, any other user or author will send you the document in your inbox. In this way, you can save your money.

Uploading PDF Document

What if you have a research article in PDF format and you want some help regarding it? In this situation, you can upload the PDF document to get help from the OpenRead Academy website. 

Once you download it, it will give you the option of summarization, AI chat, finding basic information, adding notes, and generating paper graphs. This will help you in understanding the document in a better way.

Becoming an Author

You can collaborate with this platform to become an author here. If you have written any research articles, you can upload them on this platform. It will give you a chance to get exposure to a large number of audiences. Maybe if people love your article, OpenRead will add it to their trending section, helping you to enhance your audience.

Real-time Publication Updates

Once you start using this platform, it becomes familiar with your search topics and research interests. So, whenever a new publication is released, it sends an alert to users. Moreover, it keeps you updated on the latest trends and information.

Trending Articles

There are countless research papers, topics, and websites on the internet, making it a tough task to find the most accurate and useful one. However, OpenRead Academy’s trending section helps users in tackling this task.

The platform gathers user’s experience and their way of interacting with each research article. This data helps determine the quality and value of research articles, which then become a part of its trending section.

Offline Access Capability

The tool allows you to download your AI chat, notes, and research papers on the gadget. This ensures you have offline access to the data and your research process never stops.

Multi-language Support

OpenRead Academy is not limited to English. In fact, you can access this platform in various languages, making it accessible to a global audience and reducing language barriers in research.

Pricing of OpenRead Academy

At this moment, this platform has three pricing tiers. One is free in which you can access every feature five times in a month.

The second is a Pro plan ideal for hobbyists and students. In it, you get 100 paper summaries and 30 paper requests, and you can use other features 300 times a month. It is just for 5 dollars.

The third is a Premium plan in which you can access every feature for an unlimited number. It costs 20 dollars per month.

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