Scholarcy AI- Best Free Tool for Research Articles

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What is the life of a student: performing extra-curricular activities, managing their chores, writing, extensive reading, keeping up with course material, fighting procrastination, and organizing their thoughts. They keep struggling to manage their personal and professional life. For this, they have to learn the art of time management and the easy way to organize their thoughts and reading material.

To help them, there are various EdTech tools. Notion, Zapier, ChatGPT, PDF Drive, and other kinds of tools are helping students in different aspects. In this list, you can find Scholarcy, too. What is it? We are going to discuss it in this blog.

What is Scholarcy?

It is a knowledge simplification tool for researchers, bloggers, freelancers, tutors, and students. It is beneficial for all those who deal with complex and long documents on a daily basis. It could scan lengthy research articles or documents to extract key figures and summaries in a few seconds.

On its website, you have to upload the document or paste the URL, and it will scan the content present in it. You could tell it how many words you want in the output or what the language variation should be. The tool would provide you with the output within a few seconds. 

This output would be in the form of different flashcards or sections, such as introduction flashcards, conclusion flashcards, etc. You could save these flashcards in your library. 

Achievements of Scholarcy

This platform has won awards from Karger Publishing and ALPSP for innovation. Almost 15000 users have given positive feedback on Scholarcy and recommend others to use it. Students of some prestigious universities such as Oxford University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge are using this tool. It has been featured in ZDNet, Nature Index, and The Times EdTech blog.

Pricing of Scholarcy

Scholarcy has a free version which you can use either in the Chrome extensions or in the web form. This free version allows you three summaries per day and enables you to export flashcards, one at a time. You can import the files in different formats. And export it in the form of Word, PowerPoint, or Markdown.

If you want more features, you need to switch to a paid version. It contains everything present in the free version, along with other premium features. It allows unlimited summaries and enables you to organize flashcards in different collections. You could edit their text or highlight them. It also allows you to create your research libraries where you can organize flashcards into collections. You can highlight the text and take notes. You could have this package for 4.99 dollars per month.

How to Use Scholarcy Chrome Extension?

The first thing you have to do is to download the Chrome extension from the website of Scholarcy. Once downloaded, you should pin it in your Chrome. By the way, Scholarcy allows extensions of Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft Edge. You could download and pin it in any of these.

Now, open any website or research article. You could open any PDFs, books, websites, extensive reports, and articles. Once they are opened, click on your Scholarcy extension. A pop-up will come on the screen where Scholarcy AI has summarized the content present on your opened website.

The summary would contain various headings and flashcards. It would contain headings of conclusion, key points, abstract, introduction, future research, and many more. It also provides you with references that you can download. Moreover, you could export the written documents in the form of Word, Markdown, and PowerPoint.

Key Features of Scholarcy

Extensions

The website contains different types of extensions for you to download. Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari are the options. They are available for free to download and use so that you can summarize articles and save your thoughts easily. 

Analysis of Research Articles

The AI tool could analyze your content and give you a summary in the form of headings and flashcards. The headings would help you to know the analysis of a specific part of the article.

For example, you uploaded a research article on Scholarcy. Its AI Summarizer would provide you with headings such as Abstract, Introduction, Synopsis, Conclusion, Key Points, Results, Future Research, Comparison with other Researches, References, and many other relevant headings.

Now, when you open the Introduction heading, it will contain the analysis of the introduction of your uploaded document. So, you could know what is in the introduction of a real document. Moreover, the comparison flashcard would tell you how this document is unique from other research, and what are its similarities and differences from previous research. It helps in writing a literature review. Future Research heading would contain the weakness of your uploaded document and what future researchers should do to add more to this research.

Moreover, if there are any tables or images in your documents, the AI will provide an analysis of them, too. You can download the images and tables in different formats if you want. The tool also allows you to upload multiple documents at once and compare them.

Rob-Highlighter 

Scholarcy has a Rob-Highlighter feature that highlights the key points of your uploaded document. The AI will summarize your whole document and highlight those aspects that it thinks are necessary for you to know.

Flashcards

Flashcards are the different headings of your research analysis. You could save these flashcards in your library and could use them to review your articles. 

The best thing about these flashcards is they could easily create a literature synthesis matrix. You could export up to 100 flashcards to your Excel for comparison of different aspects of research articles.

Imports and Exports

The tool allows you to upload documents in different formats. Book Chapters, PDFs, Google Drive, Plain Text, Web links, YouTube links, and Zotero are a few formats in which you could upload the document. In response, the tool allows you to download the documents in different formats. Some of these are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PKMS, Markdown, and others. Moreover, you could upload multiple documents at the same instant and get their summaries simultaneously.

Integrations

The tool allows you to integrate with different platforms. Zapier, Notion, Roam, Obsidian, and various other integration options are available on this platform. They aim to enhance our productivity.

For example, you can export your Scholarcy flashcards to Zotero Library for efficient article screening. You can export formatted bibliography and articles from various literature-related platforms. Or, you could import your AI-generated summaries to different knowledge managers.

Scholarcy Library 

This feature is available in the premium version. You could download or store the AI summaries and flashcards in your library. It would remain organized and easily accessible on any device you want. It allows you to save the original documents, too, so that you can use them if you desire it.

Highlight, Annotate, and Key Notes

While reading any content, you must come up with different ideas and thoughts. These thoughts are worth noting so that you can remember them. For this, the tool allows you to annotate and write key notes. You could open the website or documents on Scholarcy and annotate or highlight the key points while reading the documents.

Question and Answers

The artificial intelligence technology of Scholarcy summarizes your documents within a few seconds. But, if you think you want more information or have any confusion related to it, you could dig deeper into your documents through question-and-answer sessions. You could write any prompt or ask a question and the tool would provide you the answer.

Conclusion 

To conclude this conversation, we could say that having a free AI Summarizer is a must for researchers, students, and freelancers. That's why, everyone should give Scholarcy a chance. This AI tool could assist you in understanding different kinds of research. Moreover, you could get AI writing assistance. You could note down your thoughts or annotate the documents for future use in this tool. It has a free version so everyone could give it a chance.

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