Epsilon Libraries: Save and Analyze Your Favorite Papers

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Epsilon’s academic search capability is great for finding scientifically accurate information. But to properly conduct a detailed literature review, it’s helpful to have a place to store all the papers that you encounter during your search in a centralized and organized place.

Epsilon Libraries can help you with this. Setting up libraries give you a permanent place to store papers that you need, and more importantly, lets your run confined search queries and custom topic analyses over the set of papers that you’ve personally vetted.

Seting Up Your Library

Creating a Library

You can create a new library in the upper left hand corner of the page. Afterwards, you’ll see left side bar update to reflect your new library.

Adding Papers

If you have papers downloaded already that you want to include, you can upload them directly through the ‘Add Papers’ button. Here you can also upload by pasting a web link, or run a direct search for papers by title. We use the Semantic Scholar academic database to serve papers that are similar to your search terms. From this view, you’ll be able to add any paper that has a publicly, free available PDF.

You can also add papers directly from your public searches. For any paper that has an open access PDF, there will be a ‘plus’ button by the paper title. Clicking this will add the paper to your currently selected library.

Finally you can delete papers from your library by clicking the trash icon by the paper title in the library side panel.

Using Your Library

Library Queries

Now that you have libraries set up, you can run all of Epsilon’s analysis tools against your set of vetted papers.

For example, you can run a library search query by selecting the ‘Library’ option in the search source toggle.

Summarize Key Topics

You can also now run a topic analysis by selecting the ‘Summarize Topics’ feature tab. Epsilon mines all the relevant keywords from the papers you have in your library. You can select the topics you’re interested in, or add custom ones. Then, you can run questions across all the topics, all at once. This is great for gaining an understanding of some high level questions (e.g. what are the limitations of X) across multiple concepts.

That’s a primer on using libraries with Epsilon. Try it out and let us know what you think!