Answering a research question often requires reading through several papers and figuring out how each of them might be useful. You need to track down what each paper says about your question, what methods the authors used to arrive at the relevant results, and what caveats to keep in mind to understand the boundaries.
Today, we are introducing Scholar Quick Read, to help you answer your research queries faster. Search results that discuss your question in depth now include a “Quick read” link. In Scholar Labs:
And in Scholar search:
Click “Quick read” to read a short presentation of the paper focused on your query. You’ll see an overview and three sections: Answers, Approach, and Considerations.
The Answers section presents an overview of what the paper says about your query as well as the supporting details for each of the points. Click “Show details” to view the details.
The Approach section describes the relevant methods and techniques from the paper.
Finally, the Considerations section lists some caveats to keep in mind as you analyze the results.
Quick Read links appear only for papers that you have access to. We have worked with many of our scholarly publishing partners to enable this for your library subscriptions. We thank all our colleagues for joining us in this shared endeavor.
Quick Read is available for logged in users and is currently limited to English articles.
Here is hoping Quick Read helps find answers to your research questions in the ocean of knowledge.
Posted by: Alex Verstak, Danni Chen, Hanshen Wang, Akash Sethi, Namit Shetty, Sam Yuan, Jonny Chang, Anurag Acharya
Scholar Labs is a search mode that helps you answer detailed research questions. Today, we’re releasing an update that:
Whether you’re starting your research journey with a literature survey, mid-way through a project and looking up the details of a specific method, or making sure you haven’t missed an important citation before sending off your manuscript, Scholar Labs is designed to help you find the papers you need.
For every question, Labs identifies its key topics, aspects, and relationships. It then searches Scholar and scans the results to find papers that best answer your overall research question. For each paper, it provides a brief description of how the paper might be helpful. And it includes all the familiar Scholar features that you depend upon.
You can also ask follow up questions to dig deeper and explore specific nuances.
Scholar Labs is available for all logged in users and supports questions in all languages. The updated version of Labs is available in English starting today, and we hope to roll this out to all other languages shortly.
Happy searching!
Posted by: Sam Yuan, Namit Shetty, Alex Verstak, Anurag Acharya
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar Labs, an AI powered Scholar search that is designed to help you answer detailed research questions.
It analyzes your question to identify its key topics, aspects and relationships. It then searches for all of them on Scholar, and evaluates the results to identify papers that answer the overall research question. For each paper, it provides a brief description of how the paper helps answer your question. And includes all the familiar Scholar features that you depend upon.
You can ask follow up questions to dig deeper and explore specific nuances.
Scholar Labs is available for logged in users and currently supports questions in English. Click here to get started. You can view example research questions and ask your own.
Scholar Labs is an experimental feature and is as yet available to a limited number of users. This is a new direction for us and we plan to use the experience and feedback to improve the service. If Scholar Labs is not yet available for you, you can register to be notified when it is.
Posted by: Sam Yuan, Alex Verstak, Hanshen Wang, Akash Sethi, Namit Shetty, Anurag Acharya
Scholar PDF Reader helps you read through your ever growing pile of papers quickly and thoroughly. Starting today, it also lets you mark key passages or jot down thoughts and questions as you read.
Select the text you want to emphasize, and a popup will appear, allowing you to choose a highlight color or add a comment.
Highlights and comments are saved automatically to your personal Google Scholar Library. The cloud icon confirms your notes are saved online. Access them from any device when logged into your Google account.
Click the highlight icon in the toolbar to view all your highlights and comments in the PDF.
You can also view all your highlights and comments in your Scholar Library.
If you don’t yet have the Reader, you can install it from its Chrome web store page. In addition to highlights, Scholar PDF Reader has many other features to help with your paper reading – AI Outline for quick overview, one-click preview of cited articles, linked figure and table mentions, citing and related articles, and light/dark modes.
Happy reading!
Posted by: Danni Chen, Hanshen Wang, Alex Verstak
