How to add papers

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent ID given to almost every journal article. Unlike a web link, it never changes, even if the journal moves its website. It always starts with 10., for example 10.1371/journal.pone.0000308.

Where to find one:

• ·On the first page of the PDF, usually near the title or at the top or bottom of the page.
• ·On the article's page on the journal's website, often labelled DOI or https://doi.org/…
• ·In the reference list of another paper, or in Google Scholar and your reference manager.

You can paste it plain, as a doi.org link, or with doi: in front. All three work.

1. 01Press Upload a paper. The window asks “What are you reading?”.
2. 02Drop the PDF into the box, or click it to choose the file. Up to 30 MB, and scanned papers work too.
3. 03Wait a few minutes while Brainie reads it. You can close the page; it keeps working.
4. 04When it is ready, you start at Pass 1. Answer each question before Brainie shows its reading.

1. 01Press Upload a paper, and below the drop box find or add it by DOI.
2. 02Paste the DOI and press Find. You will see the title, authors, journal and year.
3. 03If a red box says This paper has been retracted, its findings should not be relied on or cited as valid.
4. 04Then follow whichever of these you see:
   • A free copy is available: press Get the PDF and analyse. It is fetched and read for you, with no downloading.
   • Free to read online: press Open the paper, download the PDF from that site, then drop it into the upload box.
   • No free copy was found: get the PDF through your university library, then upload it. Or press Save to reading queue to come back to it.

Check which version you got. A free copy is sometimes a preprint (shared before peer review) or the author’s accepted manuscript. Brainie tells you when it is, and keeps a note on the paper. Read it by all means, but quote and cite the published version.

Finding a paper is free. Analysing it uses one credit, the same as an upload.

First, export your list from the tool you use:

• ·Zotero: select the papers or a collection, right-click, Export Items…, choose RIS or BibTeX.
• ·Mendeley: select the papers, then File, Export, and choose RIS or BibTeX.
• ·EndNote: select the references, then File, Export, with the RefMan (RIS) output style.
• ·ResearchRabbit: open a collection and export it as RIS or BibTeX.

Then bring it in:

1. 01Open Reading Queue in the sidebar and press Import.
2. 02Choose the .ris or .bib file. Up to 500 references at a time.
3. 03A message says how many were added. Papers already in your queue are skipped, so importing an updated list only adds what is new.
4. 04On any imported paper with a DOI, press Find a free copy to go straight to step 2.

Only titles, authors, years, journals and DOIs come in. No PDFs, notes or tags are taken from the file.

• ·Research Brainie does not search the literature for you. It finds and reads the papers you have chosen.
• ·Papers are never stored. A fetched free copy is read for its text and deleted, exactly like an upload.
• ·Only the DOI is sent to Crossref and Unpaywall to find a paper, never your name or account. The privacy policy has the details.
• ·Some journals block automatic downloads even for free papers. When that happens you will be offered the link to open it yourself.