Paperlib

An open-source academic paper management tool.

Introduction

I'm a computer science PhD student. Conference papers are in major in my research community, which is different from other disciplines. Without DOI, ISBN, metadata of a lot of conference papers are hard to look up (e.g., NIPS, ICLR etc.). When I cite a publication in a draft paper, I need to manually search the publication information of it in Google Scholar or DBLP over and over again.

Why not Zotero, Mendely?

• A good metadata scraping capability is one of the core functions of a paper management tool. Unfortunately, no software in this world does this well, not even commercial software.

• A modern UI. No extra useless features.

What we need may be to: import a paper, scrape the metadata of it as accurately as possible, simply organise the library, and export it to BibTex when we are writing our papers.

That is Paperlib.

Highlights

• Scrape paper’s metadata with many scrapers. Support writing your metadata scrapers. Tailored for many disciplines (still growing):

  • General

    • arXiv
    • doi.org
    • Semantic Scholar
    • Crossref
    • Google Scholar
    • Springer
    • Elseivier Scopus

  • Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

    • openreview.net
    • IEEE
    • DBLP
    • Paper with Code (scrape available in the code repository)

  • Earth Science

  • Physics

    • NASA Astrophysics Data System
    • SPIE: Inte. Society for Optics and Photonics

  • Chemistry

    • ChemRxiv

  • Biology

    • BioRxiv / MedRxiv

  • ...

• Fulltext and advanced search.
• Rating, flag, tag, folder and markdown/plain text note.
• RSS feed subscription to follow the newest publications on your research topic.
• Locate and download PDF files from the web.
• macOS spotlight-like plugin to copy-paste references easily when writing a draft paper. Also supports MS Word.
• Cloud sync, supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
• Beautiful and clean UI.
• Extensible