The ReadCube browser extension enhances the workflows in your research lifecycle: from searching and navigating to the full-text, to staying organized, reading and annotating, sharing and collaborating with colleagues, and finally citing papers and generating a bibliography in a manuscript.
• Find papers as you normally would across the web, including discovery sites like PubMed, Google Scholar, Dimensions, BioRxiv and most journal websites. Our extension instantly recognizes if a paper is in a personal or shared library collection for instant access. No more downloading the same paper multiple times.
• If it’s a new addition to your library, save references and PDFs, if available, directly to a personal or shared collection within your library. No more random PDFs piling up in your download folder or desktop.
• If you have the paper in your library, you can enjoy the same Enhanced PDF reading experience through our streamed PDF that opens wherever you are discovering new papers. Hyperlinked inline references, annotation and drawing tools, streamed supplemental files, article metrics, high-res figure browser and more.
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Doesn't work anymore in Safari
MBKid
After installing it, I couldn't find this extension in my papers desktop or online. Even after enabling it in the Safari preferences. It is sad that the new papers has lost the ability to search for papers online in Pubmed for example. Other aspects of the new app work well, but I have to first download articles through Entree PubMed, and then import them into the papers library. An inconvenience. The help functions for this new readcube app are very poor. The videos go way to fast to follow, and the written pages don't jive with the app.
Papers integration in Safari
Matt el Fesso
This extension allows Papers users to quickly add articles to their journal article collections. In case you are not aware, Papers is a Mac-friendly Reference Manager app similar to EndNote, Mendely, etc. I adopted its use 9 years ago because of its superior functionality (at the time) compared to other options. It does require a modest subscription fee, but its integration with life science journal websites is excellent. The iOS reader is very good, and so my iPad is my preferred way to read journal aricles. I used the Chrome extension for years, when browsing PubMed articles and the related journal websites. It provide a quick mechanism for adding an article to ones Papers library. I was never super happy using Chrome because I find it more clunky than Safari. I was not aware of this extension for Safari, and just loaded it now (Dec. 2024) for Safari v.18. For me it works great. When installed two things happen: 1) A left side bar appears when browsing an article in PubMed allowing you to add the article to you library, and the PDF. Additionally, there is an icon on the Safari menu bar that allows you do the same but also modify settings and add notes.
tremendous improvement over papers 2
Norm M
I run the desktop app just to put a copy of all my books and papers on the Mac. I use papers in Chrome, where everything works perfectly (not all relevant extensions work well in Safari yet; there doesn't even seem to be a Google Scholar extension for Safari). This is much more convenient than using a desktop app, since I search for papers in the browser, and use an extension to add ones I find. Almost everything about Papers 3 is a big improvement over Papers 2. The only major improvement it needs is to get metadata by ISBN for books. You have to lookup the DOI, or put the metadata in by hand.
I have used it for years
Dyscrasia
The ability to retrieve pdf’s, read abstracts and papers, and generate a wide list of biographies on my articles and books has been of immense value. The ability to pull papers into my database is great, but this problematic for books. Authors get confused with editors, and information is not always complete for monographs. For articles it is excellent. There is a learning curve.
Improvements
The browser extension now saves PDFs from IOPscience. Previously, only the article metadata was imported for IOPscience articles, including open access ones, and the PDF had to be added separately.
Bug Fixes
PDF downloads from the Save PDF button are now more reliable on publisher sites that use additional access checks, such as Wiley.
The extension button now appears on Scopus article pages following the recent Scopus page redesign. It is shown next to the DOI with the article's access status, and both Get PDF and Add to Library work as expected, including when an article is opened from the search results list.
Version 6.16.1
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