Welcome to Scholarly

"A good scientist (or student) knows the right answers. A great scientist (or student) knows the right questions." Author unknown

What is Scholarly?

Scholarly is a research article annotation tool which enhances scientist’s ability to interactively read and understand a research article more effectively. It offers a unique analytical dashboard for users to organize, track and retrieve their content from research papers. You can acquire new insights by working in groups or allowing public to review or improve your annotations.

Why should we use Scholarly?

Research articles are the source of knowledge in respective field of study. The information these research studies encompass shapes our understanding or lay foundation for future studies. Scientists and researchers read through hundreds of articles over their careers in the process of writing reviews, grants or publish their research findings. Unknowingly throughout this research career a vast information has been imbibed but at the same time some challenges are left unaddressed

Pulling out an old article with specific content is a herculean task. Can this be made easier?
There is a gap in understanding an article information between an experienced PI and his enthusiastic student? Can we reduce the knowledge gap?
Readers highlight article content that interests them, the reason behind their highlight just stays in his/her thought while reading the article and when he revisits the article it’s hard to recollect the reason he highlighted the content? Can user track their reasoning?
Most of the research findings are a result of asking the right question and addressing it. Ability to ask the right question is limited by understanding of the subject. Can an experienced scientist help the students to learn asking the right questions?
Researchers spend hours on mining data from research article but spend hours organizing their content. Can we cut down time spent on mundane task of organizing?
The solution to all the challenges above is Scholarly.

How should I use Scholarly?

Sign-in with your basic information
Upload a PDF file of the article ( If full text of the article is available on Pubmed enter the required information to pull the full text of the article)
Using mouse select text to highlight the content and right click to enter relevant annotation and tags.
- Relevant annotation can include an appropriate question the content address or few sentences that reasons why you highlighted it or other reasoning you feel appropriate (Don’t worry spending time on what to write, you can always edit and there is a large benevolent community to help you phrase appropriately).
Note: We encourage framing a question relevant to your highlights because it is easier for our brain to remember something with a question and answer context.
Save the annotation to your database
Finally, you can invite your fellow peers to read your annotations sending an invitation by email or you can share publicly to help other readers to read article with your annotations and help them understand the content of the article better with some context of annotations.

Who should use Scholarly?

Do you read research articles? Have you ever faced a situation that you read an article but somehow missed “that point”? Did you ever fell that you understood an article better after discussion? If your answer is Yes, Scholarly is for you!! Scholarly is for students, researchers, and scientists in all fields of sciences who intend to acquire new insights with a click of a button.

Who are we and what are we up to?

We are research scientists who traveled your path. We believe that the level of understanding of a research article varies with the experience in subject knowledge of the reader. Seminars, Webinars, and other presentations are our interactive avenues to learn about various research studies. However, reading and understanding an article grows our ability to think analytically.

You probably heard this “Reading is active process and watching is passive process”. Reading requires lot of attention and all researcher can relate to this, we lose track of our article after reading 3 pages. This is what we would like to change, reading an article and retaining the information should be as easy as possible.

The tool is helpful, but …?

We’re in process of understanding the needs of scientists and students. We’re constantly working in adding new user friendly features to engage the user interests. Your feedback and suggestions are appreciated. We are learning the costs to operate this service and whether it is adding value to the community. Our goal is to keep this service free and add value to the user. Don’t hesitate to drop an email.