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Have you come across scite (https://scite.ai) yet? We're also innovating in this space by extracting citation statements from full-text articles and classifying their intent.

So let's say paper A cites paper B. If you look at paper B, we show you:

- how many times it was cited

- the direct paragraphs from paper A where it was cited

- the sections from paper A where paper B was referenced

- ... and a lot more

You can also now search these citation statements directly to find evidence-based information pretty quickly.

- Short video to showcase that search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjCn-4uMJk

- Website with a bit more details: https://citation.to/

You can also visualize citation networks similar to ConnectedPapers, set notifications for new citations on groups of papers you're interested in, and much more.

(Disclaimer -- I work here!)

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No one cares. This thread is about free access to papers and not another paid service that forces you to pay monthly fees for something that could be a free service. In that sense you aren't any better than large online publishers. 8 bucks a month for a scientific paper search engine? Really?

I vouched for your comment because you have a very valid point, but you could be more polite in making it. Welcome to HN.

Thanks. I am really cranky today. I'll do better next time.

Hiya,

Well, I definitely agree with your sentiment in a normative sense that scientific papers should be free and readily accessible to all -- in part because a lot of it is funded through tax dollars!

But given the current state of affairs, we're looking at making that information accessible to people without having to pay exorbitant fees to access individual research. We also offer steep discounts for students or anyone in academia.

With that in mind I would push back a little that we're just a scientific paper search engine -- our system does a lot of work in extracting and classifying those citation statements, which makes it more powerful than traditional scientific search engines.

And besides just using our search, a huge time-saving value of our service is the report pages which helps you quickly build a qualitative understanding of how something was cited.

Even if all scientific papers were freely accessible, our report pages allow you to see the direct, relevant snippets from citing papers without having to manually read each and every single one. I think that is quite valuable!

I know I've gone on a little tangent from the original discussion about scihub, and having free and open access to papers, but I did just want to throw that in because I think it's an important distinction. And as much as we all want that free and open world to exist, I think it's also interesting to think about how we can open up that information for people in the interim.

Best,

Ashish

The site sounds interesting, but signing up just to evaluate the results of my first query is a no-go for me.

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