Highlights
Overcoming the Information Silo Mentality
The Business Dictionary defines the ‘silo mentality’ as a mindset present when certain departments or sectors are reluctant to share information with colleagues in different departments of a company. This mentality reduces operational efficiencies, reduces morale, and negatively affects company culture. Organizational silos also stand in the way of innovation and growth, by preventing colleagues…
The Benefits of Centralized Content Management
In the ‘olden days,’ corporations purchased print subscriptions to journals of interest for their on-site libraries, and employees came to the library and read at their leisure, instead of using a centralized content management system. Or perhaps they made a copyright-compliant photocopy of the article and took it back to their desks, always leaving the…
Accelerating Access to COVID-19 Research
In March 2020, ReadCube launched a new initiative to facilitate access to literature relevant to COVID-19 research. The COVID-19 Research Pass (CRP) program aims to provide direct access to over 26 million articles and is available to anyone studying or writing about COVID-19. Initial participating publishers include the JAMA, Springer Nature, and Wiley. The CRP…
November 2020 in Review
While this Thanksgiving may have looked different for a lot of us, our team is still working hard to bring you new features into the suite of Papers apps. SmartCite for Word Improvements SmartCite is the fastest and easiest way to cite your references. SmartCite for Word now allows you to choose certain page numbers,…
Thank you to our heroes!
This year we’re giving thanks to all our frontline heroes both out in the field protecting our loved ones, and those in the lab tirelessly working on a vaccine for the global pandemic. Papers is committed to helping researchers around the world fight COVID-19. Back in March, Papers partnered with publishers Springer Nature, Wiley, and…
New Feature Alert: Retracted Articles
Keeping up with the latest literature is difficult with thousands of articles getting published every day. Adding to that layer of difficulty is making sure your own personal library of literature is updated with any changes publishers make, including those articles that have been retracted bypublishers. Retraction of a published article indicates that the ideas,…
September 2020 in Review
We’re excited to bring you a slew of new features to the Papers app right in time for back to school! Papers 3 Importer (Desktop) For our Papers 3 users, we have upgraded the desktop importer to make transferring libraries even easier. Instead of having a separate app we now have folded our new importer…
We’re Growing!
We are excited to announce two new additions to the ReadCube family. We’d like to welcome Ryan Clark, joining us as VP of Enterprise Sales, and Darren Medeiros, as Sr. Director of Enterprise Sales. Together, Ryan and Darren bring over two decades of experience with a proven track record driving sales and building strong client…
Top 5 Features that will Make Research Easier this Fall
Back to school is looking a little different this year. Whether you are attending school virtually, back on campus, or a hybrid of both, Papers is here to help keep your research library organized. We’re listing the top 5 tips to help keep you organized this Fall. Discovery Papers is your all in one discovery…
July 2020 In Review
SmartCite for Citekeys his month brings a new way to cite papers. While SmartCite is consistnatly having new improvements over the past couple of months we have developed a new way to cite your papers using citekeys. To setup citekeys and start using Smartcite for Citekeys please see our Citekey Management article. This workflow works with Pages, Word, LibreOffice,…
Feature Spotlight: New and Improved Web Importer
We are excited to announce we’ve added brand new features to the ReadCube Papers Web Importer (browser extension) – making it even easier for you to discover and get access to the articles you need across the web. For those who are new to our Web Importer: Our Web Importer lives in your browser and…
Quick Release: July Edition
We’ve been hard at work implementing new features from user feedback and our feature release board. Since we’ve been receiving such great feedback, we decided to release a few features early this month. Take a look below to see what’s new. First up is Preview Annotations. In the last release, we introduced the preview pane,…
ReadCube Hires Miles McNamee as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales
ReadCube is very pleased to announce that STM sales veteran, Miles McNamee joins as ReadCube’s Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales. Miles brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in building high-performing sales teams, strategic planning, and driving revenue growth at companies such as Highwire, Copyright Clearance Center, and Liberty Media. “ReadCube is known…
Navigating the workforce remotely with Scismic
As the 2019 school year closes, job seeking is looking a little different from previous years thanks to the remote workforce taking place since the coronavirus pandemic. Even during regular times, navigating the job force after a first postdoc position can be daunting. Do I have enough experience? Is my experience related to this job…
April/May 2020 In Review
PDF Preview In this month’s update, we’re excited to release the new PDF Preview pane. Now, you can view a preview of the full-text article without it disappearing. When you toggle the Preview icon to show the preview the PDF will stay on your screen. If you rather not have the PDF shown, simply toggle…
Feature Spotlight: Digging into the Metrics
ReadCube Papers is more than just a place to store those PDFs. With Papers, we want to help enhance your research and allow you to discover articles smartly. Papers provides different metrics behind each article to help you go beyond using search engines. Library Metrics Every article imported into Papers will display a Metrics tab…
What is a Reference Manager
Reference manager… citation tool… bibliography generator – they all are names for literature management software. The purpose of such a tool? To make it easy for users to keep track of the research material they are using in their work. As a student, postdoc, research scientist, professor… you collect a lot of papers throughout your career (on…
March 2020 In Review
Tag Management We’re excited to bring into this update a long-awaited for feature, tag management. Now, in addition to filtering your tags, you can easily bulk delete and rename tags within your library. When deleting, that specific tag will be removed from all associated papers. When renaming a tag, you will see that tag updated…