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by solardev
702 days ago
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Not a professional, but as someone with a science degree and casual interest in reading papers now and then, I wish there was a: 1) A better (cheaper) way to access them. It doesn't necessarily have to be free as in SciHub, but there's no way I'm going to pay $80 as an individual to read one paper. 2) An easy way to summarize them, ask questions of it, etc. Google's NotebookLM (https://notebooklm.google.com/) is actually decent at this... upload a PDF and you can ask it questions about that content with minimal hallucination and citations back to the source. However, it's buggy (some files just never finish loading, others won't accept any prompt at all). And it's probably another short-lived experiment soon to meet the Google Graveyard :( I would be willing to pay maybe $10-$20/mo for a service that can do both (provide Netflix-like access to papers, and also use LLM to summarize them and answer questions). Bonus points if it can do its own meta-analysis of multiple related papers and easily summarize them. I suspect journal publishers would be heavily resistant to any of that. Probably a more technical workaround would be a web browser extension that uses public/school library logins to fetch papers from the clientside and then mirror them into the service. There is something like this in the legal world, https://free.law/recap to bypass access fees. But there's no copyright concerns there (since the documents themselves are public domain works of the federal gov, different from scientific papers). |
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