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ReadCube Overview

What is ReadCube?

ReadCube is an all-in-one research management software designed to empower researchers, academics, and professionals in organizing, accessing, and analyzing scientific literature more efficiently. With advanced AI-powered tools, ReadCube transforms literature workflows, improves discoverability, and streamlines literature management, enabling researchers to focus on critical analysis and breakthrough findings. Built for research-driven organizations, particularly in life sciences, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, ReadCube's intelligent features support comprehensive literature review and seamless reference management. The platform's AI-enhanced search and personalized literature monitoring keep users updated on relevant studies, significantly reducing manual work and saving valuable time. Key features include: - Reference Management: Organize and sync references across devices, making it easy to access sources anytime and anywhere. - AI Assistant: Interact with individual PDFs or entire libraries to clarify complex terms, identify research gaps, translate content, and more. - AI-Driven Literature Recommendations: Discover relevant articles specific to your research interests, streamlining the discovery process. - PDF Reader: Annotate, highlight, and share insights within PDFs for collaborative research and review. - Literature Monitoring: Receive personalized alerts and notifications to stay updated on the latest publications in your field. -SmartCite: A user-friendly citation tool that connects your library to your writing platform, enabling seamless citation as you write. As part of the ReadCube ecosystem, Papers provides a sophisticated reference management solution specifically designed for academics and students. With Papers, users can organize, explore, and even engage with their references, ask questions, collaborate with colleagues, and cite effortlessly using SmartCite. ReadCube and Papers' AI-enhanced literature management solutions support thousands of organizations and millions of researchers worldwide, helping them get back to the breakthrough work that matters most.

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ReadCube and Papers by ReadCube help you collect and curate the research materials that you need. Our award winning literature management platform is more than just a reference manager; it will significantly improve the way you find, organize, read, cite and share scholarly research.


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ReadCube’s literature management system helps businesses discover, organize, read, annotate, share, and cite research. Simplify your day-to-day so you’re free to make tomorrow’s discoveries.With ReadCube’s advanced rights-managed content delivery technology, visualization solutions, and discovery features, ReadCube empowers publishing partners to tackle the technical challenges slowing the pace of innovation within their organizations.


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Easy download the information of pubilication and pdf files. Just go to the website and import to the library.
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Great features in the web and desktop client and sync to my mobile devices. The search function and pdf import works well if not always and the wor...
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ReadCube Demo - Library
Organize your research with ReadCube's library functionality. Share libraries with colleagues, keep track of references with tags and ratings, and build SmartLists for automatic organizing.
ReadCube Demo - Ask AI Assistant
Ask questions across a set of articles to quickly identify patterns, methodologies, research gaps, and more. The AI Assistant identifies where in each reference the information is derived, so you can validate the response.
ReadCube Demo - Chat with a PDF
Use the AI Assistant to chat with your research PDFs to quickly identify key information, clarify complex terminology, and so much more. The AI Assistant identifies where in the reference it derived its answer from, so you can easily validate.
ReadCube Demo - Search
Powered by Dimensions database of 150+ million publications, you can stay on top of the latest research without leaving the ReadCube interface.
ReadCube Demo - AI Assistant, Search Queries
Turn your natural language search into complex queries with the help of the built-in AI Assistant.
ReadCube Demo - Automatic Email Summary
Create automatic, recurring emails to notify you of any new articles added to your libraries. AI-powered summaries give you the ability to quickly review the content so you can stay up to date.
ReadCube is a leader in scalable literature management, enhancing research driven teams by transforming the way scholarly literature is accessed, organized, and shared – making it possible to get back to the work that matters most.
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ReadCube is a leader in scalable literature management, enhancing research driven teams by transforming the way scholarly literature is accessed, organized, and shared – making it possible to get back to the work that matters most.
ReadCube’s suite of AI powered literature management and systematic review solutions make it possible to organize, discover, understand and synthesize research materials.
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ReadCube’s suite of AI powered literature management and systematic review solutions make it possible to organize, discover, understand and synthesize research materials.
Save time and energy spent sifting through millions of articles and reach the critical research you need faster, with AI-powered Literature Monitoring.
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Save time and energy spent sifting through millions of articles and reach the critical research you need faster, with AI-powered Literature Monitoring.
Streamline your organization's systematic literature review workflows with ReadCube. With end-to-end solutions centralized into a single, easy-to-use platform, you'll save time, reduce the risk of errors, and eliminate process complexity.
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Streamline your organization's systematic literature review workflows with ReadCube. With end-to-end solutions centralized into a single, easy-to-use platform, you'll save time, reduce the risk of errors, and eliminate process complexity.
Discover how Papers Pro takes research to the next level for academics and students! Papers Pro streamlines your workflow and help you stay ahead in your research.
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Long C.
LC
Postdoctoral Scientist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

I love the import of new articles into the software, it only takes a drop and everything will be processed and formated. Amazing!

With AI, Readcube has significantlly increase my productivity at work and really strengthen my knowledge during the reading time. The built-in AI helped me overcome "background" hurdles when reading a new paper in a unfamiliar research area and hence, saving me a lot of times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

There was a bug due to different browsers that does not allow the import directly from the website due to the link was not connected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tremendously as I started using Readcube with my new job. As a scientist who is coming from a quite a different area, for sure, I need to read a lot to build up my knowledge and background for the new project.

Readcube streamlines the process of improting and formatting the paper into the software. Everything is in the right place including the title, the notes, and other materials. I love the AI feature that really speed up the whole process for me during the reading time. By interactions with the AI, I made quicker logical connections from a huge pool of information and fast tracking the reading goal and hence feeling quite acheiving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OM
Professor
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

The database of references and their PDFs is very useful, as is the ability to sync via devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

The user interface is inconsistent. Eg. if you press delete a recod, you get a dialogue box with yes highlighted, which elsewhere means this is the default option (as the programmer should expect if that is what the user chose). But no, if you press enter, the record is not deleted. In many of the PDF views selecting text is impossible of very difficult. Thee downloading of PDFs still fails frequently evne when they are clearly indicated on the journal page. Very frequently article data are not matched even though they include the DOI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives me easy access to my most important references (now about 4000) and searching within them. Easy import new pdfs with the uplod folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antoine L.
AL
Associate Prof
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

How to organize my references.

How to find references.

The citation process is fairly straightforward.

How the information of reference is automatically acquired by Read Cube is useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

The search engine in Papers, the predecessor to Read Cube, was far superior. With Papers, I could search for a specific word, which would bring all the references (articles) in which this word occurs, anywhere in the text (i.e., not only in the title and/or abstract). This was useful when having forgotten the specific information about a reference (authors, journals), but still remembering specific words that could be found in the text. Read Cube does not allow such a search.

Furthermore, I wish the citation process (how to include references in a Word document) would also function by subject, and not necessarily by using specific information about a specific reference, such as the authors' names. Again, this was a useful feature that could be found in Papers, which reduced the need to remember the names of authors. Only writing a given subject would bring appropriate references.

It's funny how so-called progress is often regressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

writting scientific papers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacob D.
JD
Lecturer Faculty
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

Papers is a powerful tool I use regularly from my web browser to catalog and annotate published papers (and other files) easily. The lists (essentially, a virtual directory structure) feature makes it easy to organize papers by subject, project, etc... and they can exist in multiple lists without requiring any duplication of files. The feature set is probably a lot more robust than I make use of, but for managing sources and quickly accessing and building references lists, it's an easy to use solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

The UI design feels inconsistent in terms of everything from where certain menus are to how pop up dialogs are presented. Some simple features the community has asked for are have not been implemented, such as having quick access to a list of recently imported papers (we only have recently read) and also being able to filter by papers that are not currently tagged and/or not currently assigned to any list. These are important features for housekeeping to ensure resources we saved but couldn't catalog right away don't become lost as our libraries grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

Maintaining an organized list of scholarly publications and references. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PD
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

After trying Mendelay, EndNote, and Bookends, none really fitted the way I need to save and create citations. I tried Papers and it finally fitted my workflow.

It has a very good and efficient layout, can automatically pick up most papers' details I either drag in manually or save through the Chrome extension. It also saves webpages, reports, books and lot of other styles. And the one thing other software lacked (either by not having the functionality at all or by the functionality being sub-parr) is being able to organise papers by tags. It also allows you to create folder structures, but I find tags far more efficient.

I use Scrivener to write and, while it doesn't have a direct widget (yet), it's easy to compile a Word doc and then Papers can insert all the correct citations in the right style and also create my bibliography. Such a time saver! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

Sometimes it can't automatically find a reference which is frustrating but not the end of the world. This happens with all the software I've tried.

The Chrome extension could be improved to allow you to add tags or folders when you save. Currently, you save and then go into Papers to organise.

Full integration with Scrivener software would be excellent and I believe from their blog that this is coming soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

The best way of organising all my papers and reports I've found. Also saves so much time when referencing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Veterinary
UV
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

I love the ability to save PDFs to my library directly from a database, the ability to sort into numerous folders, nested folders, use tags, and create citations in tons of formats easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

Sometimes when sorting through my entire library, my papers repeat in block sections as I scroll down, so I end up having to resort them multiple times to make sure I can see all of them. Sometimes saving the PDF to ReadCube function isn't available on certain websites (for example, AVMA publications). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

Unsure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YW
PhD student
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

It is very fast on mac, I like it. I has the powerful smart list, very good. I can directly search reference based on title, author, abstract, etc, very convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

I tried to import new papers based on specific paper's reference list within papers, while this process is not smooth. Sometimes the new papers was not imported as an individual paper, but as the attachment of that specific paper, this is not good. Another thing is that I find Papers Help (GPU) occupy too much memory on my mac M1. So I have to quit it and reopen sometimes. One last thing is contibue to improve the import option from website. I find that papers cannot access the paper from website sometimes, although the pdf is open-access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

first page i answered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JF
Assistant Professor
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

What I like the most about papers by ReadCube is how easy it makes to import papers from databases to my own library. A single click and the paper is in the library, with all the data extracted and easy to find, making it very easy to manage the library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

Something that I don't like abour Papers by ReadCube is that the library is only available online. I wish there was the possibility to save my library in my computer and access it as an app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

Papers by ReadCube is being very helpful in organizing my library. I really enjoy the possibility of creating smart lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OM
Medical Sciences Researcher
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

Easy to create and use a reference database. Easy to format and copy in any output style. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

can't integrate directly on mac writing sofware, and the papers extension doesn't work on recent versions of safari. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

references for gransts and manuscripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christian M.
CM
Scientific Researcher
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about ReadCube?

Easy to use, gerat way of organizing papers and minimizong citation errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ReadCube?

The old version of Papers had an option to drag and drop BibTex cites into LaTeX. Please bring this feature back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ReadCube solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping track of documents and organizing papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.