Literature review

Explore the literature.
Build your review.

Discover papers, read deeply and keep the passages that matter. Your library, highlights and comments in one research workspace.

Review toolkit

Build a search you can return to.

Group concepts, review alternative names and preserve the strategy behind your results.

Build a search strategy

Put one scientific concept in each group. Alternatives within a group use OR; included groups use AND. Choose only the concepts essential to your question. Each alternative is searched as a literal word or phrase.

Concept 1

Include this concept

Name for concept 1 (optional)

For your reference, e.g. target, treatment or outcome. The name is excluded from the query.

Concept 1, alternative 1

Use alternative 1

Exact strategy preview

Add an included term to preview your strategy.

This fills the search box. Review the strategy and filters, then press Search.

Suggest a search strategy with Claude

On request, Claude can propose search concepts and alternative names. Review the suggestions before searching. Only the question shown below is sent to Anthropic.

Research question to send

Enter a question in the search box above.

Your Study notes, saved records and experimental data are excluded from this request.

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I agree to send the question above to Anthropic

Save or restore a search

Save the exact strategy and this successful retrieval as a Study note. Historical runs keep their sources, filters, limits and returned identifiers. Restoring fills the search form; press Search to run it again.

Study for search history

Open Workspace to save and restore Study search history. Current search exports are available without saving.

Save papers to your library. Keep passages and comments in the Review notebook. Compare structured findings in Evidence.

A place to start

Follow a question from discovery to evidence.

Try a starting point below, or bring your own topic. Examples fill the search for you; you choose when to run it.

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Find & shortlist
Search, refine and select papers. Follow citations to widen your reading.
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Read & annotate
Read abstracts and available full text. Save highlights and add your own comments.
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Compare & take away
Build evidence tables and export references, findings and your review notebook.

Start your next line of enquiry.

Follow a question from discovery to evidence.

Find & shortlist

Read & annotate

Compare & take away