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research-lit discovers research papers on any topic by searching your personal library, Zotero collections, local PDFs, and academic web sources in one query. It extracts key ideas, pulls annotations, and generates summaries to accelerate literature review work. Configure which sources to prioritize or download papers directly to your collection.

DeepXiv enables layered exploration of open-access research papers, letting you search by topic or ID and read specific sections without loading entire documents. It supports trending paper discovery, web search, and integrates with Semantic Scholar metadata for citation context.

Exa Search performs broad web searches across blogs, news, research papers, and company sites with automatic content extraction. Query results return highlights, summaries, or full text alongside metadata like publication dates and authors. Use it when you need web-wide coverage beyond academic databases.

AlphaXiv delivers instant, machine-readable summaries of individual papers from arXiv, optimized for language models. When the overview isn't enough, it cascades to full markdown and LaTeX source inspection for deeper details. Ideal for explaining a specific paper—not for broad literature discovery.

Research Wiki maintains a structured, project-level knowledge base that grows smarter as you add papers, test ideas, run experiments, and capture findings. Every entry connects through typed relationships—papers extend or contradict each other, ideas get tested by experiments, claims gain proof status—so your research compounds rather than scatters. Initialize once, keep it current, query it to avoid re-deriving insights.

arxiv lets you search the arXiv repository by keyword or paper ID, then download full PDFs and view complete metadata including authors, abstract, and publication date. Results display in a sortable table format, and papers can be saved to a local directory for offline access.