Introducing Papers...

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Introducing Papers...

Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite scientific articles scattered on your harddrive? Do you also try to desperately organize them by renaming and archiving them in folders? But like the piles of printed articles on your desk, you can't keep up with all the new papers you download, and despite all your efforts it has become impossible to find that one article.

Finally that all belongs to the past. We've been there, trust us, we know. That's why we wrote Papers, our latest application exclusively for the Mac. Papers will revolutionize the way you deal with scientific papers. Search for articles using the built in search engines, retrieve and archive PDFs, and read and study them all from within Papers, your personal library of Science. | Download Papers for Mac >>

Go mobile

You can now take along your personal library of science wherever you go with Papers for iPhone and iPod touch*. Redesigned from scratch to be a perfect and beautiful fit to the iPhone and iPod touch, it allows you to browse through the hundreds of articles in your library with the flick of a finger, lookup the papers written by a certain author or published in that well-known journal, organize your library in collections and add your rating or flag great works. Papers for iPhone and iPod touch comes with a stunning PDF viewer built-in, and of course allows you to add your thoughts and notes to the articles you read, all at the spot, wherever you happen to be. And of course it automatically synchronizes wirelessly with Papers on your Mac. Your personal library of Science, in your pocket. | Papers for iPhone >>

*) Papers for iPhone and iPod touch is sold separately.

Papers' Features

Papers for Mac bundles all the great technologies that come with Mac OS X to give you a completely new workflow for reading scientific articles. You seek, download, archive, and organize all your articles within a single application. But that is just the start, using spotlight you instantly find the paper you are looking for. Read it fullscreen, add your notes, send a copy to a colleague... These are just a few of the many features that once used to, you will never want to give up again...

Search, Download, and Archive Papers

Papers contains everything you need to get your favorite articles in your personal library. Importing PDFs that you already downloaded before is easy, you match them using your favorite online article repository like PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, etc. and all the metadata is automatically added. You might as well skip this altogether and start from scratch, the completely integrated search engines is the number one thing you are really going to like. Three clicks is all you need to find a paper and add it to your library. And finally we allow you to leverage the full power of your favorite search engine using predefined search terms. Looking for all reviews within your favourite topic, with full text open access? You got it!

Once you have found those articles and have added them to your library, you can directly go to the journal's homepage to download the PDF file and archive it on your mac. All from within Papers, no Safari required, we built it straight into Papers. And while you are downloading your PDF, we make sure it is correctly named and it is stored neatly organized on your harddrive.

Browse and Organize Papers

Of course you can further organize your library by creating folders to group related articles, or - even more conveniently - by creating smart folders that are always kept up-to-date while you add new Papers to your library. Thanks to the power of Spotlight, you will locate that specific paper in no-time.

While many other programs exclusively focus on articles, we believe that Journals and Authors are equally important. That's why you can view all the journals and authors in your library with one click. This brings even more ways to navigate your library or search for articles. You can add specific details to an author or journal, like the email address of a colleague or the password to a journal. The final version of Papers will come with the info for most popular journals preloaded.

Read your Papers

Even though PDFs are nice, until now most people would still print their articles simply because they read more convenient from paper than from a computer screen. Of course you can still print an article from within Papers, but we think we can finally make you forget real paper in many occasions. With a single click you can read a paper full-screen without any distraction. Use the mouse or keyboard to quickly navigate or zoom and you will start to see the benefits from reading a paper on-screen for the first time.

Inspect, Study, Compare and Share

The real strength of having your personal, digital library of Science shows when you start to inspect Papers more thoroughly, when you want to compare papers, or when you wish to quickly look things up. This is where Papers really shines. Since we built Preview straight into Papers you will never have to switch between programs anymore to read a PDF. Combine this with the ability of tabbed-browsing (made famous by web browsers like Safari and Firefox), and you quickly discover new powerful and dynamic workflows. Want to work with a paper? Find it using Pubmed. open its website in a new tab, fetch the pdf, search the PDF using spotlight, inspect the figures in detail, copy a figure or a piece of text, switch to another tab to have a look at a figure from another paper. Switch back to compare. You get the idea. Once you have worked with Papers, you ask yourself why it wasn't there before...

On June 12th 2007 Papers 1.0 won the Apple Design Award for 'Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution' at the WWDC 2007 in San Francisco. |