Studying open-access research papers

The paper tool searches Europe PMC, a public index of life-science and biomedical literature, and works with the open-access full text where the publisher has made it available. There is no subscription, no key and no account: if a paper is open access it can be opened, and if it is not, the tool says so instead of guessing at the content.

• The paper's own structure: abstract, methods, results and discussion where they exist.
• Claims taken verbatim from the text, each linked to the passage it came from.
• The paper's identifiers and a link to the original record.

It does not summarise findings in its own words, rank papers by quality, or tell you whether a result is reliable. Judging evidence is the reader's work, and a tool that produced a confident verdict from one paper's own wording would be inventing authority it does not have. What it can do is put the method, the sample and the stated limitations in front of you quickly.

Every paper project exports a fully referenced source list alongside the study material, so a quote you use in your own work carries its origin with it. The export writer strips private project addresses before the file is written.