February was marked by the launch of several important features at R Discovery, that will take your reading experience several notches higher. Take a quick look!
Unified search that gets you what you’re looking for
The new unified search experience is one of the most anticipated upgrades to the app. You can now look for relevant research by topic, journal, or paper title. You can narrow your search results by applying filters such as journal, author, time since publication, or open access. You can also sort your search results by relevance or recency. If you have added your institute on our app, you can see the full text of papers published in journals that your institute is subscribed to. You can also easily retrieve your last 3 searches.
Apart from this, you can amplify your research with our recommendations on topics that are closely related to your interests – this will help you discover relevant research that might miss your eye otherwise.
Open PDF files in the app without downloading
To have a smoother reading experience, you can now open the PDF files of open access papers in the PDF viewer mode – you no longer need to download the file. Using the scroll bar at the bottom, you can jump to any page of the document that you wish to read.
Save time by reading highlights and summaries
Highlights summarize the main findings of a paper in 5-10 bulleted points. They can help you decide whether the paper is worth your time or not. Highlights are currently available only for open access papers with the CC-BY license.
Call to join the Researcher.Life Ambassador Program
The Researcher.Life Ambassador Program is an exclusive global community of researchers who advance in their own careers while empowering their academic communities.
The program’s head, Yuvraj Singh Rathore, will hold a special briefing session on 31st March to explain how the program can help you and answer any questions you may have. To support the participation of researchers from around the world, we will have the session in two time slots. Choose the slot that is more convenient for you and fill its registration form from the appropriate link below.
Mar 31st – 10:00 AM GMT / 7:00 PM JST
Mar 31st – 1:30 PM GMT / 10:30 PM JST
You can also apply to become a Researcher.Life Ambassador. Fill the form here – we will write to you with more details.
If you haven’t yet updated to the latest version of the R Discovery app, please do so now to get access to the latest features.
We would love to hear your feedback and any suggestions on what you’d like for us to work on. Do let us know what you think of the latest updates from R Discovery! You can either write to us if you have any ideas to share, or choose your preferred slot to talk to us.
