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OpenRead

OpenRead transforms the research experience with AI tools for paper summarization, question answering, note-taking, and trend discovery. Explore 300M+ papers and uncover insights faster with Oat, your intelligent academic companion.

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About OpenRead

A Smarter Way to Explore Academic Research

OpenRead is an AI-powered research assistant designed to simplify how you interact with academic content. It integrates paper search, intelligent summarization, and note-taking into one seamless platform, saving researchers valuable time while deepening their understanding.

Trusted by Researchers Worldwide

With access to over 300 million papers across thousands of journals, OpenRead serves students, academics, and professionals seeking reliable, real-time information. Its user-friendly tools help you stay organized and focused throughout your research journey.

How OpenRead Enhances the Research Process

Paper Espresso: Fast, Focused Summaries

Paper Espresso condenses the main points of any paper in seconds, providing a clear snapshot of its relevance. Instead of reading entire documents, you get the essence up front, letting you decide quickly whether to dive deeper.

Paper Q& A: Ask Anything About a Paper

With Paper Q& A, OpenRead acts like a personal tutor. Ask specific questions and get contextual answers based on the content of the paper—no more switching tabs or manually parsing dense academic text.

Visual and Interactive Research Tools

Related Paper Graphs: Map Out Connections

Explore relationships between academic works through a visual graph system. OpenRead reveals how papers relate to one another, helping you follow ideas, citations, and themes through a web of connected research.

Integrated Note-Taking

Take notes directly alongside papers, keeping insights and annotations organized in one place. OpenRead turns note-taking into a smooth, integrated process that supports deeper learning and long-term retention.

Powerful Academic and Web Search

Updated Every Five Minutes

OpenRead's academic database is refreshed constantly, with updates from over 20,000 journals. This ensures access to the latest publications and supports reliable answers when using the platform’s AI assistant.

Comprehensive Web Search

When your research goes beyond the academic realm, OpenRead taps into trillions of web sources. This dual-search ability makes it a robust tool for cross-disciplinary or applied research projects.

Meet Oat: Your AI Research Companion

Conversational and Context-Aware

Oat, OpenRead's AI assistant, delivers fact-checked answers using the latest data. It remembers your chat history in a visual tree format, making it easy to reference and build on past interactions.

Customizable Web Access

Turn off Oat’s internet browsing when you need undistracted focus for tasks like code interpretation or data analysis. Switch it back on to regain access to the latest online information whenever needed.

Discover What's Trending in Research

Curated by User Behavior

OpenRead surfaces trending academic papers based on user engagement. These insights help spotlight significant new research and could even highlight your work to a broader academic audience.

Topic Subscriptions for Ongoing Updates

Stay informed on developments in your field with subscriptions to over 1,000 topics. OpenRead curates the most relevant papers so you never miss breakthroughs or new directions in your area of interest.

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