TL;DR first
A one-line takeaway, then the aim, methods, key findings and limitations.
AI summaries of research papers
Find a paper in the Science Catalogs library and VIRAT summarises it in plain language: what it asked, how it was done, what it found and where it falls short. Where the full text is open, the summary is written from the full article, not just the abstract.
From the full text
VIRAT reads open full texts (Europe PMC, arXiv, open-access copies) and says when it only had the abstract.
Compare papers
Put up to ten papers side by side and see where they agree, disagree and fall short.
Cite in eight styles
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA, ACS, MLA and Chicago, plus BibTeX.
How it works
- 1Sign in with your free Science Catalogs account.
- 2Search the library or open a paper from the Global Research Library.
- 3Read the summary, ask follow-up questions and add the paper to your draft.
Questions
Which papers can VIRAT summarise?
Papers in the Science Catalogs research library, over 30 million records, and papers you upload yourself.
Are summaries free?
Reading a summary someone has already asked for is free. A new summary uses a small number of credits.
Can I trust the summary?
Every summary says whether it was written from the full article or the abstract, and links to the paper so you can check it.
Try Paper summaries with VIRAT
One free Science Catalogs account for VIRAT, Scholars Post and SciNexID. Every account starts with 50 welcome credits and gets 20 free credits every month.