With the volume of scholarly content continuously growing, many researchers are increasingly faced with the challenge of organizing an endless list of articles waiting for attention. To simplify this task, Google Scholar has announced a new feature, AI outlines in PDF Reader. This tool is designed to simplify the process of reading and analyzing publications, offering users to focus on important aspects of scholarly articles.
What are AI outlines?
AI abstracts are an expanded table of contents for a paper, consisting of short paragraphs reflecting the key sections of the paper. This allows you to quickly familiarize yourself with the main topic and research problem, and then delve deeper into points of interest, such as methods, results, discussions, or specific details.
How it works?
AI outlines are currently available for selected articles in English. To use this feature, simply click on the PDF link in Google Scholar. For other PDF documents, the normal table of contents is displayed. The user can click on the AI Outline icon to request an AI outline. This greatly speeds up the reading process, allowing the reader to focus on the aspects most relevant to the researcher.
Google Scholar PDF Reader update
If you already have Scholar PDF Reader installed, the update will happen automatically, which will include AI outlines. There is also an option to update Reader yourself by going to the Chrome extensions page (you need to enter the query "chrome://extensions" in the address bar). To do this, you need to activate developer mode and click the "Update" button. For those unfamiliar with Reader, you can install it from the Chrome Web Store.
Additional features:
- one-click preview of cited articles
- mentions of related figures and tables
- the ability to adjust the screen brightness for your needs by selecting a light or dark background mode
- The ability to copy and paste popular citation style formats directly into your document.
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