The AI-powered
article summarizer

Scholarcy Summarizer

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Log into your Scholarcy account and go to the Subscription page to manage your account. You have full control over your subscription and can pause and restart it at any time.

As well as being able to upload files directly to a folder, you can also attach one or more RSS feeds.

When you create a new folder, you'll see an RSS feed icon on the right.

Click on that icon, paste in an RSS feed URL, then click the Check RSS button to validate the feed, and click the Subscribe button to prepare your feed.

The feed will be checked every hour or so, so your folder may not be populated immediately, but you'll get an email when the feed is updated. RSS feeds work best if the content in the feed is open access, so we can fetch the full text, rather than just the abstract.

You can click on the RSS icon at any time to unsubscribe from or restore the feed. You can also attach more than one feed to a folder.

Not everyone wants to install another extension, so you can try out Scholarcy without commitment with our article summariser and Flashcard creator. The Flashcard generator can also be used to preview cards before you save them to your Library when you sign up for a Scholarcy account.

For best results, Scholarcy needs access to the full text of the article. If the article is behind a paywall or institutional log in, unfortunately our cloud-based services cannot access it. In this case, it is best to upload the PDF of the article instead using our Article Summarizer  - click on the Upload document button and navigate to the PDF on your local machine.

You can also upload files directly to your Scholarcy Library.

In all cases, the PDF must contain readable text. Currently, we are unable to handle scanned PDFs that are essentially just pages of images, and need to be converted to readable text using OCR software first. However, we hope to have an OCR option available soon.

Indeed it is! An individual, annual subscription is available at $90 per year (pricing may also be available in your local currency). This represents a saving of 25% on the cost of 12 monthly subscription payments. Select the Annual Subscription option when activating your free trial.

If you have already started a subscription, you can switch from monthly to an annual subscription, or from annual to monthly, at any time, via the Manage subscription option on the Subscription page.

If you'd like an annual subscription for multiple users, please contact us as we can offer volume discounts and site licenses.

If you are currently on a monthly subscription, you can switch to an annual subscription (and vice versa) by following these steps:

  1. Log into your Scholarcy account and go to the Subscription page
  2. Click the Manage subscription button
  3. Click on Update Plan
  4. Select the new subscription type (Yearly or Monthly) option and click Continue
  5. You will be shown your new payment plan with any pro-rata payment due. If you are happy with this, click Confirm.
No. Scholarcy does not distribute any original papers or the summaries of these papers. When it comes to copyright, think of Scholarcy as the same as any reference management tool, Google Drive or Dropbox. The paper is uploaded to the user's personal account for their personal use for research purposes. And we go one step further - the original paper is not stored. It is summarised and the original PDF is deleted. There is no way for anyone else to access the paper.
You can! We have a suite of cloud-based or on-premises APIs, and are happy to work with other companies who would like to use our technology in their products and services. For example, Scholarcy is probably the only tool out there that can
  • extract references accurately from any PDF or Word document, in any referencing style, link them to Google Scholar, and convert them to XML, so you can easily reformat them into your own house style.
  • extract metadata from manuscripts to pre-populate author submission and peer review systems
  • extract key findings and highlights to improve discoverability and SEO
  • generate lay summaries for a non-expert audience
  • extract key terms, glossaries, facts, statistics and claims from documents of almost any size (hundreds of pages or more)
When you sign up for a subscription, our payment provider Stripe needs to verify that your card is valid. To do this, sometimes they will issue and then automatically reverse either a £0 or £1 authorisation to verify that the card is valid and able to be charged. This authorisation will be reversed within a day or two, and should drop off your statement shortly.
Normally, you should see a 'Save to Library' button in the Chrome extension when you are logged into your Scholarcy Library account. If not, you may need to log out from Scholarcy Library, clear your cookies, and log in again. Log out from your Scholarcy Library. Go to chrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies and search for scholarcy.com. Delete cookies from library.scholarcy.com and scholarcy.com and then log in to your Scholarcy Library account again. You may also need to temporarily disable any Adblocker extensions you have running while you carry out this process.