Do you have other browser extensions installed? If so, try disabling them, or open Scholarcy Library in a new Incognito window (Chrome) or Private window (Safari, Firefox, Edge).
If nothing appears after uploading a document, try refreshing the page by hitting the reload button on your browser.
When you upload a PDF, Word document, or public URL to your Scholarcy Library account, you should see a progress bar and, after around 15 seconds, a new record should appear in your library, showing the title, author, date and other information depending on your settings.
If there’s a problem, you’ll normally see an error message. But if after refreshing the page, nothing appears in your library, or the entry is empty, then there might be a few possible reasons:
- The PDF file contains no extractable text. We don’t currently support scanned PDFs – if your articles have been scanned to PDF, you’ll need to run it through some OCR software first. In future, we’re aiming to provide this directly in the library.
- The web URL is behind a paywall. You might be logged into your institutional repository, but Scholarcy can’t see what you see when you read a paper in your browser. If the article is not open-access, try uploading the PDF directly.
- The file is too large or too complex. Occasionally, some articles cannot be processed as their internal structure cannot be parsed. This can happen with PDFs with many images, or if you try to upload an entire book. For best results, break large files into smaller PDFs. For example, split a book into individual chapters and upload each one separately.
If you are still encountering problems, please send us the PDF so we can take a look.
