A smart tool that can help students
When students are assigned a research-based project they need to have access to a pool of information that they can base their research on. Then comes the task of going through the collected pages of information, books, references to abstract the relevant information. This process is long and students, pressed by time, skim-read as much as possible, make notes in order to remember the details that can be useful for their work.
Several helpful online tools make the students’ work on the task more efficient and faster. One of the tools like this is Scholarcy which helps students kickstart their research in their chosen field more quickly and confidently. The business, based in London, has created a virtual study assistant that transforms any type of research material into interactive summary flashcards.
Scholarcy selects the most significant keywords from a paper and links them to their Wikipedia meanings to provide further background for students who are unfamiliar with a subject or issue.
Scholarcy’s innovative Robo-HighlighterTM mechanically highlights key phrases and contributions in the article. Scholarcy’s powerful AI has learned how academic papers are written and can recognise when an essential point is being made, so no more printing papers and manually reviewing them with a marking pen.
Creates a citation-based summary: Scholarcy summarises the entire article with references, rewriting remarks in the third person to make citing the information in your report, essay, or thesis easy.
Finds the citations: Scholarcy locates open-access PDFs from Google Scholar, arXiv, and other sources, so you don’t have to comb the web for papers in the references. You can also download the whole bibliography in BibTex or.RIS format, which you can use to import each entry into your preferred reference manager.
Figures and tables are extracted: Do you need to double-check the numbers? Scholarcy locates the tables in the article and allows you to download them in Excel format, allowing you to perform your own computations.Scholarcy has been awarded a Cool Tool Award Finalist (2021) for “Best Higher Education Solution” by EdTech Digest’s EdTech Awards.
