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Your library

Your library is the material you bring in: your own papers and patents, other people's papers you work from, and findings from your web searches. It is private, kept separate from the public Claim network, and it is what makes PIPress specific to you.

Two things happen when a paper joins your library:

  1. Its research claims are extracted into your private set, so PI can read them and search them.
  2. From then on, new public Claims are checked against it. When one contradicts or supports a paper of yours, your feed says so ("Challenges your own work") and PI can tell you about it.

Adding papers​

Open My Research Profile (/profile) from your name in the left rail, or click Research profile at the top of a chat. Under Your library you can:

  • Upload a document: PDF, Word, slides, sheets or text, up to 25 MB. Images are not accepted.
  • Paste a link: a paper URL or a DOI.
  • Or add one in chat: /import <link or DOI>, or attach a file and choose Get claims from file.

Each paper shows how many claims were extracted from it. Click a paper to read its claims. The same paper is never added twice. A paper that could not be read shows why ("could not fetch the link", "extraction produced no claims").

Mark the ones you wrote as "Your work". That is how PIPress knows which positions are yours, and it is what turns a contradiction into a collision worth flagging.

Adding papers is metered like everything else PI does. An upload over your weekly allowance is refused before anything is stored.

Attaching a file is not the same as adding it​

In a chat, Upload file attaches the file to that conversation: PI reads it and answers questions about it, and the text is replayed to PI on every later turn of that conversation. It is not in your library. Choose Get claims from file (or /upload-claim) when you want the paper to join your research profile too.

Attached files are listed under Uploaded files in the left rail, each linked to its conversation. Chat attachments are capped at 5 MB.

The web shelf​

Findings PI kept from your outside searches sit on their own shelf, From your searches, so you always know whether something came from your own material or from the web.

The rest of your profile​

  • Research questions. Write down what you are trying to answer, in a sentence or a paragraph. PI uses them to spot Claims that support or bear on your questions.
  • Researchers. Follow a researcher by ORCID id or Google Scholar profile and click Sync to bring their recent works (up to fifty) into your library.
  • Connected identities. Link your own ORCID or Google Scholar profile and your works are synced straight away. X and LinkedIn links are shown on your profile only.

You can do all of this by talking to PI too: /works shows it, /link connects an identity.