Name: Alexandria
Author: Paul Emsley

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Alexandria is a GTK4 library for managing scientific papers. Point it at a directory of PDFs and it extracts metadata (title, authors, year, DOI, journal) from XMP, page text, CrossRef and OpenAlex, then presents a searchable, filterable card browser.

Full-text search across title, authors, abstract, DOI and journal
Citation counts and per-year sparklines from OpenAlex
Built-in PDF viewer with highlight and comment annotations, and click-through citation links that jump to the reference and back again
A viewer sidebar with the paper's table of contents, page thumbnails and your highlights
Structured full text (JATS XML) fetched from Europe PMC and stored beside the PDF, giving exact reference lists
Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow, with their works, collaborators and affiliation history
Journal and topic subscriptions, flagging new papers by authors you have looked up before
BibTeX, RIS and CSL export; BibTeX and DOI import
Preprint detection (arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv and more)
Duplicate detection by DOI and file hash, with supporting information recognised as belonging to its parent paper
An MCP server, so an AI assistant you already use can search and read your library — no model or API key inside the app
Sidecar JSON metadata lives next to each PDF, never inside it

Ce package est fourni par la communauté. Paul Emsley n'est pas affilié à ce package, ne le vérifie pas, et ne fournit pas d'assistance aux personnes qui l'utilisent.

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Full-text search across title, authors, abstract, DOI and journal
Citation counts and per-year sparklines from OpenAlex
Built-in PDF viewer with highlight and comment annotations, and click-through citation links that jump to the reference and back again
A viewer sidebar with the paper's table of contents, page thumbnails and your highlights
Structured full text (JATS XML) fetched from Europe PMC and stored beside the PDF, giving exact reference lists
Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow, with their works, collaborators and affiliation history
Journal and topic subscriptions, flagging new papers by authors you have looked up before
BibTeX, RIS and CSL export; BibTeX and DOI import
Preprint detection (arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv and more)
Duplicate detection by DOI and file hash, with supporting information recognised as belonging to its parent paper
An MCP server, so an AI assistant you already use can search and read your library — no model or API key inside the app
Sidecar JSON metadata lives next to each PDF, never inside it

Ce package est fourni par la communauté. Paul Emsley n'est pas affilié à ce package, ne le vérifie pas, et ne fournit pas d'assistance aux personnes qui l'utilisent.

A first run that asks where your library should live, looking a paper up from a half-remembered citation, and Retraction Watch in the feed.

A first run asks where your library should live instead of deciding for you — one click accepts the suggested folder, the other chooses any other
Discover "By citation": find a paper from its first author, year and journal, or paste a citation and have those three filled in for you
Follow Retraction Watch, with the article's picture on the card where its feed carries one
Alexandria knows which folders its Flatpak may open, so a PDF dragged in from out of reach says so rather than reporting "no PDFs found"
A citing-impact score cut short by a rate limit is marked "(partial)" and recomputed, rather than cached for thirty days as though it were the answer

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Alexandria

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Changements dans la version 0.7.1

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Autres apps par Paul Emsley

Alexandria

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Changements dans la version 0.7.1

Liens

Autres apps par Paul Emsley