Name: Alexandria
Author: Paul Emsley

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Alexandria is a application for managing a local store of scientific papers. Typically starting with a directory of PDFs, it extracts metadata (title, authors, year, DOI, journal) from the text of the PDF, consults CrossRef and OpenAlex, then presents a searchable, filterable card browser. Alexandria tries to make it easy to find and add related papers.

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
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
Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow, with their works, collaborators, funding 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 - so it's easily transportable

Detta paket, som tillhandahålls av gemenskapen, har inte verifierats av, är inte knutet till och stöds inte av Paul Emsley.

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
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
Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow, with their works, collaborators, funding 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 - so it's easily transportable

Detta paket, som tillhandahålls av gemenskapen, har inte verifierats av, är inte knutet till och stöds inte av Paul Emsley.

A bibliography that keeps itself up to date, and arXiv in the feed.

Live BibTeX: point Preferences at the .bib your LaTeX document cites and Alexandria rewrites it whenever the library changes, so citing needs no export first
Follow arXiv categories, all 155 of them grouped by archive, beside the bioRxiv subject collections
Clicking an author could fail to open the window, when an optional cache write part way through building the page raised and took the rest of the page with it
A long title broken inside a word gained a hyphen it never had, and a paper with no authors offered a menu that opened an empty list
A PDF asserting a typesetter's filename as its title no longer shows that on the card

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Alexandria

Personal library of scientific PDFs

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Alexandria

Personal library of scientific PDFs

Ändringar i version 0.8.1

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Andra appar av Paul Emsley