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User Guide
This guide outlines how to use SciSpace to find research papers, extract data from PDFs, generate videos, and manage citations.
(Access Date: 22 July 2025)
Access SciSpace Website
| a. | Navigate to the website: https://scispace.com/; |
| b. | Click the Sign up button in the top-right corner; |
| c. | Create an account using your email address or by linking an existing Google account. |
Find Research Papers
| a. | Type a research question or a descriptive phrase into the search field; |
| b. | Click the Send icon; |
| c. | Review the summary from the top five most relevant papers and the table of literature review of 10 related papers; |
| d. | Use the filters to narrow down your results; |
| e. | Click Load more papers to add 10 more papers to the table; |
| f. | Click Add a Column to insert a new comparison aspect to the table (Note: The free plan supports up to 100 papers and 5 columns in the literature review); |
| g. | Click on a paper to view detailed information in the SciSpace viewer; |
| h. | Click the Cite button to generate a citation; |
| i. | Click the Bookmark icon to save the paper to your library. |
Extract Data from PDFs
| a. | Select the My Library tab from the left-side menu; |
| b. | Click the Upload PDFs button and select local files in the pop-up file explorer; |
| c. | Select a collection in the SciSpace Library and click Upload; |
| d. | Click to open the uploaded document within the SciSpace viewer; |
| e. | Select the Summary tab to view the generated summary; |
| f. | Ask questions about the PDF in the AI Chat section; |
| g. | Click the My Library tab in the left-side menu to return; |
| h. | Click the chatbot icon next to the Upload PDFs button; |
| i. | Ask questions about this library in the pop-up AI Chat section. |
Generate Video from PDF
| a. | Select the PDF to Video tab from the left-side menu; |
| b. | Click the Upload PDF button and select a local file; |
| c. | Click Generate Video/Slides for PDF to initiate the process; |
| d. | Click the uploaded file to view the generation progress; |
| e. | Click the View button to see the result; |
| f. | Click the download icon to download the video; |
| g. | Click the Copy Link button to get the share link. |
Generate and Export Citation
| a. | Select the Citation Generator tab from the left-side menu; |
| b. | Choose a citation style from the drop-down list next to the search field; |
| c. | Search for a paper by its title, DOI, or URL; |
| d. | View the generated main citation and in-text citation; |
| e. | Locate the My References section on the page to batch export a citation list; |
| f. | Check the boxes next to the papers you wish to cite and click the Export as... button; |
| g. | Select a file format: DOCX or BIB. |
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