A web-based scientific papers management system. A new service for researchers, student and people who want to organize their papers and documents in a new, easy and fashionable way. http://myresearchhelper.com/

1. By Mehrez KRISTOU
mehrez@kristou.com
University ofTsukuba
My Research Helper:
a Web-base Scientific Paper Management System

2. Motivation
Many computers  fragmented papers organization
Traditional paper management not easy to find the right
paper In the right time
Papers wish lists  not easy to keep track
You need to read a paper  You are not in the lab
…

3. Purpose
Web based scientific papers management
+ Online : accessible anywhere
+ Simple: easy to use
+ Personal: My private space
+ Import / export: easy to import and export papers data
+ Statistics: Meta data related to papers
+ Online annotation
+ Papers segmentation into research axis

4. Existing solutions
The list is long:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_
management_software
We did find that We need more than one solution to fulfill
our needs.
Powerful solutions are standalone and OS specific

5. Project info
Started on 25 Feb 2010
Technologies used:
Programming languages:
PHP
Javascript
CSS
Frameworks
Codeigniter
ExtJs
Jquery
Database: MySQL

6. Easy to login

7. Easy to login

8. Easy & Intuitive

9. Easy & Intuitive

10. Handy organization
Create collection from keywords
Create collection from selected papers
Flag paper with the color that it make sense to you
Keep notes on paper, author, journal and even keyword
Every thing is related: Related papers view

11. Online storage
One account for each user
100Mb of online for the user workspace, includes papers and
previews  up to 50 papers with their PDF files, papers
information are not included
Accessible everywhere
A downloadable backup

12. Paper Annotation

13. Future work
Add more import and export targets
Finish the user management and profile
Implement an API to interface with standalone applications
Implement a social aspect to share notes, recommend
papers, share articles reading status …
Develop standalone application in Java to manage the library
offline and allow an online synchronization
Finish the implementation of the handset dedicated interface:
IPhone, Android and WebOS
Use the user Dropbox/UbuntuOne account as workspace
storage

14. Need testing
This application is still in Beta stage
Mentioned functions are working but NOT all of their usage
scenarios are tested
Which features you want to see?
You want to help? You are warmly welcome
You want discuss used technologies or propose others?
We are on facebook (MyResearchHelper page)
We are on Twitter (researchhelper)
By mail: webmaster@myresearchhelper.com /
mehrez@kristou.com