I’ve been wanting to make a modern and intuitive client for reading papers for a while. A huge thanks to arXiv for all they do

Check it out at OpenParchment. You can find the code here.

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

  • mulcahey@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Thank you for this! Definitely cool to get a better UI for this.

    However, I’ll say that the biggest pain point w/r/t academic papers isn’t Arxiv’s interface. It’s the papers themselves. PDFs are SO clunky, especially for those of us who enjoy reading on an eink screen. IMHO, the biggest unlock will be when someone figures out a way to easily convert academic PDFs to .epub while preserving the flow of the document.

    Still, in the meantime, I’m very glad to have this new project. Thanks again for building! Adding it to my bookmarks

    • Aurelius@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      12 hours ago

      Thanks for your question! I wanted to bring a more modern UI + add features that I personally wanted while reading scientific papers such as saving bookmarks & creating custom Lists based on specific tags.

      • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Well, it gives you complete control over your research and avoids relying on a service that could change it’s experience at any time. It would also allow each university to host their own which might be politically easier to justify than “we use server xyz from uni zyx”

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 day ago

    This is very cool, thank you! Sometimes when I post here, I link to a related research paper. A lot of research paper sites are a pain to use, and even harder to search with

    The share menu seems to give me this

    Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse

https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871
https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871

    How hard would it be to have some openparchment related links at the top of the article pages? Or perhaps a way to link to the articles details page directly?