Full text
Included references are now read in full. SysRevAI tries to fetch the PDF automatically and lets you decide next to the document.
Getting the PDFs
The automatic retrieval module queries, in order, legal open-access sources: PubMed Central, Europe PMC, Unpaywall, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, bioRxiv/medRxiv, arXiv, CrossRef and DOAJ. For each source it tries every open copy it knows of (the publisher’s and the repositories’), and when a link leads to a web page instead of the PDF it follows that page’s link to the document. It only uses official APIs and never bypasses a paywall or an “I’m not a robot” check. The cron worker processes the queue in the background. PubMed Central PDFs are taken from PMC’s open-data repository (NLM’s official channel for automated downloads), because the «PDF» links on PMC article pages ask for a browser check.
- Search full article: on the full-text screening screen, when an article has no text yet, the button searches every open source on the spot. If it finds the text but no PDF, it shows the text in a reader and keeps looking for a PDF. If it finds the article but the source does not allow automatic downloads, it says so (“We found the article at…, but it has to be downloaded by hand”) with the link to open it. If it finds nothing anywhere, it says so, gives you the publisher link (DOI) and asks you to upload it.
- PubMed Central articles restricted by the publisher: some articles can be read for free on PMC but the publisher lets no program download their text or PDF. In those cases the platform explains it: open the link, click “PDF”, save the file and upload it. After uploading you stay on the same reference.
- Queue: Full text → Queue shows what was found, what is missing and why.
- Manual upload: for articles without open access, upload the PDF you hold under your institutional licence. One by one or in bulk (a ZIP with the DOI or PMID in the file name).
- Coverage: Admin → Reports shows the share of references with full text per review.
Screening next to the document
The screen shows the PDF on the left (or the extracted text if the PDF could not be opened) and the criteria and buttons on the right. Here exclusion always asks for a reason: that is what PRISMA counts.
The AI reads the full text (or the PDF) against the protocol criteria and proposes include or exclude, with a confidence %, the reason and each criterion one by one. It is the same box as in title/abstract screening; you make the decision.
Ask the AI about the text (population, intervention, outcomes). Answers quote the passage.
A structured summary generated once and shared with the team.
Translate the abstract or text into the interface language with Google Translate.
No PDF
If there is no way to get the document, mark the reference as "not retrievable". PRISMA counts it as a report not retrieved, apart from exclusions by reason.
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