Sourcely
AI-powered academic search assistant to find sources, summarize, and cite papers
Executive Summary
Sourcely is an AI-powered academic research assistant designed to streamline literature reviews, citation management, and academic source discovery. By analyzing draft text, essays, or research questions, Sourcely queries an index of over 200 million academic papers to locate relevant peer-reviewed studies and credible literature. The platform offers automated paper summarization, citation generation in standard formats (such as APA, MLA, and Chicago), and advanced filtering by publication year, authorship, and relevance. It also features a personal citation library for organizing references and supports multi-language text search and source discovery.
Use Cases
- Finding credible academic citations by pasting draft essay or paper excerpts
- Conducting preliminary literature reviews across millions of scholarly papers
- Generating and exporting citations into reference management tools
- Summarizing academic papers to quickly determine relevance to a research topic
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-based web application connecting natural language semantic search models to academic paper repositories and journal crawlers.
- Deployment
- SaaS
- API Available
- No
- MCP Server
- No
AI/ML Stack
- Context.dev
- LLM-based semantic search
Pricing
- Model
- Freemium / Subscription / One-time options
- Starting Price
- $19/month (billed annually) or $37/month
- Target Customer
- Students,Academics,Researchers
- Contract Type
- Annual subscription or month-to-month
- Free Trial
- Yes
About Sourcely
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