What is Sourcely?
Sourcely is an AI-assisted academic research tool for students and researchers who need sources for an essay, paper, or other written work. Paste text or a paragraph to find relevant academic papers, review summaries, and prepare citations. It also offers search filters, a personal source library, deep search, and a way to ask questions about sources, bringing several research tasks into one workflow.
Sourcely Features:
Text-Based Search: Paste an essay, paper, or paragraph to find academic sources related to its content.
Citation Highlights: Sourcely identifies citation-worthy parts of submitted text and pairs them with relevant sources.
Search Filters: Narrow source discovery using filters that include publication year, authorship, and relevance.
Source Summaries: Get a general overview of source material through summaries provided alongside discovered sources.
Deep Search: Use a deeper search option to find highly relevant academic sources and insights.
Citation Management: Save sources in a personal library and export references in more than 700 citation styles.
Source Exploration: Ask questions about sources, request clarification, and download free PDFs for many listed papers.
Sourcely Benefits:
Faster Research: Starting with a passage from your work can reduce time spent searching broad result lists for relevant papers.
Clearer Source Review: Summaries help you quickly understand what a paper covers before deciding whether to read it in full.
Easier Referencing: Exporting citations in a chosen style reduces manual formatting when preparing in-text citations and bibliographies.
Organized References: A personal library keeps saved sources together, making them easier to revisit during research and writing.
More Focused Discovery: Filters and citation highlights help direct attention toward sources connected to the topic and claims in your text.
Use Cases:
Essay Source Finding: Paste an essay draft to locate academic papers that could support its arguments or provide additional context.
Paragraph Research: Search from a paragraph when developing a topic and looking for relevant papers before drafting a full assignment.
Citation Preparation: Collect sources in a library and export references in the style required for a paper or bibliography.
Paper Screening: Review summaries and use publication-year or authorship filters to assess sources for a research project.
Claim Support: Use citation highlights to identify statements in a draft that may need academic evidence and find related sources.