R Discovery

R Discovery is a free app for students, researchers and others in academia to find and read research papers. This literature search app for researchers curates a reading library based on your interests so you stay updated on latest academic research with access to scholarly articles, scientific journals, open access papers, and peer reviewed articles. 

With R Discovery, not only can you do a literature search like on Google Scholar, refseek, Research Gate, or Academia.edu, but you can also let our AI generate a feed of relevant scholarly articles for you. We search, you read. It’s that simple!

R Discovery gives you access to:

• 100M+ Scholarly articles (journal articles, clinical trials, preprints & more)

• 39M+ Open access articles

• 2M+ Preprints from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and other preprint servers

• 9.5M+ Research topics

• 14M+ Authors

• 32,000+ Academic journals

• 25,000+ Institutions

• Content from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Unpaywall, OpenAlex, etc.

• Integrations with reference managers like Zotero, Mendeley

See how R Discovery helps you save time and improve your literature search and reading! 

Personalized research reading

Setup your feed to see top 100 research articles that match your interests and get daily reading recommendations. Customize your library or enjoy the benefits of an AI-driven feed that evolves to match your changing research reading interests.

Smart research summaries

Save time with research summaries, powered by Scholarcy, that lets you read key highlights of research papers to assess whether you should read the full-text article.

Unlock full-text papers with institutional access

Benefit from integrations with GetFTR and Libkey that let you use your university credentials to log in and access pay-walled journal articles for your thesis research.

Growing bank of open access journal articles

R Discovery has partnered with top publishers like Springer Nature and global research databases to create the largest open access library, with 39M+ open access articles across subject areas.

Most reliable, cleanest research database

Read scientific journals and scholarly articles from the most trustworthy database of global research papers. We take regular measures to remove duplicate papers eliminate ambiguities in journal, publisher and author names, and exclude predatory journal content from our research library.

Bookmark research papers

Save articles to your research library and get alerts about unread bookmarked research articles so you can keep up with your literature reading goals.

Sync with Zotero, Mendeley

Manage references by exporting research articles to Mendeley or Zotero. You can also login to R Discovery via your reference manager to get a tailored reading feed based on research paper topics in your library.

Accessible on both mobile and desktop

R Discovery academic research app for students and scholars is free to use and offers a seamless reading experience. 

New research alerts

Read research that matters with notifications on Just Published research papers, so you never miss out on the latest developments in your field.

R Discovery partners with academic journals and publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley, Springer Nature, IOP, Sage, Taylor & Francis, MDPI, PLOS, Hindawi, NEJM, AIAA, Karger and IEEE, to bring you articles across major research disciplines, such as:

1. Medical & Health Sciences

2. Life Sciences & Biology

3. Chemistry & Materials Science

4. Engineering & Computer Science

5. Physics & Mathematics

6. Social Sciences & Psychology

7. Earth Sciences & Geography

8. Arts & Humanities

9. Economics & Finance

10. Philosophy, Political Science & Environmental Science

R Discovery is the only platform you’ll need for your literature reading needs. Join our community of 2M+ academics and redefine the way you read. Start now!