Paper Triage

So now we’re talking about the different things that can happen when you upload papers.  I just put a bunch of PDFs into my Labmeeting collection and the result looked like this:

Some PDFs were not recognized, some were. Of the ones that were recognized, one was already in my collection, and the other was successfully added.

A few different things happened.  Two of the PDFs were recognized by Labmeeting off the bat.  One of them was already in my collection, so nothing interesting happens there.  The other is new to my collection, which means that now when I go to my collection, the most recently added record looks like:

The most recently added record was recognized and associated with a rich structure of data from PubMed about the paper.

Now I am off to the races with this paper: I can read it, recommend it, tag it, write notes about it for myself, etc.

What happens, though, when a paper is not recognized?  In that case, you want to click on “Enter citation information manually” on the upload page.  That takes you to a page that looks like:

To identify the paper, carry out a search of pubmed based information from the PDF

Select the record corresponding to your paper.

On this page, you can either search PubMed to help Labmeeting identify the corresponding record, or you can put in information manually that will help you search your collection for the PDF in the future.

Using Labmeeting: Uploading and Matching

It’s been a while since we blogged here, and we thought the best thing we could do for our users is start writing some posts that help explain and clarify all the different useful things you can do on Labmeeting.

Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is adding a paper to your collection.  Labmeeting allows you to take the jumble of PDFs on your hard drive and make sense of them.

You start on your Labmeeting Dashboard and click on "upload a paper"

Then you select a file for uploading by first clicking on the "Upload" button. You can select multiple PDFs by using Shift+click

First the file uploads . . .

Then Labmeeting tries to figure out what citation the PDF corresponds to in PubMed

The simplest thing that can happen is that the citation matches correctly and automatically to the PDF, and you’re off to the races.  Next time, we’ll discuss the various cases in detail, since some of them are more complicated.