Research-grade literature search, reference review, and discovery
litlas brings literature search, reference management, summaries, citation graphs, and boards into one calmer workspace for serious knowledge work.
Research-grade search
Start with a title or author query, then continue into BibTeX, summaries, and graph context in a calmer single-column workspace.
litlas design principles
The interface favors clarity, structure, speed, and trust over visual noise.
Service coverage map
litlas blends reference-management workflows, graph discovery, and AI-assisted paper exploration in one product surface.
Zotero / EndNote / Paperpile / Mendeley / RefWorks / Citavi / ReadCube Papers
Saved library, tags, notes, BibTeX / RIS / JSON import + exportMigration and ongoing reference operations stay inside the litlas library surface.
Connected Papers / ResearchRabbit / Litmaps
Relationship graph, boards, and related-paper visibilityGraph exploration stays connected to saving and summarizing papers.
Elicit / Google Scholar
semantic / hybrid search, chat exploration, and paper summariesNatural-language prompts flow into ranked papers, summaries, and next actions.
OpenReview / Semantic Scholar / Crossref / DBLP / arXiv / PubMed families
16 source connectors plus a pipeline ledgerlitlas treats ingest, normalization, and derived search rebuilding as part of the product surface.
Pricing
Lite / Standard / Pro cover individual use, team workflows, and lab-scale discovery.
Stack targets
The public UI runs on Next.js, the API on FastAPI, and the durable full-DBLP catalog lives on a dedicated ConoHa VPS with Postgres + Alembic.
Target deployment architecture
Paper boards
Boards become the entry point for focused discovery, saving, and AI-assisted exploration.
Search + chat
Search results now open on a dedicated Search page instead of being buried low on the landing page.
Switch between keyword / semantic / hybrid search, then save, summarize, and graph the strongest matches in place.
Search results now open on a dedicated Search page instead of being buried low on the landing page.
Saved library
Save, remove, tag, note, export, and import references without leaving the litlas surface.
Import from existing reference managers
Paste BibTeX / RIS / JSON to match known papers and bring them into the litlas library.
Relationship graph
Connected Papers / ResearchRabbit style graph discovery lives beside the saved library.
16 source connectors
Source discovery is registry-driven and flows through raw / norm / canon / ops.
