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open papers for deep search

When your library
runs out.

Deep search finds open-access papers in OpenAlex, screens them against your question, and with your OK brings them in and answers from them. Every upload is matched to its published record, too.

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Live from OpenAlex: the same search deep search runs, open-access papers with a PDF copy only.

Follow one paper.

From one small action to what you see,
each step opened in the code.

  1. 1

    Deep search asks OpenAlex.

    Up to three searches, open-access papers with a PDF copy only: OpenAlex fetched 10 of 10 of those, where publisher links managed 2 of 20.

  2. 2

    The best are shortlisted.

    Abstracts are screened against your question in Markovian steps; at most eight sources reach you, best first.

  3. 3

    You approve, it's brought in.

    The PDF comes from OpenAlex's own copy, and is checked to be a PDF, not a login page.

  4. 4

    It arrives with its citation.

    Authors, venue, year and cited-by, found by DOI, then arXiv id, then a title close enough to be the same paper.

OpenAlex in Konkyo

Where it
shows up.

Specific jobs in the app.
Each one has a place you can point to.

Every upload, identified.

Each file you add is matched to its published record, and its details say how: by DOI, arXiv id or title.

Watches for new papers.

Watch a topic and new open-access papers land in your Inbox, five at most each run.

Free copies, best first.

For a DOI, arXiv first, then every open copy OpenAlex knows with a PDF link. No free copy means Konkyo says so instead of saving an abstract page.

Licences for articles.

Before an article shows a paper's figure, OpenAlex says whether its licence is open.

A closer look.

The choices behind the behaviour.
Open whichever part you're curious about.

The key stays in a header

The API key goes in a header, never the URL, because URLs end up in logs. Each call has an 8-second timeout.

Through Zetaris, or direct

A watch reads OpenAlex through its Zetaris REST table; if that fails, the same search runs directly.

Newest, with a PDF

A watch's search matches the topic in title and abstract, newest first, open access with a PDF copy, 25 at a time.

Searches a day

A deep search downloads papers at $0.01 each, so guests get 3 a day and accounts 20.