SciSpace AcademyLevel: Beginner · 5 lessons
A short course for new users. By the end you will know how to search, read, organise and ask questions of research papers in SciSpace, and how to prompt SciSpace Agent for multi-step research tasks.
EN35 minUse SciSpace as a sequence rather than opening every tool at once: define the question, discover and compare papers with Literature Review, save useful sources in Library, and interrogate individual papers with Chat with PDF. Use SciSpace Agent only when the work has multiple connected stages, and verify source passages, methods, and numbers before exporting the result.
EN36 minUse SciSpace Agent when the deliverable requires several connected actions, not for a single lookup. Give it a written brief that names the question, sources, constraints, deliverables, and review checkpoints; inspect its plan and intermediate files before allowing a large search or analysis. Accept the final result only after checking pivotal papers, calculations, exclusions, and missing information.
EN37 minIn SciSpace, a strong academic-research prompt states the goal, evidence boundary, context, output format, and verification rule. Include the key concepts, population or source set, time range, and fields you need compared. Ask for citations or source passages for consequential claims, and separate extracted evidence from interpretation. Test the prompt on a small sample before scaling the task.
EN3 minUse SciSpace Library to organize a literature review around the decisions you need to make, not around a random folder of PDFs. Create a consistent project structure, import and deduplicate papers, tag them by theme and review status, store source-linked notes, and maintain a comparison matrix that can be reused during synthesis and writing.
EN3 minSciSpace Chat with PDF is most useful when you ask structured, source-checkable questions. Start with the paper’s objective, design, sample, variables, and main finding; request the passage supporting each answer; then examine assumptions, effect estimates, limitations, and relevance to your own question. Verify critical details in the PDF before citing them.