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Alexandria v0.8.1
Personal library of scientific PDFs
From Flathub, not verified with cpak
This app comes from Flathub and has not been tested with cpak yet. cpak checks it against the Flathub signing key and runs it in its own sandbox, without Flatpak on the system, but some features may not work. How Flathub apps work in cpak
Alexandria is a application for managing a local store of scientific papers. Typically starting with a directory of PDFs, it extracts metadata (title, authors, year, DOI, journal) from the text of the PDF, consults CrossRef and OpenAlex, then presents a searchable, filterable card browser. Alexandria tries to make it easy to find and add related papers.
- Full-text search across title, authors, abstract, DOI and journal
- Citation counts and per-year sparklines from OpenAlex
- Built-in PDF viewer with highlight and comment annotations, and click-through citation links that jump to the reference
- A viewer sidebar with the paper's table of contents, page thumbnails and your highlights
- Structured full text (JATS XML) fetched from Europe PMC and stored beside the PDF
- Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow, with their works, collaborators, funding and affiliation history
- Journal and topic subscriptions, flagging new papers by authors you have looked up before
- BibTeX, RIS and CSL export; BibTeX and DOI import
- Preprint detection (arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv and more)
- Duplicate detection by DOI and file hash, with supporting information recognised as belonging to its parent paper
- An MCP server, so an AI assistant you already use can search and read your library — no model or API key inside the app
- Sidecar JSON metadata lives next to each PDF - so it's easily transportable
Package details
- Application ID
- io.github.pemsley.Alexandria
- Source
- Flathub
- Developer
- Paul Emsley
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
