The Icecite Research Paper Management System

We present Icecite, a new fully web-based research paper management system (RPMS). Icecite facilitates the following otherwise laborious and time-consuming steps typically involved in literature research: automatic metadata and reference extraction, on-click reference downloading, shared annotations, offline availability, and full-featured search in metadata, full texts, and annotations. None of the many existing RPMSs provides this feature set. For the metadata and reference extraction, we use a rule-based approach combined with an index-based approximate search on a given reference database. An extensive quality evaluation, using DBLP and PubMed as reference databases, shows extraction accuracies of above 95%. We also provide a small user study, comparing Icecite to the state-of-the-art RPMS Mendeley as well as to an RPMS-free baseline.