Do not index
Do not index
In this post, I’ll walk through an example of how to use Epsilon to compare and contrast insights from multiple papers at once.
Let’s pretend that I’m a researcher studying the effects of remote work. For an upcoming report, I’d like to better understand how return to office policies affect overall employee satisfaction and productivity.
I’ll start by creating a new library since I’ll want to collect several relevant papers on this topic.
I’ll then navigate to “Find Papers” and enter the search term Effect of remote work on productivity.
Looking through the papers, I see several that could yield interesting insights. For articles that are publicly available, Epsilon allows you to download these directly to your library using the ‘+’ button on the right side. For the others, you can still click the link and use any existing credentials that you have to add these articles manually. I’ll select a few, and add them to the library that I made.
Once I’ve added a few papers, I can click on my library on the left side bar and view the contents.
Now I can begin my analysis. I’d like to understand the main findings of each of the papers, so I’ll write in the search bar at the top, What are the main findings of this paper.
Here I can see that Epsilon has provided a bullet point summary with content related to my query. After scrolling through the summaries to compare and contrast the findings, I notice that this first paper directly acknowledges the tradeoff between increased productivity and social isolation. I’d like to cite this in my report, so I click on the box with the summary to view the raw citations from the source content.
I’d love to jump into the source text to better understand the context in which it was written. To do so, I can click on the arrow in the top right corner of the citation which will point me to the sentence where the paragraph begins:
Finally, I’m satisfied that this is a good finding to include, so I navigate back to Epsilon and press the “Copy Citation” button at the bottom of the citation source.
Through this process, I’ve sped up the time it takes me to find relevant information I need for my report! I can continue with other questions to easily further dive into content from these papers. Or if I find that there is content missing, I can easily go back to the “Find Papers” tab to include more content.
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