It’s the best scholarly tool I’ve seen so far, in terms of its practical usage!
Shervin Safavi, Researcher at Max Planck Institute
Germany
Sciwheel is becoming…
Lean Library Workspace
An end-to-end research tool that makes referencing simple, collaboration effortless and authoring easier, with unlimited projects and cloud-based storage. It puts the library at the heart of every research journey to help students and researchers write, cite and author work smarter, faster.
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groups at your institution
libraries
Positions your library as a patron services provider
Embeds your library in a core stage of your patrons’ workflow to support information literacy efforts and increase research output.
faculty
Where faculty research comes together
Faculty can share article and projects more easily for faster and more effective authoring and publishing.
students
Improves the student experience
As the easiest-to-use referencing tool, Lean Library Workspace teaches best practice for citation and referencing.
Key features
Instantly save references from the web
Save references directly from the web, including Google Scholar and PubMed. Whenever you come across an interesting article we’ll save the web link, full citation data and the PDF (when available).
Highlight and add notes to PDFs and webpages
You can see your notes and co-author comments without leaving your document. Once you make a note, you can easily search to find them. Notes are accessible wherever you view the article or PDF on the web.
Get AI recommended relevant articles
Our algorithm suggests articles to ensure you never miss an important paper. You can also search for related articles while writing your paper.
Access all you need to write your paper in one location
Find your references and search multiple databases, all within Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Automatically generate your bibliography in one of 7,000+ styles. Never miss an important article with Smart citation suggestions*.
Access references and PDFs from any device
Read, annotate and save articles from any computer, mobile or tablet (Android and iOS). Have all your references, notes and suggested articles available across your devices.
Why choose Lean Library Workspace?
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Easy authentication
Works with all major methods, including IP, SSO and more.
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Gain deeper insights into research workflows
Provides the library with institution-wide statistics for insights into their users and previously unseen parts of the research workflow.
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Google Docs and Microsoft Word Add-Ins
Enable academics to cite as they write with their preferred writing software.
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Alumni access
For researchers, continued access to their reference library is key – for when they join or move on from your institution. We guarantee that access.
How it Works
Part of the Lean Library offering
Lean Library Workspace is part of our Lean Library offering. Get in touch with a sales rep below to learn which package best suits your institution.
Library subscription
Libraries subscribe for institution-wide authenticated use of the Lean Library Workspace website (and accompanying Lean Library extension and Google Docs & Microsoft Word plug-ins) and get usage statistics for their institution.
Individual or lab group options
We also offer an individual subscription option for sole researchers and group subscriptions for labs or corporates looking to subscribe multiple users to Lean Library Workspace.
speak to a sales repUser Stories
case study
Using Lean Library Workspace in forensic nursing research
In this story, Jocelyn Anderson shares how she first learned about Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) and how it has helped her research.
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case study
The productive power of Lean Library Workspace
Leonardo Pegollo explains how Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) has been instrumental to his work and studies, and why he’s so eager to recommend our service to others.
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Don’t just take
our word for it
It’s much faster and immeasurably easier than any other software I’ve used, and allows you to search online archives, like PubMed, as well as your own library, in the same window.
Claire Sand, PhD
Queen Mary University, UK
The ability to highlight key points and add notes directly on the article means that when I write up my own research, I can quickly and easily find the relevant articles in my database.
Fiona Russell, Postgraduate Research Associate
Kings College London, UK
Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) helps save time by allowing me to directly upload PDFs of articles and their associated supplementary data. This saves me at least two minutes searching for each individual article PDF – these two minutes quickly add up when using over 100 articles for a project multiple times a day!
Gustavo Gavrel Pacheco, MD/PhD student
University of Virginia School of Medicine
(Previously), having to upload and download the files from Google to Word to work on the file as a team then work on the references – and not being able to have everyone see or edit the references in real-time was definitely annoying. With Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) being able to work with friends and colleagues geographically divided, on a paper or grant and have the references be up-to-date is so fabulous.
Jocelyn Anderson, Lean Library Workspace User and Professor
Penn State University
One of the best benefits of Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) is the personalised referencing. Lean Library Workspace responded to customer feedback and got this issue fixed right away. Now that’s resolved, I wish I had a time machine to use Lean Library Workspace for my projects.
Samantha Sharman, Graduate Student
University of Lincoln
Lean Library Workspace (formerly Sciwheel) is very intuitive to use. Most of our students take to it very quickly. Lean Library Workspace has been extremely responsive in their support, often resolving queries or issues in the same class session. That’s been very important to us.
Barbara Rochen Renner, PhD Professor, Allied Health Sciences Librarian
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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