Literature Search is the starting point for adding studies to your nest. In this module, you can:

• Execute Searches of the PubMed database directly via API.
• Import RIS Files containing study metadata from searches on other databases (e.g. Embase).
• Set an Update Schedule for API-based searches.

To support your Search creation, we also offer the following search building features:

• Search Exploration, where you can add terms of interest and expand on your initial ideas based on AI recommendations of additional terms and review of candidate studies.
• Query Builder, where you can turn your Search Exploration outputs into a Boolean query and review the automatically generated code.

In addition to API-based searches and RIS Import, we offer two methods for adding studies directly to a nest:

• Adding Studies Individually based on DOI, PMID, or manual entry of metadata, and
• Bibliomining the references from the PDFs of existing reviews or studies.

We automatically import metadata and run a de-duplication algorithm to ensure we save only one version of each study. In order to check both the metadata and deduplication, you can use:

• Duplicate Review: Examine and edit the outputs of our de-duplication algorithm.
• Edit References: Edit the metadata of studies.