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Describe the topic you are building a bibliography for and Anara searches a 240-million-paper academic index, returns real papers with verified DOIs, and proposes a set for you to approve and import. Every result is a paper that exists. For researchers starting a new project or filling gaps in an existing library.

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1. Describe the task

A new project means a new literature hunt. You could spend a morning in Google Scholar, opening tabs, chasing citations, losing track of what you already have. Or you could describe what you are trying to build and let Anara run the search. Anara searches a 240-million-paper academic index covering peer-reviewed publications from every major field, alongside PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv for biomedical and life sciences topics. It returns papers that actually exist: each result comes with a verified DOI, a PDF availability flag confirmed at search time, and the information you need to judge relevance before importing. When you are ready, Anara proposes a set of papers to import and you approve which ones go into your library. Nothing is added without your review. The workflow is an entry point. The papers you import here are what every subsequent research conversation draws from. A clean, well-organized starting library changes the quality of every question you ask afterward. Here a master’s student in public health is starting a systematic literature review on salt reduction policy interventions in low-income countries and needs a working bibliography before her proposal meeting. 
I am starting a literature review on dietary salt reduction policies in low-income and middle-income countries. I need peer-reviewed papers covering: (1) population-level sodium reduction interventions, (2) industry reformulation agreements, and (3) health outcome data from published trials or national programs. Focus on papers from the last ten years. Search PubMed and the general academic index. Return up to 20 papers sorted by relevance, with a one-sentence summary of what each one covers.

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2. Give Anara context

Required context
  • Nothing to upload. The prompt carries it.
Optional context
  • Key authors or research groups you already know are relevant. Anara prioritizes papers from named sources.
  • Specific journals or databases you want to include or exclude.
  • A date range if you want only recent publications or only foundational older work.

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3. What Anara creates

A ranked list of real papers, each with title, authors, year, DOI, and a brief relevance note. Papers with PDFs confirmed available are flagged so you know which ones you can import directly. You review the list, select the papers you want, and Anara imports them into your library. From that point, every chat about your topic can draw from this library with grounded citations.

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4. Follow-up prompts

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Find the most-cited papers on this topic

When you want to anchor your review in the foundational literature before looking at recent work. 
Find the five most-cited papers on population-level salt reduction interventions published before 2015. I want the papers that shaped the field, not the most recent ones.

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Search for papers that cite a specific study

When you have found a key paper and want to trace what built on it. 
Find papers that cite the 2010 Bibbins-Domingo et al. paper on sodium intake and cardiovascular risk. Show me which directions the subsequent literature has taken.

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Organize imports into a folder

Once the papers are in your library, give them a home before you start working with them. 
Create a folder called "Salt Reduction Review" and move all the papers I just imported into it. Then run a quick summary across the folder so I can see what I have before I start reading.

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5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

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How you word your prompt shapes what you get

Describe the argument or question you are building toward, not the topic alone. “Find papers on salt reduction” returns a broad set. “Find papers on the effectiveness of industry reformulation agreements as a salt reduction mechanism in low-income countries” returns a narrower, more targeted set that is directly usable. If you are building a systematic review, include the PICO framing in your search prompt: it structures the query the same way your eventual inclusion criteria will be structured. For biomedical topics, name PubMed explicitly and Anara will prioritize that index.

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Check the output against your own understanding

Anara returns real papers with verified DOIs. It will not generate a paper that does not exist. What it may do is return papers that are adjacent to what you need rather than directly on point. Read the one-sentence relevance summaries before approving imports. If a paper looks off-topic from the summary, ask Anara to quote the abstract before you add it to your library. Papers with no PDF available can still be imported as metadata entries, but the full text will not be searchable until you add the PDF manually.

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What to do with the output next

Once your import is approved and the papers are in your library, run the cross-library search: ask Anara what the collected papers say about your central research question. This turns the bibliography from a list into a working literature you can question. If you are building toward a systematic review, the next step is systematic extraction: apply a fixed data extraction template to each paper one at a time.