Today, we are launching the Google Scholar PDF Reader to enhance your paper reading. It brings the familiar ease and seamlessness of Scholar to reading PDF papers. In-text citations are now links – with one click, you will see a preview of the cited article and often a version you can read. All of this without losing your place in the paper.
I haven’t tried the Google Scholar PDF Reader extension yet, but it looks like it might be useful so I’m sharing it here for anyone who uses Scholar and is looking for a slightly simpler way to engage with the service.
- Preview references as you read. Click the in-text citation to see a summary and find the PDF.
- Read faster with the AI outline. Get a quick overview and click on interesting bullets to jump within the paper.
- Click in-text figure mentions to see the figure and the back button to keep reading.
- Make it right for your eyes with light, dark, and night modes.
- Copy and paste common citation formats without leaving the paper.
- Save articles to your Scholar Library to read or cite later.

You can install the Google Scholar PDF Reader extension from the Chrome Web Store.
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