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To sign up to Laser AI, you will need to ask someone in your organisation who is responsible for setting up projects to create your individual account. Once you have received your login and temporary password by email, log in. You will be asked to create your own password.
If you have forgotten your password, click on 'Forgot password?’ and follow the instructions.
Right after logging in, you will see a list of projects of which you are a member. Projects are organized in folders.
To manage projects or folders select dot menu at the end of the row. In this settings you can change their details, archive or delete them. The folder will be deleted with all the projects in it. Side navigation panel consists of Project, Users, Highlights Library, Vocabularies and Templates. The level of access you have to organisational assets will be determined by your role within the organisation.
In the upper part of a panel you will find a place to search for projects. In the search bar you can search for particular projects or folders if you have multiple. You can also select certain projects according to their status (All projects/ Projects I’m on/ Projects with my tasks). You can also sort through your projects and folders here by starting with the latest first all sorting it from A to Z.
To start a new project, please click the 'Create project' button. To add a new folder click ‘Create folder’ button or provide the name of a new folder in the window where you create projects.
Click on your user account icon (coloured circle with initials in the top right corner). Select 'Feedback' from the drop down list. If you want to ask for help, report a problem, or have any improvement ideas, please let the Laser AI team know via this form. You can also add a screenshot of the current state of the application if necessary (option selected by default).
Please provide a few details in description so that our team can help you efficiently.
To create a new project, select 'Create project' from the Main panel and add some relevant details:
You can set a standard workflow (i.e. Title and abstract screening followed by Full-text screening), but you may also customise your workflow and select among four stages according to your preferences and needs.
The Project dashboard contains the most relevant data required for the proper project management:
There are two views that you can select to manage your references:
References list
To open the References list click on ‘Reference list’ in the side navigation panel (on the left) or select ‘References’ from the Project dashboard.
On the right, you can access all the references uploaded into a project. You can use the chevrons (▼▲) to sort your results by publication date, name or title, etc. From any reference, you can jump directly to the Reference details view. If you want to check the abstract or other bibliographic data of a particular reference without entering Reference details, you can preview it by clicking on the reference and choosing ‘Bibliographic data’.
On the left, you can use filters to sort the results. On the upper side of the screen, you will find buttons for importing references, exporting them and uploading PDFs.
Reference details
To open Reference details, double-click on the selected reference.
As a manager, you can see all reference details, MeSH terms and the current status of the reference. By clicking the 'Modify' tab, you can:
Overwriting decisions is not available when researchers are currently working on a record. This means that this action is only available at the end of a stage, before distribution in the next stage, if applicable.
In the Comment tab you can provide information that will be visible for Researchers in next stages. Commenting , like overwriting decision, can be added before the distribution or at the end of the stage.
List of all the changes is available in the History tab.
In this view, you can also add a PDF to a specific reference (or more than one, e.g. protocol or appendix).