Folder Share: Your Own Shared Research Space in SciSpace

TL;DR: Folder Share lets you share any folder in SciSpace with your team. That folder becomes your own shared research space. Everyone can add papers, work with a specialised research agent, and write together in notebooks. However, your own chats stay private only to you.

Good research is rarely a solo effort. Across 19.9 million papers, the average science paper grew from 1.9 to 3.5 authors over 45 years, and research collaboration keeps crossing borders too.

But a project's papers usually end up scattered across reference managers, downloads, folders, and email threads. A new teammate can read the final draft without seeing the evidence behind it.

So, we built Folder Share to fix that. Starting today, any folder in SciSpace can become your team's own shared research space: where your team and a specialised research agent work from the same papers.

1. Share any folder with your team, so everyone can add papers and build the folder together.
2. Hand complex research tasks to a specialised research agent that works across every paper in the folder, not one PDF at a time.
3. Keep your own chats private, even inside a shared folder.

Let a specialised research agent get your complex research tasks done

Imagine your lab keeps a folder called "CRISPR delivery methods." Select all the PDFs in it and ask the research agent:

"Create a comprehensive report comparing the delivery methods in these papers, including reported editing efficiency and the limitations the authors note."

You get one report built from papers your team has already vetted, instead of summarizing them one by one.

Reports are just one task. The specialized research agent can also run literature reviews and citation checks on a folder, or draft manuscripts and presentations from it.

Write together in shared notebooks

When the agent produces something worth noting, save it to your notebook. Notebooks live inside the folder, so your co-authors can edit the content, fix citations, and format it to journal guidelines with you.

Your notes and their sources stay together in one space, not scattered across email drafts.

Files and Notebooks are shared with everyone you invite. Your Chats stay visible only to you.

Bring new teammates into the space faster

A new lab member opens the shared folder, sees the papers and notebooks behind the work, and asks the research agent their own questions privately. It works for lab groups, supervisors and PhD students, systematic review teams, and more alike.

How to set up your shared research space

1. Create a new folder in SciSpace library and upload PDFs or bring papers in with Zotero Import.

1. Select all the PDFs/pick the relevant ones and ask the agent to create a comprehensive report from them.

1. Click Share at the top of the folder.

1. Enter your teammates' emails, set their access, and click Invite.

Once they accept the email invite, they can see the folder's files and notebooks, but not your chats.

We want every SciSpace folder to be a space where your team's papers, questions, and drafts build on each other. It's the next step in how SciSpace supports collaborative research, and in building research collaboration tools around the papers themselves.

Frequently asked questions

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