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About Athena

Athena is a research paper library that goes beyond storage. Upload your PDFs or import by DOI, and Athena automatically extracts metadata, enriches it from academic databases, builds citation graphs, and powers semantic search across your collection.

The goal is simple: researchers accumulate hundreds of papers but struggle to keep them useful. Athena turns a pile of PDFs into a structured, searchable, connected research environment.

Built by

Athena is designed and built by Xavier Rojas — a researcher who got tired of losing papers in folders and wanted a tool that actually understands what's in the library.

Technology

  • Python / FastAPI backend with per-user SQLite databases
  • GROBID for PDF structure extraction
  • OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv for metadata enrichment
  • SPECTER embeddings for semantic search
  • AI-powered classification and tagging

Contact

Email: [email protected]

Website: athenalib.org

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