RepoLens

RepoLens is a web app (with a lightweight browser extension) that helps researchers and librarians quickly locate the “best available” version of a paper, dataset, or thesis across institutional repositories, preprint servers, and open-access mirrors. You paste a title/DOI/URL, and it returns a ranked list of matches with license status, version (preprint/accepted/published), repository trust signals, and one-click citations. An AI layer summarizes the abstract, flags potential retractions/expressions of concern, and highlights mismatched metadata (author/year/journal) that often breaks citations. This is not a general search engine replacement; it’s a workflow tool for verification and citation hygiene. The product lives or dies by metadata quality and integrations, so the MVP focuses on a narrow set of repositories and high-confidence matching rather than “indexing the whole internet.”