Alexandria 0.8.1

Alexandria is a application for managing a local store of scientific papers.
Typically starting with a directory of PDFs, it extracts metadata (title,
authors, year, DOI, journal) from the text of the PDF, consults CrossRef and
OpenAlex, then presents a searchable, filterable card browser.
Alexandria tries to make it easy to find and add related papers.

• Full-text search across title, authors, abstract, DOI and journal

• Citation counts and per-year sparklines from OpenAlex

• Built-in PDF viewer with highlight and comment annotations,
and click-through citation links that jump to the reference

• A viewer sidebar with the paper's table of contents, page
thumbnails and your highlights

• Structured full text (JATS XML) fetched from Europe PMC and
stored beside the PDF

• Authors window: a persistent trail of the authors you follow,
with their works, collaborators, funding and affiliation history

• Journal and topic subscriptions, flagging new papers by
authors you have looked up before

• BibTeX, RIS and CSL export; BibTeX and DOI import

• Preprint detection (arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv and more)

• Duplicate detection by DOI and file hash, with supporting
information recognised as belonging to its parent paper

• An MCP server, so an AI assistant you already use can search
and read your library — no model or API key inside the app

• Sidecar JSON metadata lives next to each PDF - so it's easily
transportable

License: GPL-3.0-or-later