How to build an Academic & Research Papers AI Agent

Description and use

Users can unify search and reading of academic papers from five sources using Valyu API in TypeScript.

Problem

Researchers need to locate, read, and compare academic papers from multiple scholarly sources efficiently.

Outcome

The agent can search across five major preprint and journal collections, retrieve paper metadata and full text, and provide evidence for downstream models.

Workflow

• Install valyu-js SDK
• Set VALYU_API_KEY
• Create Valyu client
• Define searchPapers function for a single source
• Call searchPapers with query
• Define searchAllPapers for multiple sources
• Call searchAllPapers with query
• Define readPaper function using valyu.contents
• Call readPaper with paper URL
• Process returned content

Evidence

Install the Valyu SDK: npm install [email protected]

Source

searchPapers("Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction benchmarks")

Source

searchAllPapers uses includedSources: ["valyu/valyu-arxiv","valyu/valyu-pubmed","valyu/valyu-biorxiv","valyu/valyu-chemrxiv","valyu/valyu-medrxiv"]

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