# End-user guide

## Real scholarly search
1. Open the **Literature discovery** page.
2. Enter your actual research topic, choose **Crossref**, set a year range and click **Search literature**.
3. Each result is **bibliographic metadata only**. Click **+ Add to library** to curate it.
4. In **Evidence library**, review the saved papers and remove irrelevant items.
5. In **Evidence studio**, choose a saved paper; paste short permitted excerpts or original research notes **after consulting the paper yourself**. Click **Extract evidence** to highlight matching sentences.
6. Use **Research map** to inspect year coverage, title terms, overlap and metadata completeness.
7. In **Export & methods**, download your session as JSON, plus CSV/BibTeX/RIS/Markdown as needed.
8. To resume, select your exported `.json` under **RESTORE PREVIOUSLY EXPORTED SESSION** and click the import button.

## Testing with no API access
Select **Load fictional demo** on Literature discovery. It inserts six deliberately fictional publications. This confirms that controls work but the records are not suitable for academic citation.

## DOI lookup
Paste a known DOI and click **Lookup & save DOI**. If the public service cannot respond, an error appears, and no fabricated metadata is inserted.

## Citation quality note
Always verify title, authors, year, journal/book type, DOI and exact claim against the source. The tool is not a systematic-review screening service, plagiarism detector, fact checker, evidence quality grading system or autonomous literature-review writer.

## Privacy
Do not paste passwords or confidential third-party content. The app stores your session only in browser memory and downloads. Live searches send queries to an external metadata provider, but your handwritten notes are not sent to a backend.