ES/IODE Plans¶
ES/IODE combines public workflows that can be used without an account and advanced features associated with an account or plan. This distinction matters for research teams: it clarifies what can be evaluated immediately, what requires authentication, and what belongs to an academic or institutional use case.
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Public access¶
Public pages provide the main entry points: scientific article search, clinical trial search, scientific news, scientific journal, science picture, and a public SciScholarCraft path. These areas help users assess indexed content, filtering, navigation, and result quality before adopting more advanced workflows.
For scientific users, public access is useful to test a research question, verify whether a DOI is recognized, compare bibliographic results, inspect coverage in a field, and identify the visible limits of the interface.
Accounts, quotas, and limits¶
Some actions may be limited by quotas or access rights. When a limit is reached, the site may display a restriction message or ask the user to sign in. These limits mainly concern resource-intensive functions, including AI assistants, structured generation, saved projects, or repeated processing.
For a laboratory team, it is useful to separate three usage levels: occasional consultation, recurring literature exploration, and structured production in SciScholarCraft. The requirements are different when a user checks a reference, prepares a literature review, or builds a scientific writing project.
Academic features¶
SciScholarCraft features related to projects, hypothesis generation, study selection, and writing plans may require the Academic offer when they are not publicly available. This documentation does not describe protected screens as if they were freely accessible; it only states the expected role of these features when that role is publicly visible or already documented.
Practical checks¶
Before choosing a plan, identify the workflows your team actually needs: keyword search, DOI search, clinical trials, scientific news monitoring, daily journal selections, or SciScholarCraft. For shared use, also consider traceability, reproducibility, and the way results will be reviewed or shared inside the team.