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title: Ison Slate
description: "Ison Slate — the cited academic research workspace: 11 scholarly sources including Garuda and BPS, SJR/SINTA badges, BibTeX export, and the PDF Notebook."
last_verified: 2026-07-17
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# Ison Slate

**Ison Slate** ([slate.isonai.net](https://slate.isonai.net)) is the academic research workspace in the IsonAI family. Slate composes **cited research reports** by searching across 11 academic sources at once — including Indonesian sources rarely available in global tools.

## Sources

OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, CrossRef, EuropePMC, DOAJ, BASE, and CORE — plus two key differentiators: **Garuda** (Indonesian journals) and **BPS** (official Indonesian statistics). For Indonesian topics, Slate surfaces far more SINTA-accredited local journals than international indexes do.

## Capabilities

- **Cited reports** with a numbered bibliography and DOI links.
- **Citation export** in APA, MLA, Chicago, numeric, and **BibTeX** (for Zotero/Mendeley).
- **Journal-quality badges** — SJR quartiles (Q1–Q4) for international journals, SINTA ranks (1–6) for Indonesian journals.
- **Consensus analysis** — each paper is classified as supporting/contradicting/mixed relative to the research question.
- **Evidence synthesis** — a narrative summary of where the bulk of the evidence points, along with divergent findings and methodological notes.
- **Follow-up Q&A** that keeps citing the report's sources.
- **Notebook** — upload PDFs (up to 50 MB per file) and ask questions with page-level quotations.
- **Library** — save, search again (full text), group into collections, share via link, continue and revise research.

## How to use it

1. Open [slate.isonai.net](https://slate.isonai.net) and sign in with your IsonAI account.
2. Write a research title or question.
3. Choose a depth: **Quick** (± 500 words), **Standard** (± 1,500 words), or **Deep** (3,000+ words).
4. Via **Advanced**: report language (Indonesian/English), audience (academic/policy/general), citation style.
5. **"Open full setup →"** for the full configuration — including selecting up to 10 **grounding sources** ("Find academic sources"), uploading PDF/DOCX/text (up to 25 MB per file), or pasting URLs, arXiv IDs, and DOIs.
6. Press **"Begin Research"**.

## Slate vs Deep Research

- **Slate**: full academic reports — journals, quality badges, BibTeX. For literature reviews, undergraduate/graduate theses, policy briefs.
- **[Deep Research](/en/deep-research/)**: deep-diving a topic from general web sources, right in the chat conversation.

Slate does not import chat conversations automatically; distill your discussion into a single research question (you can ask IsonAI to summarize it), or upload the summary as a grounding source.

## Quota

Slate has daily usage limits per research depth based on your account plan; the limits are shown in the interface. Slate runs on the [Omni](/en/models/) tier.

## Limits

- The Notebook currently accepts PDF files.
- Coverage depends on the academic source indexes; paywalled articles are reachable only through their metadata and abstracts.

## Related

- [Deep Research](/en/deep-research/)
- [Search & grounding](/en/search/)