Terms of Service

By using EvidenceScope, you agree to these terms. Please read them carefully.

1. Service description

EvidenceScope is a free, web-based platform for biomedical literature search and screening, with optional AI assistance (query building, PICO extraction, grounded Q&A). It searches public databases (PubMed, Europe PMC) and uses Anthropic Claude for AI features.

2. Use cases

EvidenceScope is intended for:

• Researchers preparing literature reviews, scoping reviews, or evidence tables
• Clinicians researching evidence on a topic
• PhD students and academics exploring literature
• Educational use

It is not intended as a clinical decision-support tool, a replacement for systematic review methodology (Cochrane, PRISMA-compliant SRs), or for making individual patient decisions.

3. Free service

EvidenceScope has no paid plans. Search, filter, screen, and export are unlimited and require no account. AI-assisted features (query builder, PICO enrich, Ask literature) require signing in with Google and are subject to a generous daily fair-use cap per person, shown in the app, so the service stays sustainable without ads or a paywall.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the service for any illegal purpose
• Attempt to access other users' data or sessions
• Reverse engineer, scrape, or systematically extract data from the platform beyond your normal usage
• Resell or redistribute AI-generated outputs as your own work without disclosure
• Submit copyrighted content you don't have rights to
• Overload the platform with excessive automated requests, or attempt to circumvent the daily AI fair-use cap

5. AI-generated content

AI features (AI query builder, AI Enrich/PICO, Ask literature, figure data extraction) produce output based on the articles or question you provide. You are responsible for verifying the accuracy of AI-generated content before using it. EvidenceScope makes no warranty about the accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose of AI output.

Ask literature citations are real PMIDs from the abstracts it retrieved for your question — but the interpretation and synthesis are AI-generated and must be checked against the original papers.

6. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of your search queries, screening decisions, and any data you input. AI-generated content is provided to you for your use; if you publish it, you should attribute EvidenceScope as the synthesis tool used and verify all claims.

Article metadata, abstracts, and PMIDs are sourced from PubMed (public domain in the US; consult NLM terms for use). Journal impact metrics from OpenAlex, SCImago, and iCite remain property of their respective providers.

7. Liability

EvidenceScope is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. We are not liable for any damages arising from use of the service, including but not limited to errors in AI output, missed articles, or downstream decisions made based on the output.

You assume full responsibility for verification of all results before clinical, research, or publication use.

8. Account and termination

You may delete your account at any time by emailing info@evidencescope.com. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

9. Changes

We may update these terms occasionally. Continued use after changes implies acceptance.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Disputes will be resolved in Dutch courts.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email info@evidencescope.com.