What is new in BRIDGE, October 2026

A summary of what changed in BRIDGE up to 13 October 2026, for people who use BRIDGE rather than build it.

A new name

LitReview is now BRIDGE, short for Broadening Research Inquiry to Discover Gaps and Evidence. The product is the same: every statement in a review still leads back to a verbatim quote from a paper it actually retrieved.

A guided tour through the whole product

The tour walks one story from asking a question to reading the report, comparing papers, checking a repo, writing with the AI and finding your work again. It runs on a sample review that has already finished, so it only looks: nothing is sent and no credits are used. It starts when you click Start the tour or Take the guided tour in the sidebar. On 13 October we fixed a bug where pressing Space or Enter closed the tour instead of moving to the next step. Space and Enter now go forward, and Esc still leaves.

Asking a question is easier

• Under the question box, four marks tick as your request names the method, the data or benchmark, the measure and the years, with a hint for each part still missing.
• The language of the review and the sources it searches are now chosen from your request. PubMed is added for a biomedical question.
• The three depths, Quick, Standard and Thorough, are described by their purpose first: to try the scope, for a first review, to check before writing.

Reading and using the results

• The Datasets tab shows results by dataset and metric, so papers can be compared on the same measure.
• Each finding in the report has a button to ask about it, and you can ask about datasets, metrics and baselines.
• A bar of seven stages sits under the title of every review, shows how far you are and offers a Continue button for the next step.
• Comparing two reviews now opens with their two answers side by side and warns when the two runs used different criteria, years or exclusions, so the numbers cannot be compared directly.
• My work opens with the items that wait for your decision.

Write with AI

A draft now opens straight in the LaTeX editor, with a Write with AI pane beside it. Type / to attach a review as context, then ask for a Related Work section or a paragraph on a gap. Citations come only from the real papers of the review you attached.

Repository checks

Each finding in a repository report now names the GitHub issue that already reported it, and whether that issue was closed as done, closed as not planned or is still open. The report opens with its conclusion and the main obstacles, and the score comes after.

Safer uploads

BRIDGE now recognises when a file uploaded as a proposal is not a research proposal, such as a CV, and does not create a review from it. A PDF you upload for a single paper must carry that paper's title, so a wrong file can no longer be quoted as if it were the paper.

Sign-in through Clerk

Signing in and signing up now go through Clerk. The sign-in and sign-up pages show Clerk's ready-made form, in English and Vietnamese, in place of the old email and password form. It brings protection against password guessing and bots that BRIDGE no longer has to build itself.

Addresses and server

• Each public page now has its own address in each language, for example /about in English and /vi/about in Vietnamese, so search engines can list both.
• The site moved to a larger server, with more room for reviews to run, and new versions are checked and deployed automatically.

Something missing or broken? Tell the team.