dsh-hana-research

Conducting research in psychology, public health, sociology, or education often means juggling search pages, PDF readers, spreadsheets, and note apps, losing the trail, and struggling to produce a defensible evidence chain at review or defence time. Hana Research consolidates all of this into a single local-first workbench inside DeepSeek Harness: discover literature across OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, and PubMed or upload local PDFs; organise everything under a project tied to a concrete research question so that papers, annotations, tasks, and cross-paper relationships all have a clear home; close-read in a three-pane viewer where highlights, quotes, and judgements are anchored to specific pages; expand into a systematic review workflow when needed, with PRISMA dual-stage screening, dual-rater independent judgement plus conflict arbitration, RoB 2 and GRADE appraisal, and custom research coding; then export evidence matrices, BibTeX, annotated PDFs, and more, handing the current context to Harness Agents for collaborative next steps. Data lives in a local SQLite database and file directory by default, write operations require explicit user confirmation with audit logging, making it a good fit for scholars who prioritise data sovereignty.

The workflow spans six stages: discovery, project organisation, close reading, systematic review, evidence synthesis, and export and collaboration. Discovery includes saved searches, new-result alerts, and custom journal sources. The project library keeps literature roles, reading status, priority, and research tasks in one place. The reader offers table of contents, thumbnails, full-text search, reading progress, and structured extraction. The systematic review module uses progressive disclosure: if you only need to collect, read, and annotate, you can skip screening, coding, and quality appraisal entirely. Export supports Markdown, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX, BibTeX, and RIS, plus twenty Harness Agent tools for downstream automation.

If you are preparing a course review, a grant dossier, or a journal submission that demands a traceable, reproducible, and auditable evidence trail, Hana Research merges what used to be four or five separate tools into one local pipeline while keeping your data on your machine, your actions reversible, and your outputs in the formats reviewers expect.