ScreenLit: The NotebookLM Literature Screening Kit for Masters & PhD Students

Use AI on your literature review in a way your supervisor can check.

ScreenLit is a step-by-step method for Masters and PhD students. You use Google NotebookLM to screen and score your sources against criteria you set with your supervisor, and every AI-assisted decision stays visible. The AI suggests scores with quotations and page numbers. You check each one and set the final score. Nothing the AI produces goes into your thesis.

It's built around what supervisors are asking for: a declaration of AI use, a living register of every time you used AI, and a method you can describe in your methodology chapter.

What you get

• The ScreenLit Method guide (PDF): checking your university's AI rules first, the scoring matrix, the four-phase workflow and a worked example from a hypothetical Master of Environmental Management dissertation
• ScreenLit Workbook (Excel, works in Google Sheets): weighted scores out of 100, automatic Core, Supporting or Background classification, an AI Use Register and a summary for supervisor meetings
• Screening Brief template (Word): your research questions, criteria and AI commitments, with a signature block for your supervisor
• 7 copy-ready prompts: policy check, screening scorecard, quote verification, gap check, contradiction finder, examiner questions and notebook instructions
• AI declaration and methodology paragraph: ready to adapt for your dissertation or thesis
• 12 months of updates

Who it's for

South African Masters and PhD students who are writing a literature review and want to use AI without risking their degree. NWU's AI policy is the worked example, and Step 0 shows you how to check your own university's rules.

What it isn't

ScreenLit won't write your thesis, and it doesn't help you get past AI detection. It keeps AI out of your writing and gives you a record of exactly how you used it.

Licence

For one student's own research. Your licence key is on your receipt; enter it in the workbook's Start Here tab to stay eligible for updates. Group, research-group and faculty licences, and workshops: screenlit@oanagakara.co.za

Launch price R299 for the first 100 buyers, then R399.

Payments are processed by OGK Solutions, the company behind ScreenLit.