Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for generating a recommendation to on-board a candidate document to an on-line research system, which comprises receiving from an electronic device, a set of data items associated with a candidate document, the candidate document being a document that is a candidate to be made available via the on-line research system and storing the set of data items in a memory. The systems and methods of the present disclosure then automatically analyze the set of data items using a computer program stored in the memory and generate a recommendation as to whether to obtain or not obtain the candidate document. A signal is then generated and transmitted to the electronic device, the signal based upon the recommendation.