Elsevier launches ScienceDirect AI to “transform research”
Elsevier has launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to extract, summarise and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect.
Studies show that researchers spend 25%-35% of their time sifting through literature. ScienceDirect AI helps address this challenge by drawing on the a content set of millions of peer-reviewed full-text research articles and book chapters to generate instant accurate summaries and highlight key findings, while providing references to support reproducibility and integrity of research.
ScienceDirect AI includes the following features:
- Ask ScienceDirect AI – search and summaries of full-text articles and book chapters
Users can search and get answers from within the full-text of 14 million articles and book chapters, using their own words to describe what they need and why. ScienceDirect AI will search across the millions of documents in its index to provide a Summary Response with references, Source Snippets for each reference and short Related Insights summaries, while linking back to the original document.
- Reading Assistant – chat with a document in ScienceDirect
This conversational feature answers questions about the content of a specific full-text article or book chapter and allows researchers to ask further questions of the document. Users can click on references within the summaries to jump to locations in the article where the answer comes from, it also suggests research questions.
- Compare Experiments – experiment summary table
ScienceDirect AI’s unique Compare Experiments tool takes a set of articles and creates a table breaking down each experiment within them, drawing out the key aspects of each including goals, methods, results.
Stuart Whayman, Elsevier President of Corporate Markets, said: “ScienceDirect AI has the potential to dramatically accelerate research by transforming the way researchers discover knowledge and extract insights. Our beta customers representing diverse industries and R&D roles have provided us with highly positive feedback. They strongly value ScienceDirect AI because it is grounded in trusted content, research integrity and transparency. Our commitment to privacy and security not only safeguards intellectual property but also ensures the delivery of accurate and reliable outputs while protecting user data.”
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