New Clarivate tool “connects AI users to trusted academic resources”
Clarivate has announced Clarivate Nexus, an “academic assistant” designed to reconnect students and researchers with library content and services directly in the AI tools they use. The company says its development represents the next step in the Clarivate Academic AI portfolio.
Oren Beit-Arie, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Academia & Government at Clarivate said: “While AI might change academic work and research practices, our goal is to ensure it doesn’t change the rigour of research and learning. We’re excited to collaborate with our customers to shape a new path for academic AI. Nexus will help students and researchers benefit from trusted sources and services, wherever they are and enable libraries and institutions to bring their expertise into the environments where users work.”
Clarivate Nexus is aimed at being a bridge between the convenience of AI and the rigour of academic libraries, embedding institutional resources and services into AI tools, web environments, and campus systems where research and learning often takes place.
Evan Simpson, Associate Dean, Experiential Learning and Academic Engagement, Northeastern University Library said: “Our students and researchers are already working in AI environments. That’s not going to change. What we can influence is whether they’re working with confidence, grounded in trusted sources. We need solutions that meet users where they are and help ensure the materials they rely on are sound, keeping the library central to their research.”
Core capabilities include:
- Library “front door”: Provides a unified entry point to library resources across collections and products, based on their entitlements.
- Full text access: Identifies scholarly references and academic context within AI-generated responses and web environments, and provides easy access to library-curated content.
- Source verification: Verifies academic references in AI outputs and enables users to cite them.
- Recommendations: Suggests relevant scholarly literature based on the user’s research context and institutional sources.
- Library visibility: Surfaces library services and information, such as research guides, expert support and opening hours, as well as other information deemed relevant by the library.
Clarivate Nexus is powered by indexes and content collections, including the Primo and Summon Central Discovery Index, Web of Science citation index and ProQuest collections. It will first be available as a browser extension, allowing it to operate directly within AI and research tools. A future release will support direct integration into campus systems, including learning management systems and library portals.
The academic assistant is designed to protect user privacy and respect institutional access rights, ensuring secure, entitlement-aware access to content and services. Clarivate Nexus will be released for early access in Q3, 2026.