Welcome to ScienceDirect AI
Eureka, every day
ScienceDirect AI is a workflow companion that enables researchers to instantly surface, cite, compare and explore trusted evidence from deep within the peer-reviewed literature. It makes knowledge discovery more efficient, practical and rewarding.
Goodbye wasted reading time.
Hello relevance
Use your own words to instantly find what you need in the scientific literature.
Most GenAI tools predict likely responses based on web data. Not this one. ScienceDirect AI finds meaningful and citable responses exclusively from millions of high-quality, peer-reviewed, full-text research articles and book chapters.
Unlike conventional search, ScienceDirect AI uses inbuilt intelligence to understand the logic behind your query. The responses come from deep within the full text, giving you more in-depth information and richer details.
From question to evidence in seconds, not days.
Take transparency to a new level
Ensuring traceability and reproducibility is a must for research integrity.
Everything you get from ScienceDirect AI includes clear citations and direct links to the original source material.
ScienceDirect AI even identifies the exact passage in the original text that was used to generate the response. So, every response you’re presented with is instantly verifiable.
In the quest for trust, origin is everything, and with ScienceDirect AI you will always know what’s relevant, where and who it came from, and how it came about.
Want to compare?
There’s no comparison
Comparing and synthesizing literature can be a laborious task. ScienceDirect AI accelerates and enhances the process by providing a unique Compare Experiments tool.
For relevant references, ScienceDirect AI can be used to extract the details that really matter and arrange them in a table – paper by paper, experiment by experiment.
From goals and methods to results and conclusions, at a glance, you can see not just what was found but how the authors found it.
Dig deeper, read smarter
As you drill further down into your investigation, ScienceDirect AI’s Reading Assistant appears alongside the text of an article or book chapter.
You can chat with it and interrogate the document. You’ll be able to pinpoint and save insights, as well as summarize sections.
You can ask follow-up questions, and then more follow-up questions. Your queries are always saved, so you’ll never have to start over.
Dig deeper, and even deeper, building your understanding as you go.
Built with you, for you
ScienceDirect AI has been designed with the real needs of researchers in mind. From hundreds of hours of interviews, through development testing with more than 70 institutions and over 30,000 users across the globe, every aspect of ScienceDirect AI can be traced back to a pain point you’ve told us about.
Here are some of the things the research community have to say when they apply this new tech to their challenges:
"These tools have significantly enhanced my research by streamlining literature reviews and providing insightful summaries, which saves time and improves understanding of complex topics"
– Faculty member, Hong Kong
“I like the user-friendly interface and the easiness to using the tool. I find the reading assistant most valuable as it drastically reduces the reading time of articles and helps me to identify the most important parts within seconds”
– Postdoctoral Researcher, Netherlands
"The summary of articles cut my reading time in half, and I love the comparison table of the articles. Excellent all-around tool!”
– Faculty member, Trinidad and Tobago
“ScienceDirect's AI tool has transformed the way I work. Amidst AI tools that hallucinate or provide false information, this tool stands out for its precision. The quality of information spares me hours of search. Its effectiveness has allowed me to expand the scope of my research projects, investigate more diverse lines of research and produce superior work.”
– Professor Paulo Botelho Pires, Porto Accounting and Business School, Porto Institute, Portugal, Spain
“What once took three weeks now takes just a week and a half—saving me over 50% of my time. Unlike keyword-based searches, ScienceDirect AI delivers well-structured references directly relevant to my research question.”
- R&D Manager, a leading global food manufacturer
Book a demonstration
Enquire today about enabling ScienceDirect AI at your organization.
ScienceDirect AI is available for organization subscription access. If you’re a librarian or business user interested in activating ScienceDirect AI at your institution or corporation, complete the form below and we'll be in touch shortly to arrange a demonstration and discuss your requirements.
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FAQ
- What technology does ScienceDirect AI use?
ScienceDirect employs vector search for retrieval of relevant insights from the ScienceDirect AI corpus to analyze, synthesize and summarize user inputs and system responses. The development of ScienceDirect AI is guided by the Elsevier Responsible AI Principles.
- How does ScienceDirect AI ensure data privacy and security?
As we embed GenAI features in ScienceDirect and other products, we do so in line with Elsevier’s Responsible AI Principles and Privacy Policy.
- How do you reduce the risk of hallucinations and bias?
The prompt engineering that guides our large language models (LLMs) has been designed to be strict, with clear instructions and scope. For example, the response that ScienceDirect AI generates must match the intent of your query. If the AI does not find relevant information in ScienceDirect, the user should be informed. And when ScienceDirect AI does make a claim or assertion, a reference to source text is always required. ScienceDirect AI responses are also regularly tested against two rigorous evaluation frameworks. Together, these factors reduce the risk of hallucinations, and we continue to work on developments to further limit those risks.
- I am a publisher and I would like my content included in ScienceDirect AI, what do I do?
If you are interested in increasing the reach of your content via ScienceDirect or ScienceDirect AI, please contact our ScienceDirect Business Development Director, Daniela Georgescu.
- I am a book author and I’d like to understand the implications of this launch for me, who can I contact?
Book authors with questions about ScienceDirect AI should get in touch with their editorial contact. If you do not know the name of your contact, please email AuthorQuery@elsevier.com.
- I am an individual researcher and would like access, what do I do?
Please contact the librarian at your organization.
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