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Portugal
Trusted content
AI-generated insights from the world’s most trusted scientific content including Scopus data and Elsevier’s publisher-neutral database.
Identify funders
Find potential funders from within the research community, even providing guidance on what funders typically look for.
Seamless AI workspace
Generate ideas, plan projects, explore literature, find collaborators, and identify funding - all in one secure environment.
Deep research
Build detailed reports, highlighting emerging patterns, contradictions, and evidence gaps that traditional searches often miss.
Academics and students:
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Author Search
Reading Assistant
Deep Research
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LeapSpace Search
Funding Scout
Author Search
Reading Assistant
Deep Research
What’s included in your subscription
Advanced literature search
Speed up in-depth literature reviews, synthesizing peer-reviewed trusted research, highlighting methodologies and surfacing new insights.
- Advance complex research queries and interdisciplinary topics
- Ask follow-up questions to elaborate, refocus or explore new perspectives
- Revisit previous queries to build on past insights
Find funding and collaborators
Uncover thousands of local and international funding opportunities and identity potential collaborators by surfacing individual profiles, experience, and expertise.
- Review funding related to specific research topics, drilling down to specific funding opportunities
- Formulate a list of people working on a research topic, exploring an individual’s previous research to find the right collaborator
Trust Cards
Strengthen confidence when making informed research decisions with Trust Card signals: Link to Statement shows how a claim alignd with its cited source while Claim Radar shows how it holds up across the broader research landscape.
- Evaluate the reliability of a response to your question
- Reduce the time spent locating sources and fact-checking
- Show the exact passage used to support a claim
- Surface sources that support, contradict, or return a mixed finding at the claim level
Deep research
Develop greater confidence in research planning with Deep Research. Designed to enhance critical thinking, assist in solving complex problems and spark further exploration, it thinks with you, not for you.
- Delivers detailed reports, highlights emerging patterns, contradictions, and evidence gaps that traditional searches often miss
- Conducts extensive searches across the curated literature in LeapSpace, and refines its approach as new insights emerge
- Generates and displays the steps it takes when creating a report
Reading Assistant
Determine relevancy or identify key takeaways using the Reading Assistant. Sorting through the literature has never been easier. Available on specific articles, book chapters, and PDFs in ScienceDirect and Mendeley.
- Chat with and interrogate the article or book chapter to summarize sections or pinpoint insights
- Ask follow-up questions and receive suggested research questions
- Resume past research sessions with saved queries and responses
Compare
Identify gaps, assess limitations and evaluate past experiments with Compare. Use literature from the query response to pull into a table for analysis.
- Extracts goals, materials, methods, results, and conclusions
- Includes all experiments from an article in the table
- Exports the table into a CSV for future use
File Upload
Upload your own papers, notes, or reports and ask questions that connect your content with the wider research landscape.
- Upload up to five PDF files per conversation
- Your files are encrypted and never used to train LeapSpace models or shared with other users
- Combine your work with 100M+ Scopus-indexed peer-reviewed sources in a single conversation
- Test a draft paper against recent literature and find gaps your research has not addressed
The LeapSpace difference
Built on peer-reviewed research
LeapSpace draws only from trusted scientific content, unlike general AI tools that typically rely on unverified web data.
Only verified scientific sources
- LeapSpace offers researchers the largest (and still growing) collection of research abstracts and millions of peer-reviewed full-text articles and books from Elsevier and other leading scientific publishers and societies.
- An independent expert advisory board will oversee LeapSpace’s transparency to ensure its algorithms remain publisher-neutral and explainable.
Trust and transparency, every time
84% of researchers use AI, but only 22% trust it (Elsevier, Researcher of the Future report). LeapSpace is designed to bridge that gap.
Verified answers, transparent process
- Every AI-generated insight is referenced and has its own "Trust Card," a foundational capability which provides context and transparency into every result, supporting critical thinking and helping researchers calibrate the strength of the evidence.
- Content is curated by multiple tiers of human experts, including journal peer reviewers, the independent Scopus Content Selection and Advisory Board , and a new independent AI Advisory Board.
- LeapSpace shows you how it works in real time, sharing the steps it takes on-screen.
Commitment to security and privacy
Built with enterprise-grade security and a responsible AI approach, LeapSpace safeguards every user.
Only verified scientific sources
- Leapspace offers researchers the largest (and still growing) collection of research abstracts and millions of peer-reviewed full-text articles and books from Elsevier and other leading scientific publishers and societies.
- An independent expert advisory board will oversee LeapSpace’s transparency to ensure its algorithms remain publisher-neutral and explainable.
Frequently asked questions
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Unlock smarter research insights, faster
Use your own words
Ask complex questions your way and instantly find what you need from ScienceDirect AI’s underlying body of peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters.
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Explain what you need, in any language.
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Get responses from deep within full-text documents, decide what to read next.
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Uncover insights easy to miss by generalist AI tools.
ScienceDirect AI
Goodbye wasted research time. Hello relevance
Take the effort out of comparing experiments
So much science, so little time! Let’s give you a helping hand.
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Extract methods, results and more across experiments within a selection of articles.
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See instantly not just what was found but how the authors found it.
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View summarized information in a table that is easy to export.
ScienceDirect AI
Goodbye wasted research time. Hello relevance
Dig deeper, read smarter
Summarize and ask questions about a document using the Reading Assistant.
- Get a sense of whether a document has insights that are relevant for you.
- Select pre-generated questions, write your own and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper.
- Use the Reading Assistant on saved PDFs in your Mendeley library.
ScienceDirect AI
Goodbye wasted research time. Hello relevance
Take transparency to a new level
In the quest for trust, origin is everything. Be confident that insights you gain come from trusted content.
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Access citations with direct links to the original source material.
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Instantly view the source passage so you can verify AI-generated claims.
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Get summarized insights from trusted, peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters.
ScienceDirect AI
Goodbye wasted research time. Hello relevance
Free access to Mendeley’s AI features
Mendeley helps researchers organize, read and share scientific papers in a personalized library. Use AI features within your own library:
- Reading Assistant: Summarize, clarify or explore findings from documents saved to your library.
- Compare Experiments: Analyze multiple studies in your library side-by-side across results and methods.
- Coming soon - Ask My Library: Use AI to search, summarize and compare PDFs in your Mendeley library.
* Only available in Mendeley Reference Manager
What researchers say about ScienceDirect AI
“When it comes to research, integrated AI tools are the way of the future instead of third party tools (like ChatGPT).”
Librarian
UAE
“Quickly generating precise summaries and extract key findings from research papers saved me significant time and effort.”
Faculty Member
Hong Kong
“Excellent in summarizing articles and highlighting key points, making research more efficient.”
ScienceDirect AI user
South Africa
“Very helpful in synthesizing large evidence for literature reviews.”
ScienceDirect AI user
Ghana
“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 that the answers are reliable and based on actual research papers, which makes me feel more confident to use it instead of ChatGPT for answering research related questions.”
Postdoctoral Researcher
Netherlands
“I love the comparison table of the articles. Excellent all-around tool!”
Faculty Member
Trinidad and Tobago
“ScienceDirect AI cites articles more accurately than other tools.”
Faculty Member
Trinidad and Tobago
Surface the knowledge you need, in less time
Frequently asked questions
Unlock smarter research insights, faster
Use your own words
Ask complex questions your way and instantly find what you need from ScienceDirect AI’s underlying body of peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters.
-
Explain what you need, in any language.
-
Get responses from deep within full-text documents, decide what to read next.
-
Uncover insights easy to miss by generalist AI tools.
Take the effort out of comparing experiments
So much science, so little time! Let’s give you a helping hand.
-
Extract methods, results and more across experiments within a selection of articles.
-
See instantly not just what was found but how the authors found it.
-
View summarized information in a table that is easy to export.
Dig deeper, read smarter
Summarize and ask questions about a document using the Reading Assistant.
- Get a sense of whether a document has insights that are relevant for you.
- Select pre-generated questions, write your own and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper.
- Use the Reading Assistant on saved PDFs in your Mendeley library.
Take transparency to a new level
In the quest for trust, origin is everything. Be confident that insights you gain come from trusted content.
-
Access citations with direct links to the original source material.
-
Instantly view the source passage so you can verify AI-generated claims.
-
Get summarized insights from trusted, peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters.
Subscribe to ScienceDirect AI and get access to Mendeley AI for free.
Mendeley helps researchers organize, read and share scientific papers in a personalized library. You can now use the same AI features available on ScienceDirect within your own Mendeley library*.
- Reading Assistant: Summarize, clarify or explore findings from documents saved to your library.
- Compare Experiments: Analyze multiple studies in your library side-by-side to identify similarities or differences across results and methods.
- [Coming soon] Ask My Library: Use Mendeley AI to search, summarize and compare PDFs stored in your library.
*Mendeley AI features are available only in Mendeley Reference Manager, not Mendeley Desktop.
What researchers say about ScienceDirect AI
“ScienceDirect AI has transformed the way I work. Amidst AI tools that hallucinate or provide false information, this tool stands out for its precision.”
Professor
Portugal
“When it comes to research, integrated AI tools are the way of the future instead of third party tools (like ChatGPT).”
Librarian
UAE
“Quickly generating precise summaries and extract key findings from research papers saved me significant time and effort.”
Faculty Member
Hong Kong
“Excellent in summarizing articles and highlighting key points, making research more efficient.”
ScienceDirect AI user
South Africa
“Very helpful in synthesizing large evidence for literature reviews.”
ScienceDirect AI user
Ghana
“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 that the answers are reliable and based on actual research papers, which makes me feel more confident to use it instead of ChatGPT for answering research related questions.”
Postdoctoral Researcher
Netherlands
“I love the comparison table of the articles. Excellent all-around tool!”
Faculty Member
Trinidad and Tobago
“ScienceDirect AI cites articles more accurately than other tools.”
Faculty Member
Trinidad and Tobago
Surface the knowledge you need, in less time
