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ScienceDirect AI (SD AI) is a research service tool launched by Elsevier, based on full‑text literature. It is designed to enhance the efficiency of scientific research and knowledge discovery. Its main functions include intelligent search, literature management, a deep reading assistant, and experimental comparison, helping researchers quickly grasp cutting‑edge scientific information, accurately summarize literature content, extract key insights, support multilingual natural‑language queries, and generate professional reviews.

By generating high‑quality research summaries from full‑text data, SD AI saves over 50% of literature reading time and 80% of information screening time, significantly boosting research productivity. It also supports cross‑platform personalized analysis, extending to personal literature libraries, to assist researchers in achieving customized in‑depth analysis.

The unique value of SD AI lies in its strict traceability to full‑text content, ensuring information reliability, and its integration of high‑quality peer‑reviewed materials to provide trustworthy, transparent research support. It not only covers multiple disciplines such as natural sciences, engineering, and medicine but also promotes interdisciplinary research, accelerates innovation, and offers efficient, precise knowledge‑discovery solutions for research institutions and researchers throughout the entire workflow.

For more details, visit: Elsevier Academy: Introduction to SD AI

Feature Overview:

ScienceDirect AI Intelligent Search – Retrieval and Summarization of Full‑Text Articles and Book Chapters

Users can describe the content they need and their search purpose in their own language, and retrieve answers from the full text of 14 million articles and book chapters. ScienceDirect AI will search across its tens of millions of documents, providing summaries with references, source excerpts for each reference, brief relevant insights, and direct links back to the original literature.

Reading Assistant – Conversing with Articles in ScienceDirect

The conversational function helps researchers conduct in‑depth Q&A on specific research papers or book chapters. Users can click on references within an answer to jump to the relevant passage in the source. The feature also suggests appropriate research questions to researchers.

Experiment Comparison Tool – Experimental Summary Tables

Comparing and consolidating literature is time‑consuming. SD AI’s unique “Compare Experiments” tool can aggregate a set of articles and generate a comparison table that breaks down each experiment, extracting key points including objectives, methods, and results.

Customized Literature Management & Intelligent Analysis – Integrated with Mendeley AI

Mendeley is Elsevier’s free reference‑management software for researchers (Download link).

ScienceDirect AI integrates Mendeley AI tools, breaking through the traditional barrier of “analysis limited to a single platform.” Mendeley AI can not only efficiently process literature from ScienceDirect but also support intelligent comparative analysis of all user‑selected literature in personal libraries, helping researchers move from “passively managing literature” to “actively mining insights” and enabling truly personalized retrieval and intelligent interpretation.

After obtaining relevant references from the SD AI search box, clicking “Add to my library” directly saves key literature to a personal Library folder. When logged into the Mendeley Reference Manager with the same account, the Library folder automatically syncs, allowing analysis and organization via Mendeley AI.

Mendeley AI provides three main functions: Reading Assistant, Compare Experiments, and Ask My Library. The upcoming “Ask My Library” feature will allow users to pose questions across all full‑text literature stored in their personal Mendeley library, with AI integrating key information across documents to generate comprehensive, systematic answers.