ScienceDirect AI (SDAI): Your Research Companion
ScienceDirect AI (SDAI) is an intelligent companion that empowers researchers to explore, compare, and uncover insights from the full text of high-quality, peer-reviewed literature — all with a single click. Visit Elsevier's ScienceDirect AI Guide to learn:
- How does it work?
- Getting started with Ask ScienceDirect AI
- Search tools to improve your results
- Understanding your results
- What are the top features?
- Responsible AI principles
- Reading assistant
- Compare experiments
- My library
- Navigation
Built on the most trusted foundation of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, SDAI surfaces critical evidence and connects every insight directly to its original source. This ensures traceability and reproducibility, enabling you to go from question to verified evidence in seconds, not days.
Drawing on millions of full-text articles and book chapters, SDAI includes both Elsevier’s trusted content and millions of vetted Open Access articles from other publishers, validated through Scopus.
Core Features
- Summary: Delivers a direct, evidence-based response to your question, citing specific sources. Every assertion is linked to one or more passages and their original documents.
- Reading Assistant: A versatile tool for analyzing or summarizing individual articles and book chapters.
- Generate a concise summary of an article.
- Ask your own questions or choose from suggested prompts (available for selected articles).
- Compare Experiments: Instantly view a structured table of studies related to your query. The table compares each study’s goals, materials, methods, results, and conclusions — with multiple experiments from the same article represented individually.
