The RPI community has access to ScienceDirect AI, Scopus AI, and Mendeley Reading Assistant through RPI Libraries. RPI is the first U.S. university to adopt both ScienceDirect AI and Scopus AI. We will also have access to LeapSpace (Elsevier’s new AI-assisted workspace) when it becomes available in early 2026.
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ScienceDirect AI: Designed as a workflow companion, enabling researchers to instantly surface, cite, compare, and explore trusted evidence from peer-reviewed full-text articles and book chapters.
- Uses high-quality peer-reviewed content, not generic web-scraped information and data.
- Built for traceability: every response includes clear citations and links to the original source.
- Includes features such as Compare Experiments (tabulated extraction of experiment details) and Reading Assistant, which allows users to chat with a document.
Scopus AI: Combines curated Scopus metadata, abstracts, and author profiles with generative AI to deliver faster insights, deeper knowledge, and strategic intelligence.
- Enables natural-language queries, topic summaries, expanded summaries & concept maps.
- Features such as Foundational documents identify high-impact papers, and Emerging themes help identify gaps in the literature.
Mendeley's Reading Assistant: The reference manager includes new features, including Reading Assistant and Compare Experiments, powered by GenAI.
- Get instant clarity from any PDF.
- Select up to ten PDFs and generate a clean, side-by-side comparison table of experiments.
- Turn your entire library into a knowledge hub.
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LeapSpace: Elsevier’s next-gen AI-assisted workspace, built for speed, collaboration, and discovery in one secure environment.
- Combines the broadest collection of peer-reviewed scientific content with responsible AI, building on ScienceDirect AI and Scopus AI.
- Key features include: a single seamless assistant (generate ideas, plan projects, explore literature, find collaborators, map funding) and “Trust Cards” that surface sources, context, and evidence strength.
- Developed under strict governance to reduce hallucinations, it shows its workings, provides references, and uses a patent-pending RAG Fusion algorithm.
Reach out to our library staff with any questions about incorporating these tools into your research or instruction.
