Sci-Bot
Sci-Hub — the shadow library courts treat as copyright-infringing — launched its own AI research assistant. Reviews are mixed: Sci-Hub’s shrinking access to paywalled literature limits the tool’s value.
Discovery and research tools
ScienceDirect AI
ScienceDirect AI is Elsevier’s generative AI layer over ScienceDirect: “Ask ScienceDirect AI” for natural-language queries, a Reading Assistant for interactive document exploration, and Compare Experiments for synthesising experimental data across studies. Developed with input from over 30,000 researchers…
SCiNiTO
SCiNiTO, from Notion Wave, is a research platform spanning discovery, collaboration, manuscript review and journal recommendation. It integrates OpenAlex data (over 260M records) and Unpaywall, with AI agents for search, summarisation and manuscript refinement.
SciSpace
SciSpace is a research workspace covering discovery, comprehension and writing: semantic search, AI-assisted literature review and PDF interaction in one place.
Scite Assistant
Scite Assistant combines LLMs with Scite’s database of citation contexts, answering research questions with evidence that distinguishes supporting, contrasting and merely-mentioning citations.
Scopus AI
Scopus AI adds generative AI to Elsevier’s abstract and citation database: natural-language questions, synthesised answers from Scopus-indexed content, aimed at grasping trends, identifying experts and finding literature without combing hundreds of abstracts.
Semantic Reader
Semantic Reader, from Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI), augments scientific PDFs: in-line citation cards with TLDR summaries, AI-generated highlights labelled Goal, Method and Result, and citations personalised against the user’s own library.
ShelfImage
Upload a photo of your bookshelf (or Kindle library) and the AI tells you what kind of person you are, then recommends more books. A side project by Mark Riley, and openly labelled as such.
Smart Book Recommender (SBR)
The Smart Book Recommender, built by The Open University with Springer Nature, helps the Computer Science editorial team decide which books, journals and proceedings to market at which conferences. It uses the Computer Science Ontology to semantically match…
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Sorcero AI Platform
Sorcero’s platform turns complex medical data into insight for life sciences organisations: Medical Insights Management, Intelligent Publication Monitoring, Plain Language Summaries and Intelligent Systematic Literature Review, over structured and unstructured sources. Its medically tuned AI uses over 1,000…
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