Through the month of November, the CEU library is offering the opportunity to evaluate new AI capabilities in two of our existing databases: ScienceDirect and Scopus. All CEU staff and students have access to the new features through the library’s databases page until the end of November, and we hope you will help test these and provide feedback via MS Forms. You can access ScienceDirect AI by clicking the ‘Discover insights’ button in the floating navigation menu that you’ll find across ScienceDirect. Alternatively, you may start your journey on any article page on ScienceDirect, where you will find the Reading Assistant. Scopus AI Foundation is accessible by clicking on the ‘Scopus AI’ tab.
ScienceDirect is a full-text database of 2500 journals – the AI agent allows natural language searching and generates summaries with references to the journal articles in the database. It also has a feature that compares experiments (studies) in a grid view. Scopus is the largest citation and abstract database in the world, with over 100 million records from 7,000 publishers, 25 million Open Access publications, and 2.6 billion cited references dating back to 1970. Scopus’s AI feature will include a Deep Research option that applies agentic AI to simulate human reasoning.