(19 Nov 2025) Elsevier introduces LeapSpace™, a next-generation AI-assisted workspace built to transform how academic and corporate scientists work. Designed for speed, collaboration, and discovery, LeapSpace empowers academic and corporate researchers to uncover deeper insights, accelerate innovation, and collaborate seamlessly – in one secure environment they can trust.
84% of researchers say they have used AI tools in their work but only 22% trust existing tools. Designed with thousands of researchers, LeapSpace builds on the success of ScienceDirect AI and Scopus AI, bringing together the broadest collection of peer-reviewed scientific content and responsible AI. It includes innovative Trust Cards, a foundational capability which provides context and transparency into every result, supporting critical thinking and helping researchers calibrate the strength of the evidence.
Key features include:
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One seamless assistant: Generate ideas, plan projects, explore literature, find collaborators, and identify funding — all with a powerful AI that analyzes abstracts and full text to deliver structured, referenced answers.
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Comprehensive trusted content: A certified and curated dataset of millions of peer-reviewed full text articles, books, and the world’s largest database of research abstracts from top academic publishers and societies.
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Trust Cards: Every AI-generated insight includes a ‘Trust Card’ designed to give researchers confidence to make informed decisions – showing sources, an explanation for why a source was cited, surfacing contradictions and helping researchers to calibrate the strength of the evidence.
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Deep Research: Agentic AI delivers detailed reports, highlights emerging patterns, assumptions and limitations, and evidence gaps.
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Upload your own content: Users can also upload their own material to enrich analysis.
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Integrated funding discovery: Access 45,000 active and recurring grants worth over $100 billion, drawn from Elsevier’s Funding Institutional database.
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Efficiency tools: Features such as Reading Assistant, Compare, and Author Search help researchers rapidly evaluate evidence and identify collaborators.
Existing and new ScienceDirect AI customers will be automatically upgraded to LeapSpace when it becomes commercially available in Q1 2026.
