Elsevier introduced LeapSpace in mid-November 2025, calling it a next-generation AI-assisted workspace built to transform how academic and corporate scientists work. Designed for speed, collaboration, and discovery with input from thousands of researchers from 300+ institutions in 64 countries, LeapSpace builds on the success of ScienceDirect AI and Scopus AI, by bringing together the broadest collection of peer-reviewed scientific content and responsible AI.
LeapSpace combines agentic AI, generative AI, reasoning engines, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to support a wide range of research workflows—from literature analysis to hypothesis generation and data exploration. Every feature reflects Elsevier's Responsible AI Principles, emphasizing transparency, explainability, and human oversight. Researchers have full visibility into how results are generated.
It includes innovative Trust Cards, a foundational capability, which provides context and transparency with every result, supporting critical thinking and helping researchers calibrate the strength of the evidence. An independent Advisory Board will oversee LeapSpace's transparency, ensuring its algorithms remain explainable and publisher-neutral
A key feature is one seamless assistant to 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. Agentic AI delivers detailed reports, highlights emerging patterns, assumptions and limitations, and evidence gaps in Deep Research mode. Users can upload their own content to enrich analysis. Efficiency tools include Reading Assistant, Compare, and Author Search to help researchers rapidly evaluate evidence and identify collaborators.
LeapSpace is available today for institutions to preview. To learn more, visit here. Existing and new ScienceDirect AI customers will be automatically upgraded to LeapSpace when it becomes commercially available in Q1 2026.
The full press release is here.