Getting started with AI features in Mendeley
Last updated on October 21, 2026
AI features in Mendeley are a set of artificial intelligence features designed to assist researchers in extracting insights from their personally curated Mendeley libraries efficiently and effectively.
AI features in Mendeley
Reading Assistant
The Reading Assistant feature helps you quickly find important information by analyzing your individual document, providing real-time answers to questions in the context of the document.
Ask My Library
Ask My Library provides insights based on your query from the content of your personally curated Mendeley library.
Compare Experiments
Compare Experiments provides an overview of experiments and studies typically found within research documents. The overview includes methods, results, conclusions and more, per experiment, for every selected paper.
Technical Overview
| Reading Assistant | Compare Experiments | Ask My Library |
|---|---|---|---|
Search structure | Natural language query | N/A | Vector search (semantic similarity) |
Source content | Individual document from your personal Mendeley library | Selected document(s) from your personal Mendeley library | The entirety of your personal Mendeley library |
Answer based on | Singular document | Up to 10 selected documents | Retrieved documents from your index |
AI-generated content presented |
| One or multiple experiments summarized for each selected document, containing information such as: goal of the experiment, methods, materials, result and conclusion | A summary answer generated from a list of relevant document passages |
Supporting material | Citations that link back to the source used within the document to generate the answer | N/A | Citations that display the source used to generate the response and link back to the document |
Frequently Asked Questions
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For your own privacy, we do recommend leaving out personal, confidential, or sensitive information when submitting a question. This also applies to the nature of the documents you query by using GenAI features in Mendeley. For information on the types of documents that can be stored and used within Mendeley, as well as guidance on what not to store, please refer to our Terms of Use.
Please note: While AI features in Mendeley strive to ground its information and knowledge discovery on your personal Mendeley library content, there may be occasional discrepancies. It is possible for these features to generate results that could be seen as incorrect, misleading, biased or even offensive. AI features in Mendeley are not meant to provide medical advice. Users should not solely rely on AI outputs without exercising their own judgment before acting on or applying any responses. If you want to utilize content generated by AI features in Mendeley in your work, please consult your institutional or workplace guidelines. Content is in English and while AI features in Mendeley may support browser translated inputs and responses, translations are not validated. Do not enter personal, confidential, protected health information (PHI) or sensitive information into AI features in Mendeley.
We currently support PDF format, non-text content (tables, images, PDF scans etc.) are not supported. We recommend using research documents for the best results.
While using AI features in Mendeley with the documents in your personal Mendeley library, you are advised to comply with and take into account Elsevier's Terms & Conditions.opens in new tab/window For detailed information, please refer to the following sections under Terms & Conditions:
You should not reproduce or republish generated responses verbatim, or misrepresent them as human-authored content. Do not cite responses for academic or research purposes - instead, cite the original referenced source material.
An error message can occur for several reasons. Please check the limitations of the feature you are using and rerun your query following the instructions in the message, if applicable. If the problem persists, contact a Customer Support representative for further assistance with one of the buttons at the bottom of this page.
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