Mendeley Reading Assistant
Last updated on November 25, 2025
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The Reading Assistant feature helps quickly and efficiently find important information by querying individual documents and providing real-time responses based on the content of those specific documents.
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The responses provided by the Reading Assistant include one or more in-text citations to support the claims made. Select the citations to highlight the used information snippets in the document.
The responses provided by the Reading Assistant includes one or more in-text citations to support the claims made. Select the citations to highlight the used information snippets in the document.
Technical Details
The generated responses are AI-powered and are based solely on the content of the document. Responses are designed to be concise and relevant summaries, directly extracted from the content, to enhance accuracy and reliability.
For each submitted query, we generate a real-time response making use of the full-text content and a Large Language Model (LLM).
Limitations
- Each submitted query has a 500-character limit.
- No support for providing responses based on any other content that is not text from documents, such as: tables, images, supplementary materials, journal information, etc.
- The conversations are not stored.
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