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Day: March 12, 2025

Elsevier launches ScienceDirect AI

Elsevier, provider of advanced information and decision support, launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, a platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research.

Users can search and get answers from within the full-text of 14 million articles and book chapters, using their own words to describe what they need and why. ScienceDirect AI searches across the millions of documents in its index to provide a Summary Response with references, Source Snippets for each reference, and short Related Insights summaries while linking back to the original document. A conversational feature answers questions about the content of a specific full-text article or book chapter and allows researchers to ask further questions.

ScienceDirect AI’s Compare Experiments tool takes a set of articles and creates a table breaking down each experiment within them, drawing out aspects of each including goals, methods and results.

ScienceDirect AI’s use of third-party LLMs is private, no information is stored or used to train public models, and all data is stored in a protected and private environment exclusive to Elsevier.

https://elsevier.shorthandstories.com/sciencedirect-ai

Gilbane Advisor 3-12-25 — Content management & RAG, LLM latest

This week we feature articles from Simon Willison, and Michael Iantosca.

Additional reading comes from Stella Jo, Paolo Perrone, David Pierce, and Michael Hunger.

News comes from Coveo, data.world, Couchbase, and TransPerfect.

Our next issue arrives March 19.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index


Opinion / Analysis

Content management considerations for generative AI RAG

“Few generative AI solutions have been designed with professional content management requirements as part of their architecture. Those that have are amateurish at best, relying on simplistic techniques such as date stamping or re-building of vector databases and their embeddings.”

Michael Iantosca explains the complexities of content operations and details how knowledge graphs address critical issues. For those who already know, Iantosca’s article may help colleagues or clients who don’t. (11 min)

https://medium.com/@nc_mike/content-management-considerations-for-generative-ai-rag-8b54535ccf92

What’s new in the world of LLMs

This is a must read for anyone who needs the latest on LLMs. Simon Willison has experimented with major LLMs since at least ChatGPT and reports his findings on his blog. His blog is focused on developers but includes posts such as this one that are valuable for users and technology decision-makers.

This post includes slides with notes from a presentation he made last week at NICARs (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) annual data journalism conference for investigative reporters and editors. (7 min)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms

More Reading

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Content technology news

Coveo augments AI support

Coveo expands AI toolkit for developers with suite of off-the-shelf APIs, launches Agentic AI Design Partner Program for better Gen AI and Agentic AI applications.
https://www.coveo.com/en/company/news-releases/2025/agenticai

Couchbase unveils Edge Server

Expanded support for edge workloads allows businesses to effectively operate in remote, disconnected, and resource-constrained environments.
https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-edge-server-lightweight-sync/

data.world launches Archie Chat

New conversational AI assistant transforms how organizations discover, understand, and interact with their data assets.
https://data.world

TransPerfect introduces Zendesk Support App

The new app enables users to instantly translate messages and ticket conversations while integrating seamlessly with the GlobalLink Now API.
https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-introduces-zendesk-support-app

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