Hi there,

Today, we’re releasing two new updates to the Elicit Library:

Collections: Organize papers by project or task. Separate your systematic review papers from your grant proposal sources from your background reading.

Smart De-duplication: Automatically detect and merge versions of the same paper, even if titles and abstracts don’t exactly match.

With these two new features, you can keep your research library organized, focused, and free of duplicates. That’s less time wrangling papers and more time using them in your research workflows.

Collections

To get started with Collections, navigate to your Elicit Library. You can create a Collection from the left sidebar.

You can organize your papers by project, topic, priority, or however you think. Papers can also be in multiple collections at a time.

The best part is you can then use collections throughout Elicit workflows. Within the Library, you can immediately use a collection in a systematic review or data extraction via the right sidebar.

To learn more about how Collections work, read more here.

Smart De-duplication

Smart De-duplication automatically detects potential duplicates in papers you upload, letting you handle them quickly. Uniquely, Elicit will identify potential duplicates even if the wordings are dissimilar (e.g., conference proceedings vs. pre-prints vs. journal articles).

To get started, upload papers to your Elicit Library. After the upload is complete, you’ll see a button to review possible duplicates in the right sidebar.

Clicking it will take you to the potential duplicates we identified in your uploaded papers. Here, you can see the differences between each paper (with new information in green and conflicting information in red). You can also see what a merged version of the papers would look like in the right sidebar.

You can merge new information from the duplicate into the original (and preview what the result would look like), delete one of the papers, or keep both. You can also select all the papers and bulk apply an action.

Smart De-duplication will run automatically on any papers you upload to Elicit so you can keep your Library clean. Learn more about using Smart De-duplication here.

Try the new Elicit Library

You can try out Collections and Smart De-duplication today in the Elicit Library. Let us know if you have any feedback or have any ideas you’d like to see in future versions of the Library. You can also read more about the features in our Help Center.