Hey there,

Anyone who's run a PRISMA-compliant review knows the pain: you screen thousands of abstracts, then spend weeks tracking down full texts before you can apply your real eligibility criteria. The abstract said "randomized trial in adults with diabetes." The full text reveals it was actually adolescents, or actually a cohort study, or actually measuring a different outcome.

Starting today, Elicit supports full-text screening as a distinct workflow step in Systematic Reviews.

This means Elicit can now automate even more of your PRISMA-compliant reviews. You define your eligibility criteria, and Elicit applies them across the full texts of your papers.

To get started, start a Systematic Review and click on "Full-text screening" after you screen abstracts. Here's how it works:

Get your full texts automatically

Our Chrome extension uses your existing institutional access to pull full texts directly into your review. Even without institutional access, it retrieves roughly 30% more papers than Elicit alone. For the rest, you can cleanly upload PDFs. What used to take weeks of chasing down PDFs across publisher sites now happens in the background in minutes while you do other work. Download our browser extension to get started.

Screen before you extract

Some criteria genuinely require the full paper: specific population definitions, intervention details, outcome measures, study design elements that authors don't put in abstracts. Now you can screen on those criteria and see the results before committing to extraction, catching mismatches early instead of discovering them late in your review.

This builds on our recent work in full-text capabilities: the Chrome extension for automatic retrieval and figure extraction for data that lives outside the text.

Full-text screening is now available for Pro, Teams, and Enterprise users.

Weeks of work, handled.