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Elsevier Roadmaps 2026 

Combining quality scientific information and data sets with innovative technologies to deliver critical insights

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2026 roadmap highlights

Explore the 2026 roadmaps for Elsevier R&D Solutions and gain early insight into the new features, technologies and content enhancements designed to power your success. 

From next-generation AI capabilities and expanded datasets to optimized infrastructure and improved accessibility, our latest advancements are focused on helping you move from question to answer faster.

ScienceDirect

Critical insights to accelerate R&D and support confident discovery, innovation and development

Upgrades to ScienceDirect in 2026 include:

  • Enhanced ADA accessibility 

  • Re-platformed infrastructure to improve scalability and agility 

  • Free book previews 

  • A redesigned article interface to make it easier than ever to discover relevant research quickly

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Scopus

Better integrated AI functionality

Scopus expands AI-assisted discovery capabilities throughout 2026, accelerating horizon scanning, literature reviews and white space analysis by enabling analytics at scale. Scopus moves toward a unified Scopus experience with AI embedded directly into core workflows. Updates include:

  • Improved relevance through smarter recommendations 

  • New features that support export and advanced analytics

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Datasets

Turn data into discoveries 

Build a more complete picture and uncover hidden connections with:

  • Expanded dataset coverage including additional clinical trials content in our biomedical dataset from Embase

  • Enhanced API onboarding and delivery experiences that make it easier to integrate Elsevier data into your internal pipelines

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Reaxys

Advancing discovery and synthesis

Faster, more intuitive chemistry discovery is the focus of Reaxys development priorities this year. Priorities include:

  • Enhance document search and summarization with AI-powered capabilities

  • Accelerate high-quality chemical data availability at scale through AI-driven extraction

  • Expand route generation capabilities and strengthen synthesis planning models

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Knovel

Delivering trusted and relevant engineering insights

A faster time to market and reduced risk are the focus of Knovel development priorities this year. Priorities include:

  • Materials Explorer, a material-first workflow that consolidates millions of data points on thousands of materials into a unified workspace

  • Vector Search

  • AI summaries grounded in context

  • Accessibility improvements to meet ADA Title II requirements across platform tools

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LeapSpace™ is live: the research‑grade AI‑assisted workspace built on trusted science

LeapSpace, Elsevier’s research-grade AI workspace, launched in January. It combines comprehensive trusted, peer-reviewed content with Responsible AI in a single secure environment to help researchers work faster, think deeper and achieve more.     Existing ScienceDirect AI customers will continue to access LeapSpace under their current subscription. The “Ask” ScienceDirect AI page remains available until March 31, 2026; after that, LeapSpace becomes the default AI experience. Compare Experiments and Reading Assistant are included in LeapSpace.

Coming soon: the LeapSpace 2026 product roadmap