Reading Assistant, a new AI capability within ClinicalKey Student, is now available to make long-form book and journal content more approachable for learners.
Make complex content more approachable
Textbook chapters and journal articles are rich, but they can be daunting, especially when a topic is unfamiliar. Reading Assistant gives your students a new way to engage with that depth. While reading, they can get oriented before diving into a chapter or article, surface key concepts, and explore complex material in a more approachable way.
With Reading Assistant, learners stay connected to the original source. Every answer includes clear references back to the supporting passages, so your students are always one step from the trusted Elsevier content behind it.
Why the source links matter
AI features are only useful to students if they can trust the answers. In student research on AI within ClinicalKey Student, source citations stood out as the reason that trust is possible. Students already rely on the textbooks in ClinicalKey Student, so an AI that points back to those books carries credibility a general-purpose tool can’t match.
Reading Assistant is built around this. Every answer links back to the passage it came from, so students can check the explanation against the original text and keep reading from there.
Support learners wherever they’re starting from
Learners don’t all approach complex content from the same starting point. Reading Assistant can support students encountering an unfamiliar topic, those looking for an accessible starting point before going deeper, and those studying in a language that isn’t their first.
For faculty and librarians, it provides another way to explore ClinicalKey Student’s content.
- More approachable: helps learners find a starting point in complex long-form content.
- More inclusive: supports different levels of knowledge and language confidence.
- Connected to the source: keeps Elsevier’s trusted content at the heart of the experience.
How it fits with StudyFinder AI
If your students have already used StudyFinder AI, which launched earlier this year for medicine packages in select markets, the two tools complement each other. StudyFinder AI helps students find what they need, searching across textbooks, videos, assessment questions, 3D models, images and clinical cases. Reading Assistant helps them understand it. Once a student is reading a chapter, it can summarise a section, clarify a concept or answer a question, with every answer linked back to the passage it came from.
