Elicit turns personal libraries into a shared research hub, letting its Research Agent search and save papers

Elicit's Library has become a shared research hub used by both researchers and AI agents, so a team can question and accumulate around the same body of literature. Previously, the papers behind a decision were scattered across personal reference managers, old searches and project files, and a new teammate could see the final work without seeing the evidence that shaped it. Elicit's example is a team collection called "Most important papers in NSCLC"; the Research Agent searches that collection, reads the relevant papers, and answers with citations back to the source material.

Shared collections become reusable team knowledge, and papers the Research Agent finds can be saved directly into a named collection on request. Before, new evidence from a search tended to stay with one person, and the team had to rediscover sources and rebuild context. Elicit describes asking the Research Agent to save 7 papers to a collection called "NSCLC resistance mechanisms"; a collection can be shared with individual collaborators or an organization, and colleagues can review the same literature and add papers themselves.

Collections can be linked to Projects, which tells the Research Agent which sources matter most when it works inside that Project. Previously, a Project's sessions, outputs and instructions sat apart from the literature behind them, and a new colleague could see only what the team produced. Elicit's example is a team investigating NSCLC treatment strategy: the Project brings together its sessions, outputs, instructions and the collection of literature behind the work, so a new colleague can see the evidence the team cares about and ask follow-up questions with the same context.

The demonstrated scope is Elicit Library's shared collections, the linking of collections to Projects, and the Research Agent's ability to search personal and shared collections, cite sources and save papers; the intended users are team researchers working in Elicit.

Elicit describes the update as making research more cumulative and says it wants Elicit to be a shared environment where research compounds over time; these are product goals, and the supporting material gives no data measuring that accumulation.