# Elicit Help Center

> Help center for Elicit

## Getting Started

- [Getting started with Elicit: Which workflow or tool should I use?](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757543-getting-started-with-elicit-which-workflow-or-tool-should-i-use.md): Which Elicit workflow or tool fits your question: Find Papers, Research Report, Systematic Review, Extract Data, Chat with Papers, or the Research Agent.
- [Elicit's Library](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757550-elicit-s-library.md): Where papers you upload and papers you save from a Research Agent session are stored, plus bulk uploads, tags, collections, and Zotero imports.
- [Session History](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757548-session-history.md): Find, revisit, and delete past sessions in Recents, opened from the left sidebar.
- [Elicit Alerts](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757570-elicit-alerts.md): Set up saved searches that email you new papers as they are published, then refine, review, and export the results.
- [Elicit's YouTube Channel: Tutorials, Tips & News](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757553-elicit-s-youtube-channel-tutorials-tips-news.md): Tutorials, live research sessions, and talks on Elicit's YouTube channel.

## Elicit tips and best practices

- [Chat with Papers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757546-chat-with-papers.md): Ask questions of one or more papers in natural language, and revisit your chat history.
- [Create and save columns in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758162-create-and-save-columns-in-elicit.md): Create columns to extract specific data from papers, save them as presets, and use yes/no/maybe and multiple-choice formats.
- [Improve column results](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758163-improve-column-results.md): Get better extraction results by using full texts and writing clearer column definitions.
- [Answer multiple-choice questions about papers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758164-answer-multiple-choice-questions-about-papers.md): Create a column that answers a multiple-choice question about each paper.
- [Extracting data from a table or figure within a paper in column answers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758168-extracting-data-from-a-table-or-figure-within-a-paper-in-column-answers.md): How Elicit reads tables inside papers, when to turn on Premium PDF parsing, and how to extract data from figures and charts.
- [Filtering in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758171-filtering-in-elicit.md): Narrow results by publication year, journal quality, and study type, using natural language, the Filter button, or advanced search syntax.
- [Improve Search Results](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758175-improve-search-results.md): Write clearer queries, iterate on your results, and use filters to get more relevant papers.
- [Searching for Clinical Trials](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758185-searching-for-clinical-trials.md): Search ClinicalTrials.gov from Elicit, and filter trials by phase, recruitment status, whether results have been posted, and year.
- [Advanced search](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758825-advanced-search.md): Search within a journal, limit to highly cited or open access papers, or find a specific paper by title, DOI, or author.
- [Using Elicit with non-English Papers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758177-using-elicit-with-non-english-papers.md): This article has moved. See Languages other than English.
- [Export your data from Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758189-export-your-data-from-elicit.md): Export reports as PDF or Word, tables as CSV or Excel, and references as RIS or BIB for your reference manager.
- [How to import Elicit .csv files to Excel](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758195-how-to-import-elicit-csv-files-to-excel.md): Open Elicit's exported .csv files correctly, and why Google Sheets handles them better than Excel.
- [Edit a Find Papers query](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758196-edit-a-find-papers-query.md): Change your query and rerun a Find Papers search without starting over.
- [Delete a workflow](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758200-delete-a-workflow.md): Delete a session from Recents by moving it to trash, and what happens to it afterwards.
- [Share your workflows](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758206-share-your-workflows.md): Share a session by email or a public link, control who can view or edit it, and find sessions others have shared with you.
- [Technical requirements & troubleshooting](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758223-technical-requirements-troubleshooting.md): Supported browsers and operating systems, and steps to try when something is not working.
- [Languages other than English](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758084-languages-other-than-english.md): How Elicit handles non-English papers and queries, and what to expect from search, summaries, and extraction.
- [Evaluating Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758226-evaluating-elicit.md): Ideas for evaluating Elicit against your own use case, and the support Elicit offers for evaluations.

## Elicit's Research Agent

- [Elicit's Research Agent](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14756886-elicit-s-research-agent.md): When to use the Research Agent, how to set its effort level \(limited beta\), what sources it can reach, and how to work with its results.
- [Elicit Projects](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/15805744-elicit-projects.md): Group related sessions into a project so they share context with each other as you switch between them.
- [Skills in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/16647708-skills-in-elicit.md): What skills are, how to add and use them in a session, and how to create, edit, share, and version your own.
- [Collaborate in a shared Research Agent session](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/16649941-collaborate-in-a-shared-research-agent-session.md): How edit access works, how multiple people work in the same session, and how artifact edits are drafted, accepted, and tracked in version history.

## Systematic reviews

- [Systematic Reviews in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759154-systematic-reviews-in-elicit.md): The full Systematic Review workflow: setting up your review, gathering papers, screening, extraction, and the final report.
- [Elicit Browser Extension](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759113-elicit-browser-extension.md): Use your institutional access to pull more full-text PDFs into Elicit automatically, and upload the rest yourself.
- [Keyword search in Systematic Reviews](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759156-keyword-search-in-systematic-reviews.md): Build reproducible Boolean searches with AND, OR, and NOT, and know when to use keyword rather than semantic search.
- [Full Text Screening in Elicit Systematic Reviews](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759157-full-text-screening-in-elicit-systematic-reviews.md): Screen included papers against your criteria using their full text, choose Fast or Thorough screening depth, and handle papers with no full text available.
- [Advanced Search & Gathering for Systematic Reviews](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758182-advanced-search-gathering-for-systematic-reviews.md): Run several search strategies side by side in the Gather step, use search history, and see how it feeds the PRISMA diagram.
- [Understanding paper source labels in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759158-understanding-paper-source-labels-in-elicit.md): What the source and content labels on each paper row mean, and how to improve full-text coverage.

## Research reports

- [Get a research report to generate in-depth answers automatically in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14756862-get-a-research-report-to-generate-in-depth-answers-automatically-in-elicit.md): Ask a research question and get a cited report, choose a template and depth, review the result, and export the sources.

## Library

- [Add PDFs to your library in bulk](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744231-add-pdfs-to-your-library-in-bulk.md): Upload PDFs to your Library in batches, with recommended batch sizes and file limits.
- [Upload Paper Titles & Abstracts \(.ris and .bib files\)](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744236-upload-paper-titles-abstracts-ris-and-bib-files.md): Import RIS and BIB files from EndNote, Mendeley, or Rayyan to screen and extract from titles and abstracts.
- [Import papers from Zotero](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744239-import-papers-from-zotero.md): Connect your Zotero account and import collections into Elicit.
- [Edit paper title, author\(s\), and abstract in the Library](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744234-edit-paper-title-author-s-and-abstract-in-the-library.md): Correct a paper's title, authors, or abstract in your Library when Elicit reads them incorrectly from the PDF.
- [Organize Your Papers with Collections](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744252-organize-your-papers-with-collections.md): Group papers into collections in your Library, and start reviews or extractions from them.
- [Tag papers in your Library](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744229-tag-papers-in-your-library.md): Add tags to papers as you upload them, and manage tags in your Library.
- [Zotero import limitations and troubleshooting](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744240-zotero-import-limitations-and-troubleshooting.md): Known limits of the Zotero import and how to work around them.
- [Smart De-duplication in your Library](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744247-smart-de-duplication-in-your-library.md): How Elicit detects duplicate papers in your Library, and what to do with the ones it finds.
- [Deleting papers in your Library](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744253-deleting-papers-in-your-library.md): Delete papers from your Library, recover them within 30 days, and the difference between removing and deleting.
- [Troubleshooting errors when uploading PDFs](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14744256-troubleshooting-errors-when-uploading-pdfs.md): Common reasons a PDF fails to upload, and how to fix them.

## Elicit's API

- [Managing Your Elicit API Keys](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757389-managing-your-elicit-api-keys.md): Create, view, and delete Elicit API keys, and how to keep them secure.
- [Elicit's API](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757400-elicit-s-api.md): Search papers and clinical trials, generate reports, and run systematic reviews programmatically.
- [Use Elicit via MCP Server](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757404-use-elicit-via-mcp-server.md): Connect Elicit to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients.

## About Elicit

- [Elicit's source for papers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758040-elicit-s-source-for-papers.md): The databases behind Elicit's 138 million paper corpus, how often they update, and how coverage compares to other tools.
- [Citing Elicit, search methodology, and using Elicit's content in your own work](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757952-citing-elicit-search-methodology-and-using-elicit-s-content-in-your-own-work.md): How to cite Elicit in your work, how its search methodology works, and how to use Elicit's output responsibly.
- [Why does Elicit provide a different answer when I ask the same question again?](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757916-why-does-elicit-provide-a-different-answer-when-i-ask-the-same-question-again.md): Why the same question can return different results, and what changes between runs.
- [Elicit's limitations](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757928-elicit-s-limitations.md): What Elicit does and does not do well, so you can calibrate how much to rely on it.
- [Why Elicit is different from other research tools](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757967-why-elicit-is-different-from-other-research-tools.md): This article has moved. See Getting started with Elicit.
- [Elicit's reliability: Does Elicit run the same risk of "hallucination" as other AI tools?](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14757979-elicit-s-reliability-does-elicit-run-the-same-risk-of-hallucination-as-other-ai-tools.md): How Elicit reduces hallucinations and keeps its answers traceable back to sources.
- [Privacy for uploaded papers](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758043-privacy-for-uploaded-papers.md): PDFs you upload stay private to your account and are not added to Elicit's corpus.
- [Elicit's citation count calculations](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14758044-elicit-s-citation-count-calculations.md): Where Elicit's citation counts come from and how they are calculated.
- [Changelog](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14823097-changelog.md): A running log of updates and new features in Elicit.
- [Submit a Feature Request](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14823100-submit-a-feature-request.md): Where to send feature ideas: email or the \#feature-requests channel in Elicit's Slack community.
- [Contact Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14823104-contact-elicit.md): How to reach Elicit support, and where to find Elicit on social media and Slack.
- [Elicit's Status](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/15363168-elicit-s-status.md): Check Elicit's uptime at status.elicit.com and subscribe to alerts when the status changes.

## Accounts and billing

- [Manage Your Plan and Billing](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/15113352-manage-your-plan-and-billing.md): Upgrade or change your plan, switch between monthly and annual billing, update your card in Stripe, find receipts and invoices, and cancel.
- [Save on Elicit: Annual Discount & Institutional Contracts](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759317-save-on-elicit-annual-discount-institutional-contracts.md): The annual billing discount, and how institutional contracts work.
- [Cancel Your Subscription or Delete Your Account](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759318-cancel-your-subscription-or-delete-your-account.md): How to downgrade to Basic, cancel a Scale plan, and permanently delete your account and data.
- [Elicit's Scale Plan for Teams](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759330-elicit-s-scale-plan-for-teams.md): What a Scale subscription includes, how usage is shared across the whole team, and how to create a team, invite members, and remove them.
- [Usage limits in Elicit](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/15646622-usage-limits-in-elicit.md): How Elicit's monthly usage pool works, what counts toward it, what happens when you run out, and how Extra usage is billed.
- [Academic and nonprofit pricing](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/16631472-academic-and-nonprofit-pricing.md): Discounted plans for academic users and nonprofits, and how to select academic pricing when you subscribe.
- [Add Information to Invoices or Receipts](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759335-add-information-to-invoices-or-receipts.md): Add a company address, VAT number, or tax ID to future invoices and receipts.
- [Invoice-based billing](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759339-invoice-based-billing.md): Which plans can be paid by invoice, and how institutions and enterprises are billed.
- [Elicit Payment Methods](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759344-elicit-payment-methods.md): Which cards and payment methods Elicit accepts, and what to do when a payment fails.
- [Elicit Vendor Information: Taxpayer ID, VAT Number, W-9, Sales Tax](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759345-elicit-vendor-information-taxpayer-id-vat-number-w-9-sales-tax.md): Elicit's taxpayer ID, VAT number, W-9, and sales tax details for vendor onboarding.
- [Change Your Password or Email Address](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/14759348-change-your-password-or-email-address.md): Reset your password, change the email address you sign in with, or add a password to your account.