Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSSS) announced on November 3, 2026, the integration of its Scite and Article Galaxy products with Microsoft Copilot, enabling enterprise users to access peer-reviewed scientific literature and compliant content licensing without leaving Microsoft 365.

Key Highlights

  • Two integrations launched: Scite and Article Galaxy are both now available as integrations within Microsoft Copilot, accessible via the Microsoft Marketplace.
  • Smart Citations technology: Scite's index covers peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, preprints, patents, clinical trials, and research grants, and classifies each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning the referenced work.
  • Article Galaxy coverage: According to the filing, Article Galaxy provides on-demand access to 80M+ full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles and routes requests through subscriptions, open access, or one-time purchase.
  • AI reuse rights: Article Galaxy returns reuse rights for specific uses, including generative-AI and text-and-data-mining rights at the individual-article level, according to the announcement.
  • Broader ecosystem: The filing states Scite is already linked to ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-enabled tools prior to this Copilot integration.
  • Executive commentary: CEO Roy W. Olivier stated the integrations "reflect the strategy we have built across our portfolio: connect our products to the AI tools our customers use."

Research Solutions Extends Scientific Evidence Layer Into Microsoft 365 Ecosystem

Research Solutions disclosed the simultaneous launch of two product integrations with Microsoft Copilot: Scite, its AI-powered scientific literature evaluation platform, and Article Galaxy, its compliant scientific content access platform. According to the filing, the integrations are designed to address a gap enterprise research teams have faced, having to manage evidence discovery and content licensing as separate workflows outside their primary productivity environment.

The filing describes Scite's Smart Citations as a technology that reads the full text of citing articles and classifies each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning the work it references. The platform also surfaces editorial notices such as retractions and expressions of concern, as well as regulatory and safety content including FDA 510(k) clearances, MHRA safety alerts, and FDA MAUDE adverse-event reports. Within Copilot, users can apply Scite to documents, presentations, or email threads to find evidence that supports or challenges claims contained in those materials, and can combine internal knowledge with peer-reviewed research through the Researcher agent in Copilot.

Article Galaxy's role within the integration, as described in the filing, is to check whether an organization already holds access to a paper through its subscriptions or library, what it would cost to obtain, and what the organization is permitted to do with it, including for generative-AI use. The filing notes that both integrations operate within Microsoft Copilot's security and compliance framework, described as "a requirement for the corporate and academic organizations standardized on Microsoft 365." Microsoft's Chantrelle Nielsen, identified as Principal Product Manager for Microsoft Copilot, is quoted in the filing as stating the integrations "give research teams a way to ground their work in the scientific literature and manage how that content is accessed and used."

What Was Disclosed

Research Solutions announced the availability of Scite and Article Galaxy as integrations within Microsoft Copilot, enabling enterprise research teams to access peer-reviewed literature evaluation and compliant content licensing directly inside Microsoft 365. Both integrations are listed as available now in the Microsoft Marketplace.