Ask AI to provide information related to a topic you might be interested in but are unfamiliar.
Ask AI to assist you in narrowing topic ideas for a research paper or identify keywords for searching in library databases.
AI can help you break down and understand a complex concept or assignment.
A number of AI tools can summarize or outline articles freely available online.
The library resource, JSTOR is currently testing an AI Interactive Research tool
You can ask multiple questions without being judged.
**Be sure to fact check responses with non-AI sources
**Don't share any personal information.
AI may make up credible-sounding citations to sources that do not exist, or give inaccurate information.
Several of our resources are integrating AI technology, but for now, it is best to use the Library's Enterprise One Search or one of the Library's Databases
Most AI tools including literature search tools such as Research Rabbit or Elicit do not have access to the full range or full text of articles that are behind a paywall.
**Using the library resources will give access to millions of articles that are not currently available to AI tools.
There has been a lot of conversation about AI limitations related to ethics, privacy, bias, labor and environmental impact.
AI tools can only produce results based on the data they have been trained on. Some free AI tools do not currently include current events and may only reference datasets prior to 2022.
Asking for any information that would have dire consequences if it was incorrect (such as health, financial, legal advice, and so on). This is because of AI's tendency to sometimes make up answers, but still sound very confident
Empowers students, faculty, researchers, and librarians to expand their research and unearth new avenues for discovery within JSTOR's extensive collection. Click the title above for more information and introduction video.
A multifunctional research assistant with a free basic tier. Currently searches 125 million items from Semantic Scholar's open access full text content. Extracts information from PDFs, allows PDF upload, and has a Zotero integration.
When responding to a prompt, Elicit will find papers related to your question, reads the abstract, and generates a customized summary intended to help you evaluate the usefulness of the paper.
"Elicit does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper. It tends to work less well for identifying facts (e.g. 'How many cars were sold in Malaysia last year?') and in theoretical or non-empirical domains." (Elicit, 10/2024)
Caution: Users should not upload PDF content created by others without their permission.
"A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature." (Semantic Scholar, 10/2024)
"TLDRs (Too Long; Didn't Read) are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a paper, generated using expert background knowledge and NLP techniques, available for nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology, and medicine." (Semantic Scholar, 10/2024)
"Semantic Scholar covers all STM and SSH disciplines including biology, medicine, computer science, geography, business, history, and economics." (Semantic Scholar, 10/2024)