AI Tools for Academic Research:
Library Databases with AI Features

Generate AI Insights

• When full-text articles are available, the Generate AI Insights (beta) button may appear beside the Access Options button.
• The button only appears for resources that include a direct full-text file as an access option. Additionally, the publisher must have agreed to opt-in to having this feature enabled for the selected item.
• Clicking the button initiates the AI Insights feature. The Insights are generally 2-5 bullet points that are identified as highlights or important points from the article.
• The Generate AI Insights function has been rolled out across all EBSCO databases. However, it will appear sporadically in various databases due to publishers opting-out from the feature.

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Natural Language Search Mode

• Natural Language Search Mode can be enabled in the Search Options tab on the Advanced Search screen. It can also be enabled by toggling the slider on the Basic Search/Search Results screen.
• The show refined query link on the Search Results screen will show what Boolean search was performed behind-the-scenes to return the results.
• This mode can be enabled or disabled at any time during a search.

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JSTOR's AI Research Tool

• Chat with Your Results: Click on the title of an article or chapter to access the full-text, and JSTOR's AI Interactive research tool window opens alongside the article text. First, the text in the window explains the AI tool and offers buttons for specific functions it can perform including Summarize, Show related content, etc. A blank "Ask a question" box allows users to direct the AI to extract specific information in response to prompts. Users can download their conversation including the generated output.
• The image shows a report titled "Regulating the use of generative AI in education" and the AI-generated summary produced by the Interactive Research tool, plus additional suggested questions or prompts for the AI.
• Note: You need to set up a free, individual JSTOR log-in and access Workspace to have these features available to you.

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Semantic Results Mode

• Semantic Results: Search using AI capabilities that look at a broader range of relationships among topics to retrieve relevant results. Unlike with traditional keyword searches, the Semantic Results search mode returns only the "top 25 results."
• Selecting the Semantic Results option activates the AI-enabled search. Users can offer feedback when using the Semantic Results search mode.
• The image shows a sample search for "generative ai in education" using the Semantic Results mode.

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Research AI

• Chat with the Data: Research AI can be accessed via the button on the toolbar menu. It can be enabled or disabled via the Research AI Chat toggle button.
• Research AI includes a "tl;dr" ("too long; didn't read") summary to address the tool's main findings. It also returns statistics based on the source data in a summary table.
• Sources for Research AI's claims are included in the right-hand sidebar and as links within the response for quick fact-checking of accuracy.
• The example images show the response to the query "rate of generative artificial intelligence usage in higher education."

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Gale Topic Finder

• Gale Topic Finder: Enter a keyword or simple search phrase into the Topic Finder and identify frequently co-occurring keywords and topic areas.
• The image shows Topic Finder activated as tiles for a search on concussion AND sports.
• The size of the tiles suggests how often the words appeared in the results. NewRx, Football, Athletes, and Brain Injury are examples of the words that are shown in the different-colored tiles.
• Related subtopics appear in the larger topic tiles.

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• Topic Finder runs a group of your top search results' titles, subjects, and first 100 words through an algorithm to retrieve results. The keywords that appear most often in these results are then featured in the visualization.

Gale Translate

• Gale databases also have a built-in language translator which allows for translation of the article text into around 50 languages and a read aloud function.
• The image shows the report "Are Sex Differences in Collegiate and High School Sports-Related Concussion Reflected in the Guidelines? A Scoping Review." Below the Author, Publication, and Document Type information, a tool bar is available that offers options for increasing or decreasing the text size, translating the article, or reading it aloud. A user can also change the language of the overall interface, so that options to download, print, etc., would appear in their language of choice.

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OED AI Search Assistant

• Search the OED: The OED AI Search Assistant is available to enable in the upper-right corner of the interface.
• Questions such as "What words relating to dining entered the English language during the twentieth century?" will retrieve results from the dictionary.
• It cannot summarize or interpret the search results at this time.
• The example images show the response to the queries "How do words enter the Oxford English Dictionary?" and "What language does "testimony" come from?"

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Ask Britannica

• Ask Britannica generates short AI-generated summaries of topics covered within Britannica Library.
• A list of sources are included in the right-hand sidebar, which can be adjusted to three different reading levels.
• Additional related questions are generated based on the question in the sidebar below the sources.

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Ask Chron

• Ask The Chronicle Archives: Chron AI answers questions about higher education based on the The Chronicle of Higher Education's online archives.
• Questions such as "What enrollment trends from 2020-2024 have affected enrollment at small, private four-year institutions?" will retrieve results from articles published within that timeframe.
• Sources are included below each response from the tool to check the claims for accuracy.

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