Library General Reference: Artificial Intelligence: Using AI for Research

Elicit

Elicit uses machine learning to help you with your research: find papers, extract key claims, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and more. Elicit can be useful for finding credited papers based on questions that are input to the search bar. It can also be used to create a list of concepts based off of a search. Create a free account to receive 5,000 credits towards Elicit's services.

Keenious

Keenious is a new type of academic search engine that recommends relevant research papers by analyzing your document with powerful artificial intelligence algorithms. You can use Keenious by inputting a search into the search bar, inputting your paper to receive recommendations on related research or uploading a research paper you have already found to find related papers. Keenious can also be added as a sidebar attachment to your Microsoft Word or Google Docs document to aid in your writing. Keenious is a free resource that does not require an account to use its services.

SciSpace

A science-based research tool to find, understand, and learn research papers. For every paper you read, get simple explanations and answers from AI and discover a network of connected and relevant papers — all in one place. SciSpace allows you to find papers by inputting searches. It also has a "copilot" tool that can help explain difficult parts of a paper that you may not understand. Create a free account for limited searches and copilot messages.

ChatPDF

ChatGPT but for research papers. Upload a paper and start asking it questions. Try searching for main ideas of papers or even ask for direct quotes from the article. Create a free account to input two pdfs a day and ask twenty questions a day.

Semantic Scholar 

Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.

Litmaps

From a single paper, Litmaps generates a map of the most relevant articles that relate to your seed paper. The most recent articles appear on the right, the most cited articles appear at the top and the lines show the citations in-between.

In order to get the most useful response out of an a chatbot like ChatGPT, you need to ask it the right kind of question in the right way. This is prompt engineering. 

Best practices for prompt engineering with OpenAI API

Prompt engineering for educators – making generative AI work for you - from The University of Sydney 

Guidance and regulation of the use of AI for scholarly research is still in early stages. Pay attention to the decisions and statements issued by your field to determine if there will be issues with a particular use of AI. 

Some sample commentary / statements:

AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts - from the Scholarly Kitchen 

Guidance on the use of AI in research - from the University of Utah  

ChatGPT is fun, but not an author - from Science 

The use of AI and AI-assisted writing technologies in scientific writing - FAQ's from Elsevier 

Taylor & Francis Clarifies the Responsible use of AI Tools in Academic Content Creation

Guidance for Authors, Peer Reviewers, and Editors on Use of AI, Language Models, and Chatbots - from JAMA

The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies is Prohibited for the NIH Peer Review Process

Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence - A Rule by the Copyright Office, Library of Congress on 03/16/2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - from Springer 

Wiley has a section on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content in their Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics