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Searching for Scholarly Articles

Some basics on finding relevant articles.

Selected AI-based tools

Disclaimer: UCQ doesn't subscribe to any of these tools. These are some tools to aid with your information search; however, it is important for you to critically evaluate and use your information literacy skills to locate the best available evidence.

ELICIT.ORG

Elicit is a research assistant using language models like GPT-3 to automate parts of researchers’ workflows. Currently, the main workflow in Elicit is Literature Review. If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.

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How to search: Enter a research question or keywords about your topic

CONSENSUS.APP

Consensus is built by machine learning, science, and technology experts from some of the world’s most innovative institutions. Their vision is to searching for vetted, unbiased information has long been an arduous and painful process.

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How to search: Enter a research question or keywords about your topic

ChatGPT

Login- required How to search: Enter a research question or keywords about your topic

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI

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How to search: Enter your research question or topic to generate keywords and synonymsBe aware that the citation and references provided by chatGPT often do not exist

ResearchRabbit

Using a seed article, you can find connected articles by citation or topic. The platform finds similar articles and shows them as bubbles connected to the main topic. This visual map helps you discover more connections in different subjects and keeps you updated with new publications.

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SemanticScholar

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI.

Free to use

Scite.Ai

Ask simple questions and get reliable answers from the full-texts of millions of article