LibGuides: AI for Library Research: Tools

These AI powered tools can assist you with your library research.

These resources are Internet based and not affiliated with the D'Youville Library. They are free to use, but may contain optional premium features.

This is alphabetical listing, not ranked, as each tool has slightly different functions.

Andi Search
Andi is an AI powered search engine mixed with a chatbot. It will provide answers to your questions along with search results. Screenshots of each page are provided in the results.
ChatPDF
ChatPPF uses AI to analyze PDF documents that users upload. It generates easy to read summaries of sentences, paragraphs or whole articles. ChatPDF helps to quickly extract and understand complex research information.
Consensus AI
Consensus is an AI powered search engine for academic research papers. Use natural language questions or phrases to search. It can provide a short answer with a list of related research. The tool creates an easy to read summary for each article that it provides.
Elicit
The Elicit AI search tool adds your results to a customizable table that allows you to quickly compare various studies. Adjust columns based on the data that you would like to extract and compare. Column options for comparing studies include methodology, outcomes, interventions, study design and many, many more. Elicit also create and easy to read summary for each article.
Explain Paper
AI tool that helps readers understand academic research papers. Upload research as pdfs and highlight complex text. Explain Paper will quickly create an easy to read summary of the highlighted area. It will also provide links to related resources for additional information. The free version gives you unlimited highlight explanations and followup questions.
Liner
Liner is an AI assistant designed to simplify the research process for college students and other researchers. It creates answers based on trusted websites and academic papers. Results include clear links to sources used.
Perplexity
Perplexity is a tool that creates short articles as answers to your search queries instead of generating a list of results. It includes links to the sources used to generate each article and includes links to related questions for further investigation.
Quillbot
Quillbot is an AI that can improve your writing. It can suggest new phrases and sentences, correct your grammar or translate your words into another language. It can also create citations in several styles from the titles of books and articles.
Research Rabbit
A different kind of search tool to help you expand your research beyond keyword searching. Just add your favorite articles to Research Rabbit and it will find similar papers and authors to explore.
Semantic Scholar
AI powered search engine for scientific literature. It creates easy to read summaries of research articles in the search results. It also includes links to "works cited" and "cited by" articles making it easier to do comprehensive literature searches.