[Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] Keeping on top of AI search options on major platforms

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Proquest says they will have an AI assistant

ProQuest, launches AI-powered research assistant<https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2024/proquest-part-of-clarivate-launches-ai-powered-research-assistant/>


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Hi,

The only other two I made note of (at least a month or so ago) were Oxford Academic (which was/is in Beta and is already enabled) and Oxford English Dictionary.

Erika Boardman, UNC Charlotte

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Hi, all.
Our team here at UPEI is doing an internal analysis to decide if we want to enable the new EBSCO "AI Natural Language search" option in EDS.

That got me looking at our other platforms to see what options we have.
From what I can find:
Proquest's Research platform doesn't have one yet
Elsevier has them on Scopus and Sciencedirect but they cost extra (separately for each platform)
Wiley doesn't have one yet.

That's as far as I've got. We are looking at AI tools as an alternative to boolean search, not options to create AI summaries of the search results, which we frankly consider worse than useless in an educational context.

We are also looking at Consensus.app<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fConsensus.app&c=E,1,qRsCaAYJBeE4v8y3K9Dlk1EmrJLT1-UpAGpHZNO6dDzGMBuGLn1gVAiQgbG4mk2U4hhuu5rlNglarIq6R5tGcGtzvlERyhBywgxLQL0PgysR&typo=1&ancr_add=1> which so far seems to do this well on their own platform, but costs extra and wouldn't be integrated with EDS, our discovery platform.

Does anyone have a list of major academic publisher/aggregator platforms that have a free AI search option that may need to be deliberately enabled?

Thanks!

Melissa Belvadi
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