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

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There’s also one in JSTOR, though it has not been made available to all customers. Clarivate platforms & Ex Libris’s Primo have various things, in addition to the ProQuest ones; since these are all ultimately owned by Clarivate, they are largely the same.

Note that the Oxford AI/LLM tools cannot be disabled, unlike most others.

Conveniently, a handful of us over here at the Five College Consortium wrote a survey article about the state of things. Note that we assembled the info in ~March, so there may be changes or new ones we don’t account for. You can read it at JERL<https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2025.2497738> or the OA version<https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/56727> in UMass’s institutional repository.

I’ll note, too, that the Boolean AI/LLM tools all use the LLM to turn the natural language search terms into Boolean, and then run that Boolean string (which, depending on the platform, you can or cannot see or edit) through their search algorithm and index as usual. It’s worth keeping that in mind as you evaluate them vs. conventional Boolean and vendor’s existing search algorithms.


Jaime Taylor
Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts

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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 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!

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