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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ithaka has an
<a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-product-tracker/">Generative AI Product Tracker</a>. Discovery tools like those offered by vendors are toward the bottom of the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Electronic Resources Officer, Associate Professor<br>
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University Libraries<br>
120E Libraries Tech Center<br>
1165 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212<br>
614-247-7461 <br>
<a href="mailto:foster.1037@osu.edu"><span style="color:#BA0C2F;background:white">foster.1037@osu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 11, 2025 11:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list' <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] [EXT] Keeping on top of AI search options on major platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hi Melissa, I’m not 100% on which tools they have but I did pull together a list based on something on this listserv a while back (+ one we got a marketing update
from) of platforms with AI, which might be a place to start? Proquest JSTOR EBSCO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi Melissa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m not 100% on which tools they have but I did pull together a list based on something on this listserv a while back (+ one we got a marketing update from) of platforms with
AI, which might be a place to start?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Proquest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">JSTOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">EBSCO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scopus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Primo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Britannica Academic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">financial times online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nexis Uni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Statista<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chronicle of Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oxford Academic/English Dictionary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ovid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ari Romero</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Licensing and Accessibility Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University of North Texas Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>>
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<b>To:</b> ERIL-L listserv <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] [Eril-l] Keeping on top of AI search options on major platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi, all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">That got me looking at our other platforms to see what options we have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From what I can find:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Elsevier has them on Scopus and Sciencedirect but they cost extra (separately for each platform)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Wiley doesn't have one yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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