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<p class="MsoNormal">Proquest says they will have an AI assistant<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2024/proquest-part-of-clarivate-launches-ai-powered-research-assistant/">ProQuest, launches AI-powered research assistant</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 11, 2025 9:56 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] Keeping on top of AI search options on major platforms<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Erika Boardman, UNC Charlotte</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi, all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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;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;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;color:black">Proquest's Research platform doesn't have one yet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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;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;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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are also looking at
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Consensus.app</a> 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;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;color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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