Yes, many of the library's research resources use artificial intelligence (AI).
In most cases, AI operates behind the scenes to inform search results and relevance ranking, or to summarize and tag documents. Examples are search and discovery systems like Scholar OneSearch, Northeastern's library catalog and discovery system, document libraries like Overton, and ebook sites like Oxford Handbooks.
Some resources offer generative and interactive AI that might analyze citations, summarize research topics and questions, suggest areas for further research, or allow you to save your work over time.
Northeastern offers these library resources with generative and interactive AI to current faculty, staff, and students:
- JSTOR
JSTOR's interactive AI Research Tool searches journal articles and texts, identifies key points, and surfaces related information. Users must create a JSTOR account with a Northeastern email to use the tool.
- Scite.ai
The "Assistant" in Scite offers natural language conversation, analyzes scientific papers as well as citing articles, helping researchers evaluate scholarly impact. Links to complete articles. Allows you to save your conversation history.
- Scopus.ai
Offers natural language conversation, assists you in retrieving and summarizing information from the multidisciplinary Scopus database. Breaks down your topic, summarizes relevant scholarship, and suggests areas of opportunity for further research. Allows you to save your conversation history. Available to users who set up and log in with a personal JSTOR account. It appears after you perform a search.
- Statista
The "Research AI" chat feature offers natural language conversation, delivers concise, written responses and insights that integrate text, statistics and infographics on a given topic. Shows concurrent searches happening at the same time, so interactions are visible to others (although they are anonymous).
Please contact your subject librarian if you have questions about training and research support with these AI-enabled resources.
