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Health Sciences Librarian

Angela Spencer

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Notes regarding using AI

Please remember:

1) NO AI tool is directly connected to the Internet. Yes most tools you access via the Internet, but the script itself is not directly connected with the Internet.

2) AI can NOT look past a paywall (journal / database site) OR a firewall (private organization).

3) All AI has some bias

4) AI generated information is not reproducible

5) You need to evaluate your results - are they accurate? what is the source? Is it using information that is copyrighted? Is it plagiarising a source?

6) See if the site states where it is pulling its data or how the script was built.

7 ) All AI is subject to what it finds. The actual papers may have been retracted, or from a predatory publisher, or from a preprint.

8) I recommend that you use the sites to get started but please seek out a librarian for help. Most library databases are proprietary.

list of AI tools

This list is not exhaustive.

Most of these are using data from PubMed or Semantic Scholar. https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Carrot2
Free
You can visual representation of where items overlap or are adjacent
Can search PubMed
See there about page - https://search.carrot2.org/#/about
Connected Papers
Type in a topic, or DOI or PMID and see a visual representation of articles similar. 5 graphs per month for free.
See https://www.connectedpapers.com/about
Consensus
Can ask a question and it will search
Need an account
https://consensus.app/home/blog/welcome-to-consensus/
Elicit
ask a question and it will give 8 papers and their abstract
https://elicit.org/faq
EvidenceHunt
type in a question and it will give you snippets from PubMed abstracts and a search query (most of the queries are something you would want to use in PubMed)
https://evidencehunt.com/about
LitMaps
type in a keyword and it will give you papers
if you click on one of the abstracts it will show you visually a linear map of related papers
https://www.litmaps.com/about
Open Knowledge Maps
Type in a query and this will show papers but also a visual overlap (circle diagrams)
could be good for finding relevant concepts
https://openknowledgemaps.org/about
OpenMD
Think of this as a combined PubMed and Google search
Sources found were reputable (.org, JAMA, AAMC, etc)
Just pulling from Open Access journals/information
See their sources here - https://openmd.com/site/sources
Indexing - https://openmd.com/site/content
PapersHive
Searches PubMed, Clinical Trials and other biomedical sources.
liked that it could possibly identify Medical Subject Headings, top authors and more
https://papershive.com/about-papershive
Perplexity AI
type a search and it will give you answers
it did not find citations - but did show links to possible articles
https://perplexity-ai.notion.site/Perplexity-FAQs-0a9141bdd1b94c76b955e892f73451ff
R Discovery
Requires an account
Pay for some of the options
Could find owner but doesn't say anything about the model/script
Can get you a few papers on a topic, and add additional topics but most were looking at keywords and not always on target. Starting concepts are broad.
Scispace
Login is helpful
Ask a question and it finds literature and synthesizes it.
Not sure how it determines top 5 - would be cautious about the synthesis.
See - https://typeset.io/t/about/
Scite
Only a 7 day free trial
From what I can determine it gives you snippets on the paper.
Semantic Scholar
Free
Similar to SCOPUS and Web of Science in that you see the cited literature
See https://www.semanticscholar.org/about
Stork
Requires an account
Options you can pay for
You can enter a topic and it will find papers and email updates.
No about information.