Library resource guides: Research support essentials: Tools

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AI search tools

ChatGPT
Get instant answers, find creative inspiration, learn something new. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a free-to-use AI system that is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. Use it for engaging conversations, gain insights, automate tasks, and witness the future of AI, all in one place.
ChatGPT (iOS/Apple)
ChatGPT (Android/Google Play)

Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find insights in research papers. Unlike typical AI chatbots, Consensus is purpose-built to help you conduct effective research.

Elicit
Elicit uses language models to extract data from and summarize research papers. Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings

EvidenceHunt
EvidenceHunt is an AI-powered research platform that streamlines the process of gathering, analyzing and utilizing medical evidence. nstead of navigating through thousands of articles on PubMed or other sources, EvidenceHunt puts the medical evidence at your fingertips with the power of artificial intelligence.

Gemini
The Gemini ecosystem represents Google's most capable AI. Gemini models are built from the ground up for multimodality — reasoning seamlessly across text, images, audio, video, and code.
Gemini (Android/Google Play)

Lens
The Lens serves integrated scholarly and patent knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology enabled problem solving. Lens collaborates with the major open access scholarly and open data initiatives, and embeds their services in major global public resources like PubMed.

Litmaps
Litmaps changes the way researchers discover articles and conduct research. Instead of the traditional methods using keyword search and sifting through references, Litmaps uses the citation network to discover literature that's easily overlooked with other search methods.

Perplexity
Perplexity AI is a research/conversational search engine that unlocks the power of knowledge with information discovery and sharing. From basic facts to tough questions—and get answers from up-to-date sources. Create code, summarize articles, or emails—all in one place.
Perplexity (iOS/Apple)
Perplexity (Android/Google Play)

You.com
You.com, is an AI-powered search and web browser designed to deliver the best results fast. You.com offers access to advanced AI capabilities to generate text, summarize content, create stunning images, develop code, and much more
You.com AI Search and Browse (iOS/Apple)
You.com AI Search and Browse (Android/Google Play)

Covidence

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Covidence is an easy-to-use web-based tool that assists in streamlining the production of systematic reviews.

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Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers

Open Access Australasia: Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers
The toolkit is designed to guide researchers through the process of making their journal articles Open Access.

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