AI Research Assistant
We present a selection of AI tools suitable for information searching and professional text analysis.
ProQuest Central – AI Research Assistant
www.proquest.com
Basic information:
- document content analysis (data exclusively from the displayed document) – summary, main outputs, related documents,
- literature review,
- free (part of the UWB license for ProQuest Central).
JSTOR – AI Research Tool (Beta version)
jstor.org
Basic information:
- content analysis of the displayed document – summary, key ideas, related topics and documents,
- log in with a personal account ( Google account),
- free (part of the UWB license to JSTOR).
Note: currently, the content of Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley and Oxford University Press is excluded from the research tool – in negotiations.
Summon – AI Research Assistant (Beta version)
zcu.summon.serialssolutions.com
Basic information:
- literature review in all available information sources at UWB,
- summary from the five most relevant documents,
- free (part of the UWB license to Summon).
NotebookLM
notebooklm.google.com
Basic information:
- AI research assistant,
- analysis of provided documents, texts, videos from various sources (e.g. GoogleDocs, text files, PDF, websites, YouTube videos, etc.) and generation of summaries, study materials, podcasts,
- terms and conditions: for Google Workspace for Education users (Gapps classroom is included), uploaded videos, questions, and answers are not used to train AI models,
- free.
SciSpace
scispace.com
Basic information:
- find and explore academic papers,
- summary from the five most relevant documents,
- summaries, methods, conclusions, and importance for practice for individual documents,
- copilot to explain selected parts of the text, tables, and graphs,
- PDF to video, AI Writer (text writing support), paraphrase,
- Czech support,
- basic version is free (no export options, document limit); premium version: 12 USD/month.