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.