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AI Tools for Research

A guide to help you understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support your academic research

Elicit

Key features of Elicit

Access: Limited free access, requires registration.

Subject Coverage: Currently strongest in biomedical, psychological, and social science topics.

User Friendliness: May not be as beginner-friendly and may appeal more to advanced researchers. The platform’s dynamic growth can make it challenging for users to stay up to date.

Output: Extracts specific information from papers and organizes it into customizable tables for easy comparison and analysis.

Refinement: You can ask follow-up questions about the research, allowing for deeper exploration of specific topics within the literature. 

First time users are advised to use the Find Papers option, rather than the Research Report option, which is currently the default option. While useful, it can be slow and overwhelm some.