What are AI search tools?

• AI search tools use machine learning or large language models (LLMs) to discover articles and generate summaries.
• AI tools can use a variety of different freely available sources to provide an answer. These sources can vary from unverified blogs to published medical literature.
• It's important to confim that citations and summaries generated from AI search tools are accurate.

How to use AI search tools as part of a literature search

• At the start of research
  • to quickly gain an overview of topic and identify gaps in research.
• After scholarly database searching
  • to export reference lists and cited by papers from key evidence.
  • to find evidence outside of scholarly databases. 

AI Search Tools

Use the decision matrix to choose the AI search tool tool that suits your needs. The library has graded these tools based on ease of use, functionality, and reliability of the sources.