Find Articles & Make Connections
While many tools provide free access to AI-powered tools, some of the tools linked below require signing up for an account, and some require a subscription to access their most powerful features. The inclusion of these sites does not mean SCU or the University library condone or encourage their use.
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Open Knowledge Maps
The world's largest AI-based search engine for scientific knowledge. Get an overview of a topic with visualization: similar items are clustered together. Identify related concepts. Free & Open. -
Research Rabbit
Like Spotify for papers--recommendations, visualizations, collections, alerts, and sharing. Free. -
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. -
Inciteful
Start with a seed paper to discover related articles. Or, start with two papers to see how they are connected in the literature. Free & Open. -
Connected Papers
Get visual overviews of a field, and discover the most relevant prior and derivative works. Freemium. -
Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses language models to surface papers and synthesize insights from academic research papers. Freemium. -
LitMaps
Start with a seed paper to discover and visualize sources and get updates on future publications. Freemium.
Reading Assistance
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Semantic Reader
New from Semantic Scholar! An AI-Powered Augmented Scientific Reading Application. Free.
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Audemic
Access any academic research via audio. Upload PDFs, highlight, and take notes. Adjust reading speed. Dyslexic font available. Freemium. -
Humata
Asking is faster than skimming. Chat your way through long documents. Summarize PDFs. Freemium. -
Lateral
Everything you need to read and review documents efficiently. Project table view, concept creation, and document view. Freemium.