LibGuides: Educational Leadership & Policy Studies (ELPS): AI for Research and Education

AI for Research

NOTE: Always defer to your instructor's policies on the use of AI, before using it to assist you with coursework.

The selected list of tools below provide search and summary of research articles and data. Resources identified by the tools may or may not be available through the University Library catalog.

Elicit (free/paid)
Modeled on the Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus. Works best for empirical domains with concrete results, less so for specific data questions. Has FAQ.
Semantic Scholar (free)
Modeled on the Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus of over 200 million academic papers covering all academic disciplines. Has FAQ.
Consensus (free/paid)
Modeled on the Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus of over 200 million academic papers covering all academic disciplines. Best with specific questions, and yes/no questions. Has FAQ.
Scite (paid)
Indexes publishers content and preprint servers for millions of research articles. Offers Chrome browser extension and Assistant. Has FAQ.
ExplainPaper
Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation. We make research papers easy to read.
Perplexity.ai
This is a generative AI tool that gives links to its sources! Perplexity can answer a wide range of questions, from simple factual queries to complex open-ended questions. It can also generate different creative text formats of text content. I can summarize articles and web pages or explore topics in depth with guided AI searches.

NOTE: AI content can be inaccurate, misleading, or bias. Please review all sources and data referenced by AI tools before using them in your work.

Educational AI Tools

AI Resources

Chat BA
AI created presentation based on a prompt.
Packback
Instructive AI product. "A writing assistant for every student and a grading assistant for every instructor…made possible by AI.

Packback is the pioneer of Instructional AI. Packback’s mission is to empower every student to be fearlessly curious, develop strong writing skills, and find their unique voice. The Packback “Digital TA” AI powers our award-winning discussion platform, Packback Questions, and our AI writing feedback platform, Deep Dives."
Chat GPT
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a large language model-based chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022, that enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and replies, known as prompt engineering, are considered at each conversation stage as a context. (description from Wikipedia)
Curipod
Plan and deliver interactive lessons on any topic - with help from AI