Research and Course Guides: 10 Step AI Challenge: Step 4: Using AI to Find Sources

AI Tools for Research

You have seen how AI can be used to generate text as well as outlines for your project, now let's see what it can do to help you find sources.

Let’s get started!

Create a list of resources about a topic of your choice that includes books, articles, and media.

Clemson Libraries Research Assistant
This AI powered tool will help you search the library catalog for resources on your topic
scite_
Free for Clemson students and employees, scite_ is an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim. Use scite assistant to help generate outlines or bodies of text.
JSTOR AI
Clemson is part of a Beta version of JSTORs AI tool. This allows users to interact with JSTOR content and get recommendations for further reading. Requires the creation of a free JSTOR account.
Research Rabbit
unlocks a completely novel way to search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues. Requires free registration.
Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature

Did you notice anything missing in the list of sources that you were able to find? Were they all books? All articles?
How did you determine if the sources were reliable?

Congratulations! You’ve completed Step 4 of the AI Challenge, trying out different AI tools to create a list of reliable sources.

Next, we’ll look more at generative AI tools as they relate to different disciples of study. See you you can find YOUR major!