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GenAI-powered search engines
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Productivity tools to retrieve full texts
Introducing GenAI-powered search engines, brought to you by the Libraries, that allow you to search in natural language - powerful enough to quickly get you started on your research!
Perplexity is a free AI-powered "conversational answer engine" that is perfect for brainstorming, understanding a topic from multiple angles, or when your search isn't limited to academic literature. It synthesizes information from the entire Internet, covering news sites, reports, and academic sources all at once.
What you need to know when using Perplexity:
Perplexity's "Focus" feature allows you to narrow your search to specific content sources like web, academic papers, social media, etc.
Do remember to check out the golden mine of Sources, which are evidences that supported Perplexity's search. A gentle note for you: Do verify the AI-generated information before you use it, and you can trace the claims to their sources to investigate!
Just click on the citations to trace claims to their sources.
How to use Scite?
Enter your research question in natural language, and hit the Go button.
Scite will use AI to generate a summary to address your research question. Within the summary, there are citations pointing to references retrieved on the right-hand side. A gentle note for you: Do verify the AI-generated information before you use it!
Introducing productivity tools that help you efficiently retrieve full texts, as long as they are available within our library subscriptions.
Wondering if you have full text access to the articles found on Google Scholar? Turn on the Find it @ SMU Libraries link in your Google Scholar to ease your research.
When the Find it @ SMU Libraries link is not available, try clicking the Try SMU Libraries button if you see it:
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension and is currently compatible with major browsers e.g., Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, and Vivaldi. Install it on your browser following these steps:
Note: If you’re using Chrome to install these extensions, please make sure you’ve signed in Google using your personal account instead of your SMU account.
