Many academic databases now incorporate AI-enhanced features, offering fast and credible resources. Here we will highlight key AI capabilities available in academic databases that open new possibilities to accelerate your research workflow.
In addition to other independent AI tools that perform research discovery and support more stages of the research process as well.
Explore these resources to enhance the quality and speed of your research.
Note: When using AI tools from non-academic databases, always apply critical judgment, understand how the content was generated, verify original sources, and assess whether it is appropriate to incorporate these materials into your work.
Scopus AI:
Scopus AI combines trusted, peer-reviewed content with sophisticated AI to deliver faster, deeper insights built for academic workflows.
Scopus AI uses natural language processing to generate summaries with references based on Scopus’s collection of abstracts.
View the summary and Expanded summary
When you run a query, Scopus AI consolidates abstracts from relevant documents to generate a topic summary. From the summary, you can view and export references. The Expanded summary provides advanced understanding for your query.
View the Concept map
To show a visual map of the search results and explore their relationships with other concepts.
View Topic Experts
to view leading researchers related to your query.
View Emerging themes
To identify research directions and categorize them into established, rising and novel themes based on your query.
Deep Research
Deep Research helps users explore a topic in more depth by supporting a more detailed review of relevant Scopus content. Users should review the supporting references and use Scopus AI output as a starting point for further research.
Access: https://www.scopus.com/pages/home#scopus-ai
Web of Science Research Assistant
This GenAI powered tool provides natural language search, visualizations and guided tasks to enhance your research and explore literature faster based on the Web of Science Core Collections – including references to the source material.
The tool offers:
Access: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/research-assistant
An AI-powered research tool that combines generative AI experience with a large peer-reviewed literature content from Elsevier and content licensing partners including BMJ Group, IOP Publishing, NEJM Group and Sage Publishing, plus 1,000+ other providers to support knowledge discovery and analysis. It supports research across a wide range of disciplines, including STEM, health sciences, social sciences
Built on Elsevier’s Responsible AI principles, LeapSpace is designed to evolve over time.
Key features included:
Begin your search
Ask your question or describe your request in a natural, conversational manner.
File upload
Upload and analyze your own papers, notes or reports to LeapSpace then ask questions to connect your content with wider scholarly literature. Files are private, and only available to the individual user.
Deep research
Generate deep research reports that go beyond summarizing existing information for your question to a detailed research plan.
Discover experts
Search for authors, relevant collaborators, mentors and topic contributors.
Find funding
Discover funding opportunities at many government and private funding organizations based on the sector you are working in.
Writing Coach
Is the drafting workspace built for researchers where they can enhance their writings (paragraph, manuscript, abstract,…) by starting a conversation with the coach to check your claim against latest research or provide suggestions to strengthen your argument.
Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/leapspace/
Proquest Research Assistant uses AI to enhance academic research, engage with content more deeply and explore new topics with confidence based on the extensive collection of ProQuest databases.
The AI features will not appear with documents under 150 words and on documents from certain publishers that have decided not to participate.
The AI powered features are:
Search
By suggesting additional related terms that you can add to your initial query to get more relevant results.
Key takeaways
Understanding quickly what this document is about and its relation to your search.
Findings and conclusions
Generating relevant quotes that reflect the document’s findings with a summary based on these quotes.
Essential details
Highlighting critical elements within a document.
Important concepts
A list of important concepts and their explanations extracted from the document to show why the term is relevant to the document.
Topic visualizations
Offers an interactive mind map to explore topics and subtopics within a document.
Related research topics
This feature suggests potential topics that the user might be interested in to expand their knowledge about the subject and they are extracted exclusively from the text of the document.
Chat with a Document feature
Ask questions about documents and receive answers based on that document’s content.
Access is made through www.ekb.eg then click on English sources and go to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
JSTOR’s interactive research tool designed to enhance—not replace—the research process and helps users engage more deeply with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. The tool works with journal articles, book chapters, and research reports on JSTOR. It does not yet support images, audio, video, and text-based primary sources.
Accessing JSTOR’s AI-enabled features requires a personal account to sign in alongside the University Login.
Use it to:
Semantic search
It helps you find relevant content and shows automatically, on the right side of the screen, how your search terms relate to the document you are viewing.
Ask questions and get answers
Using natural language to ask questions in the chat box about the document you’re viewing, and the tool will only answer questions based on the item itself.
What is this text about?
By highlighting key points from the Identify relevant material faster by surfacing key points and arguments from full-text documents text.
Show related content
Suggests items in JSTOR that contain similarities in text, or you can highlight a specific section of the document and click find related content.
Recommended topics
Suggests key concepts that are relevant to the text to explore further research.
Cite / Download conversation history
To keep a record of your interaction or generate citations for the tool and cite specific responses before leaving the item page since the tool displays your current conversation for up to 3 hours
Access: http://ezproxy.bue.edu.eg:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/
