Generative AI in Databases
Many of Gleeson Library's subscription databases are adding Generative AI and other AI tools to help you search, summarize, and analyze the information you find. This guide identifies the AI tools currently available in our databases, and briefly shows you how to use them.
Tip: These AI tools in most cases are not meant as a substitute for traditional search methods with hands-on selection of results; a substitute for reading documents yourself; or a substitute for analyzing and synthesizing information yourself. But they are intended to assist you in these tasks, and hopefully to make them more effective and efficient.
- Click on the database publisher links below (or in the menu) for information on how to access and use the various AI tools.
- A list of all of our AI-enabled databases follows at the bottom of this page.
Types of AI Tools
1. Analysis and synthesis of search results
AI tools that analyze or synthesize information will typically accept a natural language query, and return an analysis or overview of the topic based on the documents or information within the database, similar to the summaries and bullet points from chatbots like ChatGPT.
Available from:
2. Search assistance
AI tools that assist in database searching will typically accept a natural language query, and translate it into a more effective search using boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). This can be useful for complex searches or searches where identifying effective keywords is difficult.
Available from:
- CAS (SciFinder)
- EBSCO (databases such as Fusion, CINAHL, and Academic Search Complete—see full list below)
- JSTOR
- Oxford (OED, Oxford Handbooks, Very Short Introductions)
3. Document summaries
AI tools that provide document summaries can help make choosing relevant articles from a results list more efficient.
Available from:
- EBSCO (selected databases such as Fusion, CINAHL, and Academic Search Complete—see full list below)
- IBISWorld
- JSTOR
- Ovid (Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection)
- ProQuest (Dissertations & Theses Global and ProQuest One Business)
4.Other
Tools that do not fall into the three primary categories.
Plagiarism and AI content chekcer
Available from:
- Clarivate (RefWorks)
AI Tools in Databases