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AI Tools in Library Databases

A description of the AI tools available in the library's databases, and their capabilities.

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AI Tools from Ovid

AI Article Summary

Ovid's AI Article Summary generates the main points and key takeaways from a full text article.

"AI Article Summary" is available in: Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection

This feature is available only for proprietary Lippincott journals.

  • On the search results screen, click the "Ovid Full Text" link to bring up the full record.

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Click the "AI Article Summary" link (if available) to generate the article summary.

ovid full text screen


See the example summary below.

article summary screen


The AI Article Summary is also available in the PDF viewer.

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See the example summary in the PDF viewer below.

ai summary in pdf viewer


Video overview of the AI Article Summary


Under the Hood

What powers Ovid's AI tool?

Ovid’s “AI Article Summary” tool uses proprietary generative artificial intelligence to create concise, structured summaries of full-text scholarly articles. The tool is integrated directly into the Ovid platform and processes only Ovid’s proprietary Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal content. While the company emphasizes prompt engineering and clinical expert review to ensure trustworthy and clinically salient output, they do not currently disclose the specific large language model vendor used on the backend. The tool does not draw from open web data, and outputs are produced solely from the article text, indicating a closed, domain-specific generative AI implementation.

AI-assisted, human-verified text