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What is Elicit?
Elicit: The AI Research Assistant
Elicit is an AI tool to find 'seed articles' to mine for keywords/subject headings. When you enter a question, it returns alternate questions that can lead to further "seed" articles.
Elicit was developed by the company Ought.
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Searching Features:
- Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review.
- Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
- While answering questions with research is the main focus of Elicit, there are also other research tasks that help with brainstorming, summarization, and text classification.
- You can save and export your work to citation managers such as Zotero.
How to Search on Elicit
Elicit Resources
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All materials posted are borrowed from the OUWB Medical Library.
