The Research Assistant is available on and off campus to current employees, enrolled students, and visitors with My Account access.
Public walk-in users may use the Research Assistant at any guest computer. Guest computers are located in HSSE, MATH, VETM and WALC.
Library Search AI Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered tool designed to streamline time-intensive tasks. It enables users to query academic content in natural language and utilizes the breadth of our library to pinpoint five resources (journal articles, dissertations, or eBooks) that can aid in answering users' questions. The tool distills the most pertinent information from the descriptions/abstracts of each resource to craft the response's overview that includes in-line references to the sources to provide transparency in how each source contributed to the response. Beneath the overview, these sources and additional sources are available for further exploration of the subject and for verifying the tool's responses.
Research Assistant functionalities include:
